Portrait of Elizabeth to commemorate the defeat of the Spanish Armada ( 1588 ), depicted in the background.

* The " Armada Portrait " of Elizabeth I of England is created to celebrate the English defeat of the Spanish Armada and to assert the strength of Elizabeth herself.

The Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I, painted after Leicester's death.

Portrait of Elizabeth made to commemorate the defeat of the Spanish Armada ( 1588 ), depicted in the background.

:* George Gower-( The Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I, 1588 ?, one of the greatest English portraits in existence )

:* Velázquez, Diego-1 painting ( Portrait of Admiral Pulido Peraja, Captain General of the Armada Fleet of New Spain )

Portrait of Elizabeth I of England | Elizabeth made to commemorate the defeat of the Spanish Armada, depicted in the background.

The Spanish Armada fighting the England | English navy at the Naval battle of Gravelines | Battle of Gravelines in 1588

Spanish Armada | The Spanish Armada: Catholic Spain's attempt to depose Elizabeth and take control of England

August 6: Spanish Armada # Battle of Gravelines | Battle of Gravelines.

Malabar Coast of India, c. 1500, showing the path of Vasco da Gama's 4th Portuguese India Armada ( Gama, 1502 ) | 4th India Armada in 1502.

*, a class of four ships of the Colombian National Armada | Colombian Navy

The period after the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 brought new difficulties for Elizabeth that lasted the fifteen years until the end of her reign.

Thirty years later, he sent the Spanish Armada to overthrow Elizabeth, without success.

Soon after the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, London merchants presented a petition to Queen Elizabeth I for permission to sail to the Indian Ocean.

Sixtus agreed to renew the excommunication of Queen Elizabeth I of England, and to grant a large subsidy to the Armada of Philip II, but, knowing the slowness of Spain, would give nothing until the expedition actually landed in England.

The Speech to the Troops at Tilbury was delivered on 9 August Old Style, 19 August New Style 1588 by Queen Elizabeth I of England to the land forces earlier assembled at Tilbury in Essex in preparation of repelling the expected invasion by the Spanish Armada.

Even as Elizabeth rebukes the hawks ( privateers ) in her council ( both Walsingham and Sir Francis Drake ), with hopes of peace ( encouraged by Cecil, who is now Lord Burghley ), the Spanish Armada appears on the horizons of England.

Later, in 1588 Elizabeth I addressed her troops not far from the Tilbury blockhouse as the Spanish Armada sailed up the English Channel.

:: Reverse: Inspired by the " Armada " portrait of Elizabeth by George Gower, the Queen is crowned and set within a mandorla created by four decorative arches.

In 1588, Philip II of Spain sent his Spanish Armada to subdue Elizabeth I of England, but Admiral Sir Charles Howard forced its retreat, beginning the rise to prominence of the Royal Navy.

In 1588 Pope Sixtus V, in support of the Spanish Armada, renewed the solemn bull of excommunication against Queen Elizabeth I, for the regicide of Mary, Queen of Scots in 1587 as well as the previously catalogued offences against the Catholic Church.

It also contains a large carved screen at one end covering the entrance to the Vestibule ; legend says that the screen was given to the Inn by Elizabeth I while she was the Inn's patron, and is carved out of the wood of a Spanish galleon captured from the Spanish Armada.

During the Spanish Armada crisis of 1588, he assured Elizabeth of his support as " your natural son and compatriot of your country ".

* Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, the commander of the English fleets against the Spanish Armada, during the reign of Elizabeth I

July 25, 1415 marked the beginning of the Portuguese Empire, when the Portuguese Armada departed to the rich trade Islamic centre of Ceuta in North Africa with King John I and his wife Phillipa of Lancaster and their sons Prince Duarte ( future king ), Prince Pedro, Prince Henry the Navigator ( born in Porto in 1394 ) and Prince Afonso, and legendary Portuguese hero Nuno Álvares Pereira.

Both she and her sister Mary I used the palace extensively, and Elizabeth's Council planned the Spanish Armada campaign there in 1588.

Although some counties were left without lieutenants during the 1590s, following the defeat of the Spanish Armada, the office continued to exist, and was retained by James I even after the end of the war against Spain in 1604.

The keep was added to the castle in the reign of Henry I, and in the reign of Elizabeth I ; when the Spanish Armada was expected, it was surrounded by an elaborate pentagonal fortification by Sir George Carey.

During the Tudor era the downs were also in use and in particular Ditchling Beacon, which had been used as a beacon to warn of invasion in preceding centuries, was used again to warn Queen Elizabeth I of the Spanish Armada lumbering east along the English Channel.

Elizabeth I was said to have spent the night there while waiting for the Spanish Armada to sail up the channel.

According to Izacke, it was Queen Elizabeth I who suggested that the city adopt this motto ( perhaps in imitation of her own motto, Semper eadem, " Ever the same "); her suggestion is said to have come in a letter to " the Citizens of Exeter ," in recognition of their gift of money toward the fleet that had defeated the Spanish Armada.

Furthermore, it was in nearby West Tilbury that Elizabeth I rallied her makeshift army as it awaited the Armada in 1588

The rule of Mary I, the attack of the Spanish Armada, and the Great Fire of London in 1666 were other events that were important contributors to anti-Catholic sentiment and intensified Protestant hatred of Catholics, making the plot against Charles II seem believable.

In the mid-1580s, war with Spain could no longer be avoided, and when Spain finally decided to attempt to conquer England in 1588, the failure of the Spanish Armada associated her with one of the greatest victories in English history.

On 12 July 1588, the Spanish Armada, a great fleet of ships, set sail for the channel, planning to ferry a Spanish invasion force under the Duke of Parma to the coast of southeast England from the Netherlands.

In July and August 1588 England was threatened by the Spanish Armada.

He was second-in-command of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588.

On 20 August 1588 the flagship of the Spanish Armada, El Gran Grifón, was shipwrecked in the cove of Stroms Heelor, forcing its 300 sailors to spend six weeks living with the islanders.

When Spain tried to invade and conquer England it was a fiasco, and the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 associated Elizabeth's name forever with what is popularly viewed as one of the greatest victories in English history.

* Ark Royal ( 1587 ), the flagship of the English fleet during the Spanish Armada campaign of 1588.

* 1588 – Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines – English naval forces under the command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake defeat the Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines, France.

* 1588 – Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines – The Spanish Armada is sighted in the English Channel.

* 1588 – The last ship of the Spanish Armada sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel.

* 1588 – The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30, 000 men, sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel.

The repulsion of the Spanish Armada ( 1588 ) by the English fleet revolutionized naval warfare by the success of a guns-only strategy and caused a major overhaul of the Spanish Navy, partly along English lines, which resulted in even greater dominance by the Spanish.

Plymouth Hoe is perhaps best known for the probably apocryphal story that Sir Francis Drake played his famous game of bowls here in 1588 while waiting for the tide to change before sailing out with the English fleet to engage with the Spanish Armada.

The English modified their vessels to maximize their firepower and demonstrated the effectiveness of their doctrine, in 1588, by defeating the Spanish Armada.

By far the most dangerous threat to the Tudor dynasty during Elizabeth's reign was the Spanish Armada of 1588.

Gladstone urged British Catholics to reject papal infallibility as they had opposed the Spanish Armada of 1588.

An attempt by Philip II of Spain to invade England with the Spanish Armada in 1588 was famously defeated, but the tide of war turned against England with an unsuccessful expedition to Portugal and the Azores, the Drake-Norris Expedition of 1589.

The National Armada memorial in Plymouth using the Britannia image to celebrate the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588

Superior English ships and seamanship foiled the invasion and led to the destruction of the Spanish Armada in 1588, marking the high point of Elizabeth's reign.

A number of privateers were part of the English fleet that opposed the Spanish Armada in 1588.