From the start of Elizabeth's reign, it was expected that she would marry and the question arose to whom.

One of the causes for this " second reign " of Elizabeth, as it is sometimes called, was the different character of Elizabeth's governing body, the privy council in the 1590s.

The first signs of a new literary movement had appeared at the end of the second decade of Elizabeth's reign, with John Lyly's Euphues and Edmund Spenser's The Shepheardes Calender in 1578.

The notion of a great Elizabethan age depends largely on the builders, dramatists, poets, and musicians who were active during Elizabeth's reign.

" Elizabeth's reign became idealised as a time when crown, church and parliament had worked in constitutional balance.

Historians of that period, such as J. E. Neale ( 1934 ) and A. L. Rowse ( 1950 ), interpreted Elizabeth's reign as a golden age of progress.

Elizabeth's government did much to consolidate the work begun under Thomas Cromwell in the reign of Henry VIII, that is, expanding the role of the government and effecting common law and administration throughout England.

Other historians say the " Tudor Revolution " really extended to the end of Elizabeth's reign, when the work was all consolidated.

Approximately 200 years after the end of Elizabeth's reign, however, a patent represents a legal obtained by an inventor providing for exclusive control over the production and sale of his mechanical or scientific invention ... the evolution of patents from royal prerogative to common-law doctrine.

Elizabeth's gifts arrived in a large 27 gun merchantman ship that Mehmed personally inspected, a clear display of English maritime strength that would prompt him to build up his fleet over the following years of his reign.

She was deposed in December in favour of her agnate, King Charles III of Hungary, but his brief reign ended with his murder at Elizabeth's instigation in February 1386.

Despite this, Elizabeth would not name Mary her heir ; as she had experienced during the reign of her predecessor Mary I, the opposition could flock around the heir if they were disheartened with Elizabeth's rule.

Numerous threats to the Tudor dynasty occurred during Elizabeth's reign.

Despite Elizabeth's government constantly begging her to marry in the early years of her reign, it was now persuading Elizabeth not to marry the French prince for his mother, Catherine de ' Medici, was suspected of ordering the St Bartholomew's Day massacre of tens of thousands of French Protestant Huguenots in 1572.

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

Hence the bogus Lopukhina Conspiracy and other attempts of Frederick the Great and Louis XV to get rid of Bestuzhev ( making the Russian court the centre of a tangle of intrigue during the earlier years of Elizabeth's reign.

In part because of this, but also because the English had been expelled from their last outposts on the continent, the centuries long conflict between France and England was largely suspended for most of Elizabeth's reign.

With taxes lower than other European countries of the period, the economy expanded ; though the wealth was distributed with wild unevenness, there was clearly more wealth to go around at the end of Elizabeth's reign than at the beginning.

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.

In Elizabeth's reign, Nicholas Hilliard, the Queen's " limner and goldsmith ," is the most widely recognized figure in this native development ; but George Gower has begun to attract greater notice and appreciation as knowledge of him and his art and career has improved.

Philippa Gregory's 2009 novel The White Queen follows a fictionalized account of Elizabeth's life from meeting her future husband, King Edward, up through the disappearance of her sons and the reign of her brother-in-law, Richard III.

During Queen Elizabeth's reign, she " encouraged the development of this supplementary navy.

To remedy this situation, and to increase his own income, Dudley effected compositions with the tenants in what Simon Adams has called an " ambitious resolution of a long-standing problem ... without parallel in Elizabeth's reign ".

For the first 30 years of Elizabeth's reign, until Leicester's death, he and Lord Burghley were the most powerful and important political figures, working intimately with the Queen.

By the autumn of 1559 several foreign suitors were vying for Elizabeth's hand ; their impatient envoys engaged in ever more scandalous talk and reported that a marriage with her favourite was not welcome in England: " There is not a man who does not cry out on him and her with indignation ... she will marry none but the favoured Robert ".

Leicester is credited for having " dislodged Oxford from the pro-French group ", i. e., the group at court which favoured Elizabeth's marriage to the Duke of Anjou.

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.

However, " farmer " is a common word, and " equivocation " was also the subject of a 1583 tract by Queen Elizabeth's chief councillor Lord Burghley, and of the 1584 Doctrine of Equivocation by the Spanish prelate Martin Azpilcueta, which was disseminated across Europe and into England in the 1590s.

Their reacquaintance is cut short, however, by news that Lydia, Elizabeth's sister, has run away to elope with Mr Wickham.

Born Shannon Elizabeth Fadal, Elizabeth's father is of Lebanese and Syrian Arab descent and her mother is of English, Irish, German, and Cherokee ancestry.

* Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School for Boys, Barnet, England, is formed.

* June 25 – Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Horncastle, is founded in Lincolnshire, England.

Seven days later, on the orders of Elizabeth's privy council, Mary is beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle.

* March 10 – The Queen Elizabeth's Men troupe of actors is founded.

* Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn, is founded as a grammar school for boys.

The Battle, which was apparently inspired by an unidentified skirmish in Elizabeth's Irish wars, is a sequence of movements bearing titles such as ' The marche to fight ', ' The battells be joyned ' and ' The Galliarde for the victorie '.

In an earlier allegation, published by Kitty Kelley in 1997, Elizabeth's mother is said to have been a Welsh maid.

Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet is a boys ' grammar school in Barnet, North London, which was founded in 1573 by Edward Underne, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester and others, in the name of Queen Elizabeth I.

The school is also known as Queen Elizabeth's School or simply QE Boys.

The Queen rarely visited her, although Elizabeth's daughter Viscountess Welles is known to have done so more often.

Elizabeth's coronation procession: Robert Dudley is on horseback on the far left, leading the palfrey of honour.

* Elizabeth's case is different.

It is explicitly stated in a conversation between Carl Hollywood and Elizabeth's grandfather that multiple ractors were used in Elizabeth's case.