Elizabeth I: The Fall of the Axe (TRIH ep 616, part 1)
1533 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss the early life and political context that produced Elizabeth I. They open with Edmund Spencer's The Fairy Queen and the Elizabethan golden-age image before tracing Elizabeth's precarious childhood: born in 1533 to Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, her early years were shaped by dynastic anxieties, Henry's desperate search for a male heir, and the seismic religious politics…
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Around 1533
- Eighty Years' War / Dutch Revolt (1568)
- Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519)
- Columbus reaches the Americas (1492)
- Mona Lisa (1503)
- French Wars of Religion (1562)
- Spanish conquest of the Incas (1532)
- English Reformation (1533)
- The Reformation (1517)
- Magellan-Elcano circumnavigation (1519)
- Luther's 95 Theses (1517)