The Spanish Armada
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Key events on this timeline
- Spanish Armada (1588)
- Battle of Gravelines (1588)
- Drake singes the King of Spain's beard (1587)
- Fireships scatter the Armada at Calais (1588)
- Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (1587)
- The Armada sails from Lisbon (1588)
- Elizabeth's Tilbury speech (1588)
- The Armada wrecked on the voyage home (1588)
- The Armada sighted off Cornwall (1588)
- Babington Plot (1586)
- The English Armada fails at Lisbon (1589)
- Treaty of London ends the Anglo-Spanish War (1604)
- Throckmorton Plot (1583)
- Reign of Philip II of Spain (1556)
- Reign of Elizabeth I (1558)