16th Century England
Andrew Harriott
Allie Cornfield
Stephanie Graves
Dates
• 1500 – 1600
• Includes Elizabethan period (the period
during Elizabeth l’s reign,1558 – 1603)
Religion
• Protestant Reformation in
England due to political
necessities of Henry Vlll.
• He was afraid no male
heir might jeopardize his
descendants claim to the
throne so he sought an
annulment.
• The Pope denied the
annulment, Henry
removed Church of
England from Roman
authority.
• The Act of Supremacy
made King Henry the
Supreme Head of the
Church of England.
• Henry obtained a decree
of nullity from the Arch
Bishop of Canterbury, but
had already began his
relationship with Anne
Boleyn.
• When Henry died, he was
succeeded by his
protestant son Edward Vl
Queen Mary l restored England to Roman
Catholicism.
• She had almost 300 protestants burned at
the stake, earning the nickname “Bloody
Mary”
Queen Elizabeth I
• Reversed Roman
Catholicism after Mary l
(half-sister)
• During her reign,
Elizabeth established
Protestantism
• Had England reconcile
with Rome
• Abolished Edward’s
religious laws
• Restored the Act of
Supremacy and fined
those who did not go to
church
• Ordered all Catholic
priests to leave England
or be charged with
treason.
• Anglican Church
emerged as a blend of
Roman Catholicism and
Protestantism
The Anglo-Spanish war
The Causes of the war
• One main cause of the war with Spain was
difference in religion.
• Another main cause of the war was the
escapades of the Elizabethan seamen, or
pirates, included attacking Spanish
vessels and taking any gold and silver.
The attack
• The Spanish armada consisted of 132
ships and they were headed to invade
England.
• The English fleet of 34 ships and 163
armed merchant vessels under Lord
Howard of Effingham, Sir Francis Drake,
and Sir John Hawkins
• The English defeated the armada with
superior strategy and communication.
The End of the war
• The war ends once queen Elizabeth is
dead and King James l takes over the
crown.
• King James I issued a decree that all acts
of piracy must cease.
Sir Francis Bacon
The life of Sir Francis Bacon
• He was born on the January 22 1561 in
London.
• His father was the keeper of the great
seal.
• He became a Member of Parliament in
1584.
More life of Francis Bacon
• He was knighted by King James l and
became the keeper of the great seal.
• He was very interested in science
• Bacon also was appointed lord chancellor
which is the most powerful position in
England.
• Admitted to taking bribe and he was
imprisoned and Banished from the court.
• He died in London on April 9th 1626.
Francis Bacon in Literature
• Bacon's first work was The Advancement of Learning
(1605). His second came along in 1620, Novum
Organum; it was part of his larger philosophical work
known as Instauratio Magna
• Bacon’s book were wrote to prove Aristotle's Ideas and
thoughts on how the world and human nature works.
• Bacon also wrote a lot of poems as of this example….
A Poem
• Guiltless Heart
The man of life upright, whose guiltless heart is free
From all dishonest deeds and thoughts of vanity:
The man whose silent days in harmless joys are spent,
Whom hopes cannot delude, nor fortune discontent;
That man needs neither towers nor armor for defense,
Nor secret vaults to fly from thunder's violence:
He only can behold with unaffrighted eyes
The horrors of the deep and terrors of the skies;
Thus scorning all the care that fate or fortune brings,
He makes the heaven his book, his wisdom heavenly things;
Good thoughts his only friends, his wealth a well-spent age,
The earth his sober inn and quiet pilgrimage.
Sir Francis Bacon
16th Century Literally Advances