1559 - What happened in 1559 ?

January 1559

Elizabeth I crowned queen of England in Westminster Abbey.

Elizabeth I of England is crowned in Westminster Abbey by Owen Oglethorpe, the Bishop of Carlisle, instead of the Archbishop of Canterbury.

The treaty, Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis, is signed, ending the Italian Wars.

Bartholome de Carranza, Spanish archbishop, is arrested for heresy

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