Death of Elizabeth I
March 24, 1603
The last Tudor, a seventy-year-old woman who had reigned forty-five years and refused to name an heir, died at Richmond Palace murmuring that all her possessions were for a moment in time. Within hours, riders galloped north with news for James VI of Scotland. The English crown passed to a Stuart.
In context
Also in 1603 (5 other events on record)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu Named Shogun · East Asia · Politics
- James VI Becomes James I of England · Europe · Politics
- Champlain's First Voyage to the Saint Lawrence · North America · Exploration
- Akbar Commissions Final Histories · South Asia · Culture
- Champlain Maps Tadoussac Whales · North America · Exploration
Before and after in Europe
Before and after in Politics
Era
Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.
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