Mary I

Timeline

1. 1551–1553Hertfordshire · HertfordshireAround 1551 Mary kept to Catholic worship in the countryside, refusing to accept the Protestant reforms promoted by her brother Edward VI. On his deathbed in 1553 Edward excluded her from the succession via the Device for the Succession, triggering a serious constitutional crisis.
2. 1553–1554London · LondonAfter Edward VI's death in July 1553, Mary entered London with the support of the people and nobility, deposed Lady Jane Grey, who had reigned only nine days, and was formally crowned. She immediately set about restoring Catholicism and in 1554 married Philip II of Spain, provoking strong backlash at home and abroad.
3. 1555–1558London · LondonFrom 1555 Mary restored the heresy laws, with Cardinal Reginald Pole overseeing the reversal of the religious reforms; many Protestants were burned at the stake, including Bishops Latimer and Ridley. England's war with France went badly in 1557, Calais was lost in 1558, and Mary died childless that year, succeeded by Elizabeth.