On September 7, 1533 Elizabeth was born on the outskirts of London, England. The child’s father was King Henry VIII, mistakenly known as “Bluff King Hal.” The child’s mother was Anne Boleyn, the second of King Henry’s eight wives. Henry’s first wife was Catherine of Aragon. She had one surviving child, which she named Mary. Henry wanted a male heir to the throne, so he pleaded with the pope to annul the marriage. …showed first 75 words of 1166 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1166 total…proclaimed James I, thus uniting the crowns of the two kingdoms. During the Elizabethan era, the most important factors were the religious question, the defeat of the Spanish Armada, and the flourishing of literature. What were also important about her era were the hundreds of laws on agriculture, shipping, poor relief, commerce, roads, industry, and currency reform. These laws that she shaped lived on in the English Parliament two centuries after her reign had ended.