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Queen Mary I

after Unknown artist
woodcut, after 1558
4 7/8 in. x 3 3/4 in. (124 mm x 94 mm) paper size
Reference Collection
NPG D17818

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  • Queen Mary I (1516-1558), Reigned 1553-58; daughter of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon. Sitter associated with 50 portraits.

Artistback to top

  • Unknown artist, Artist. Artist or producer associated with 6578 portraits.

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Events of 1558back to top

Current affairs

Death of Queen Mary I; she is succeeded by her Protestant half-sister Elizabeth.
Sir William Cecil is appointed Secretary of State; he will remain Queen Elizabeth I's chief minister until his death in 1598.
The French capture Calais, England's last holding in continental Europe.
Large-scale famine and an influenza epidemic spreads across England.

Art and science

The Scottish Protestant reformer John Knox publishes The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women, a controversial attack on female rule with the aim of inciting rebellion against Queen Mary I.

International

Mary Queen of Scots marries the French Dauphin (later Francis II of France).
Archduke Ferdinand of Austria is formally elected Holy Roman Emperor.
Akbar, Mughal Emperor of India, conquers Gwalior, Ajmer and Jaunpur in north India.

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Peter Stiffell

04 January 2022, 11:02

This woodcut is a plate from Pieter van Opmeer's Opus chronographicum orbis vniuersi a mundi exordio vsque ad annum 1611