What year was Queen Elizabeth the 1st made queen????

Question

Thanks in advance- oh and if you could summarize how she became Queen that would be lovely-but all I really need is the year . : )

Answer 1

~1558 would be the year. The death of Mary would be the reason. Then it gets complicated.

Elizabeth was born to the line of succession when she was born to Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. However, when Henry lopped off Anne's head, Elizabeth lost all right or claim to the throne. Then Jane Seymour kicked the bucket with no kids, and there was little prospect for Henry to produce more. The lack of an heir threw England into a panic, naturally, so Parliament got into the act. By act of Parliament, succession was set: First was Edward, son of Henry and Jane Seymour and Henry's only legitimate son. Then followed Mary, daughter (and only surviving child) of Henry and Catherine of Aragon. Then came the heirs of Edward and Mary, and finally Elizabeth. Probably through the influence of his last wife, Catherine Parr, Henry ratified the line of succession through his will. (Much to everyone's relief, neither Anne of Cleaves nor Kathryn Howard bore Henry any children. Or maybe to everyone's dismay - a surviving son, barring a murder along the way to the throne, would have solved all issues of succession and the Elizabethan Age would never have occurred.)

Mary, Queen of Scots had a valid claim to the throne as the surviving heir (great-granddaughter) of Henry VII, but she was ignored by Parliament. England was converting to Protestantism and the last thing they wanted was a Catholic on the throne. They were stuck with Mary, Elizabeth's half-sister, but they could overlook Mary, Henry VIII's older sister's grandkid. Mary's marital exploits were as colorful as Great-uncle Henry's and England wasn't ready for that again, either. Mary's bastard half-brother led a revolution against her and captured her, but she was spirited off to England before he could execute her. Mary was such a threat to the Empire and to Elizabeth that Elizabeth did sanction her execution after having kept her under arrest for 16 years.

Mary, Elizabeth's half-sister died under suspicious circumstances after a prolonged illness following her imagined pregnancy. During her reign, Mary kept Elizabeth in the Tower or otherwise under arrest most of the time and had almost had her executed once or twice, but there was something of a truce between the siblings and there is no conclusive evidence that Mary died of foul play or that Elizabeth had a hand in her death.

Mary's reign was not a good time for England. She made the mistake of not executing the first group who had plotted for her untimely demise and removal. They tried again. There were at least half a dozen plots against Mary. Mary finally started to use a little more common sense, if a little less mercy, and the burnings began and the heads rolled. Henry II of France provoked the occasional war. Mary's husband and cousin, Prince Philip of Spain, son of Emperor Charles V, also started a skirmish or two with the French and managed to lose the last British lands on the continent to the French. On the domestic front, there was the religious strife of which the Tudors were so richly fond. Henry and Edward converted the kingdom to Protestantism. Mary was Catholic. Thus the many plots against her, her retaliation and the general warfare and turmoil. The country wanted Elizabeth the Protestant on the throne.

Edward, taking the throne at age 9 and being dead at age 15, left no heirs. Neither did Mary, but if she had, it is likely they would have been murdered (possibly at the hands of Elizabeth, maybe by the Protestant members of the Court). Mary was bypassed when Edward died and Lady Jane Grey, great-granddaughter of Henry VII was crowned instead. Mary made short work of her and Jane only reigned - from the Tower - for 9 days. She managed to survive for another few months, but Mary realized the threat she posed and off went Jane's head.

When Mary died, Elizabeth became queen, not by rules of primogeniture or heredity but by Act of Parliament.

Answer 2

The year was 1558. She became Queen on the death of her half-sister, Mary 1

Answer 3

To add to the above, she was Henry VIII's second surviving legitimate daughter and third child (Henry had illegitimate children and also many legitimate children who died young) so the odds were against her ever being queen, especially when she was declared illegitimate when he annulled his marriage to her mother just before he beheaded her. (Not sure how old or educated you are, so don't be offended when I say- to annul a marriage is to say "it was never legal or valid", thus any children born are by definition illegitimate.)
Henry VIII's only son, Elizabeth's half-brother Edward VI, succeeded him on the throne but died in his teens. Edward's much older half-sister, Henry VIII's oldest daughter Mary, became queen even though
1- there was a brief civil war where nobles who hated Mary made Mary's cousin, Jane Grey, a granddaughter of Henry VIIII's sister, queen- after 9 days she was arrested and later beheaded
2- Mary had also been declared illegitimate when Henry annulled his marriage to her mother [who he didn't behead but basically let die in poverty in the countryside]
3- Mary was a devout Catholic, a religion that had been illegalized by her father (whom she hated with a passion and believed was burning in hell).
4- Mary was a woman- England had only had one female ruler before (the Holy Roman Empress Matilda in the 12th century) and her reign was a disaster of constant civil war

But Mary agreed
1- to be religiously tolerant
2- to marry a man who would be king (she chose Philip, the son of her cousin Charles, the king of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor)
3- to not seek vengeance on those who had helped her father divorce/annul her mother

Mary married when she was almost 40 but had no children (she thought she was pregnant- sad and bloody story- when she'd been "pregnant" for a year she began to think that God would not let her baby be born until she killed the heretics [Protestants] in the land so she became "Bloody Mary"- but later it was learned it was not a baby but a cancerous tumor that was inside of her). When Mary died Elizabeth was the last surviving child of King Henry VIII and was crowned.
There was a lot of disagreement with the decision to make Elizabeth queen. Many people wanted her cousin Mary, the Queen of Scotland (granddaughter of Henry VIII's other sister and also a close relative by blood and marriage to the French royal family) to be crowned, while some wanted Jane Grey's sister and there were some real dark horse candidates as well. Elizabeth was chosen though because

1- Many more people hated the notion of Mary of Scotland because she was Catholic, French (she was raised in France and her first husband/cousin had been King of France, but she was sent back to Scotland when he died young- no kids), and had a reputation as being vain and stupid (which she probably was)
2- Elizabeth was a Protestant, known to be highly intelligent, had promised religious tolerance, and was a skilled negotiator already
3- Elizabeth was attractive and 25, which meant that they could marry her off to the king of Spain or the king of France or some other high born European or English noble, which would make an alliance with that country or faction. (It didn't work out that way.
Elizabeth was understandably terrified of marriage [her father had killed her mother [his second wife] and her cousin Katherine [his fifth wife], had divorced two others, and she'd seen her other two stepmothers died in childbirth, so it wasn't a pleasant notion to her to be Mrs. Anybody or to give up her power. She entertained many proposals and let herself be courted and wooed for many years and she probably had at least two longterm lovers (Robert Dudley the Earl of Leicester and when he died his stepson, Robert Devereaux the Earl of Essex) but she never married. She ruled in her own right and was beloved (at least by most) as the personification of England by the end of her reign.