RAINBOW FARMS AUSTRALIA
16th Century AD - 2.
1552 AD Edward Seymour, the Duke of Somerset, the previous Regent in England for the young Edward V1 the son of Henry V111, who had personally accumulated vast Catholic Institute Estates, was executed by John Dudley the Earl of Warwick who then replaced him becoming the unofficial Regent and also the Duke of Northumberland and a Second Act of Religious Uniformity to the Ascendancy Church of England was passed against Catholics and other Dissidents.
1553 AD Edward V1 the Welsh Tudor King of England was to die of tuberculosis at 15 years of age, and John Dudley the Duke of Northumberland desperately tried to install the young Jane Grey who he had married off to his son, Guilford Dudley, as the next monarch in England, which was to only last for 6 days and Mary 1st, the legitimate Catholic daughter of Henry V111 and Catherine of Aragon, was installed as the Welsh Tudor Spanish English Queen and began a Catholic revival.
Grace O Malley from the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Ui Mallie who was a Pirate Queen from Co. Mayo in the Connacht Province attacked the English shipping.
26,000 acres in Co. Wicklow in Southern Leinster were by now back in Gaelic Irish hands under the Heremonian Cu Corb Ui Dunlaing ferocious O Tooles, O Byrnes and the Ui Cheinnselaig Mac Murroghs and their kinsmen the Kavanaghs.
1554 AD Sir Thomas Wyatt lead a rebellion in Kent in England, and Jayne Grey and her husband were executed along with the Earl of Suffolk and Sir Thomas Wyatt.
Mary 1st the Welsh Tudor Catholic Queen of England married her cousin, Phillip of Spain / Philip 11, the son of Charles 1st / V the Emperor.
In Ireland the Gaelic Irish Septs took the opportunity to retaliate against their English lackeys for the previous excesses carried out against them, and James Butler was back in as the English Earl of Ormonde, and St. Patrick's Church in Dublin was rebuilt as a Catholic Church, but the Gaelic Irish Septs in Co. Offaly and nearby in Co. Laois in Southern Leinster were driven out of their territory there and further foreign English planters were put in to extend The English Pale around Dublin.
Mary of Lorraine was now acting as the Regent in Scotland for her young daughter, Mary Stuart Queen of Scots, and Cardinal Pole arrived into England and the English Parliament decides to return England to the Catholic Faith.
1555 / 56 AD John Rogers, Latimer, Ridley and Thomas Cranmer were burnt in England for heresy.
St. Ignatius Loyola, died, who had founded the Society of Jesus / Jesuits.
Paul 1V becomes the new Pope and began a Counter - Reformation.
1557 AD War was declared again between France and England.
1558 AD Calais in France was returned to the French, and in April the young Mary Queen of Scots married Francis who was the heir apparent / Prince in France.
Mary 1st the Welsh Tudor Spanish English Queen and Cardinal Pole, both died.
Elizabeth 1st her half- sister from Anne Boleyn, was in as the new Welsh Tudor Queen of England determined to firmly establish the Episcopalian Church of England Ascendancy, which was to create 6 rebellions in Ireland during her lifetime to be known as the "Elizabethan Wars" against both the Gaelic Irish and the Anglo - Irish / Old English, due to her never - ending ethnic and religious oppression.
The Treaty of Cateau - Cambresis was to create peace in Europe, and also especially between France and England and Elizabeth 1st had further Acts of Uniformity of Religion to the Ascendancy Church of England and her personal Religious Supremacy were to be passed in England, and she was to send Lord Dudley the English Earl of Essex over to Ireland to secure the Munster Province and the Gaelic Milesian Heberian Dal gCais kingdom of Thomond / Northern Munster was to be completely destroyed after 1500 years. Donnell Mac Carthy Mor in the kingdom of Desmond / Southern Munster was appointed the first English Earl of Clan Carty.
Gerald Plunkett now had the "Most Beautiful Book in the World" / The Book of Kells in his possession.
All of the Catholics in England who stood up to Elizabeth 1st were to be totally crushed, until there was only 1 in 14 left, while all of the Catholics in Ireland were still holding out although Catholic Irish heads were to be placed in rows along the roadsides to terrify anyone passing by who would see them and she gave 200,000 acres in the Ulster Province to Sir Walter Raleigh who was to lose it in a card game overnight and she was then to send Sir Henry Sidney to Ireland with a further large force of English Militia to take over the Connacht Province, the Leinster Province and the Munster Province by massacre and outright murder, and the people in Munster were to revolt against these terrible measures under both the Gaelic Irish and the Anglo - Irish / Old English. The first ""Desmond Revolt" also occurred in Southern Ireland, and the English authorities ïn Ireland were to make Ireland into Shire land and Shane O Niall "The O Niall" would be executed and his territory would be confiscated in the Ulster Province, by Elizabeth 1st, but despite this the foreign English non - Catholic plantations there were also to fail. Elizabeth 1st was to also to claim the north - east of the Ulster Province as her own personal territory calling herself the Countess of Ulster and shared the territory there with her favourite, Dudley the English Earl of Essex although he was not welcome there, as he had previously massacred over 200 of the Mac Donnell women and children who had been placed previously on Rathlin Island for their safety. 126.Brian O Niall along with his wife and many others there in Ulster were also taken to Dublin Castle and executed.
Pandemonium was now to be rampant among the leaderless Heberian Dal gCais Septs in the kingdom of Thomond / Northern Munster and Aed Dubh / Black Hugh O Niall who had been reared in England for an English purpose was to revolt also against the violent actions of Elizabeth 1st and become the Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain leader in the Ulster Province and Fitz Gerald the Anglo - Irish Earl of Desmond was to go to France to seek assistance against her ongoing ethnic and religious oppression. Grace O Malley from the Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin the Pirate Queen was to visit Elizabeth 1st, and although she told her she did nothing physical herself, she was to switch sides later on and begin to harass the Gaelic Irish Septs on her behalf. Donnell O Brien was to be appointed the English Governor of Clare and was then to execute his own Dal gCais people, with 10 pounds for each Barony to go to Elizabeth 1st. In Co. Meath 105 Catholic parishes were to be confiscated and taken over and not one was to have any Ascendancy Church of England clergy while Trinity College in Dublin was to be founded as an anti - Catholic and anti - Gaelic University. Spain and England were to be always at War due to her continuous religious oppression and during the second "Desmond Revolt" in the Munster Province, Elizabeth 1st was to be declared Persona Non Grata in Ireland and England by the Pope for these terrifying actions.
As there was now no overall Gaelic Irish leader in Ireland, Italian assistance was to arrive in Ireland, and although they would be forced to surrender, the Gaelic Irish and Anglo - Irish were to be now even much closer in a common cause and Elizabeth 1st was to also give Sir Walter Raleigh another 42,000 acres of the Desmond Estates in Southern Munster, and confiscate another 547,000 acres in the Munster Province, where further non - Cathoic English planters were to be put in there, while Co. Clare in the north - west of Munster was to be made into English Baronies, and 10 /- was to be paid to Elizabeth 1st for every 120 acres in Co. Clare, and the Connacht Province was also to be changed into English titles. Donnell Cam O Sullivan would claim his Gaelic Irish hereditary title back in the kingdom of Beare in Co. Cork in Munster although he too had been made use of for an English purpose, but he too was to stand up and be counted against her never - ending oppression. The Mac Carthy's territory in the south of Munster also would be confiscated by Elizabeth 1st, and further non - Catholic English planters were to be put in there and she was also to grant Edmund Spencer 3,000 acres of Fitz Gerald the Earl of Desmond's Estates there aaalso. Edmund Fitz Gerald the White Knight was to betray his kinsman, Fitz Gerald the Anglo - Irish sixteenth Earl of Desmond for which he was to receive 1,000 pound reward from Elizabeth 1st and because of this betrayal his family were to change their name to Fitz Gibbon and the Anglo - Irish / Old English it now seemed were not to be trusted by the English, as they were holding to the Catholic faith and becoming "More Irish then the Irish." Those Irish who were able to survive the terrible massacres were to hide out in the bogs and forests, and this ensured the ongoing continuance as Irish Septs who then met once or twice a year to arrange their ongoing commitment to the Irish Brehon Law.
Aed Dubh / Black Hugh O Niall was to be created the English second Earl of Tyrone for an English purpose, and the Gaelic Irish Septs were to be cleared out of Co. Laois in Southern Leinster once again to expand The English Pale while the Connacht Province, the Leinster Province and the Munster Province were to be basically brought under Elizabeth 1st's overall control by her "Slash and Burn" policies, but not the Ulster Province in the north of Ireland.
Civil War occurred among the O Donnell Septs in Ulster over the senior position of "The O Donnell" to strengthen their position and this was not to help matters there, but despite his incarceration in Dublin Castle the young Aed Ruadh / Red Hugh O Donnell was to eventually become "The O Donnell" and ally with Brian Oge - the Younger O Rourke,129.Aed Dubh / Black Hugh O Niall, and Aed Maguire, against Elizabeth 1st's ongoing repression and she would execute the legal heir apparent, her cousin, Mary Queen of Scots after keeping her imprisoned for 19 years in England. In desperation the Spanish Armada was to be sent by the King of Spain to relieve the ongoing terrible religious persecution, but it was to be wrecked around the coast of Ireland and most of the survivors were brutally massacred. The young Aed Ruadh / Red Hugh O Donnell was to be held hostage by her in the Dublin Castle for years and was also later imprisoned in England, but he was to escape back to Ireland to stand up and be counted against her ongoing brutality while rebellion in Munster was to be rife against her ethnic and religious persecution and land confiscations there. Brian Oge - the Younger O Rourke was to continue his personal attacks on the English forces in his kingdom of West Breifne and territory in Co. Leitrim in the Connacht Province and in desperation of ever obtaining some relief from her ongoing repression Phillip 11 the King of Spain would be offered the Kingship of Ireland to relieve the Irish of Elizabeth 1st'storment. 129.Aed Dubh / Black Hugh O Niall was to defeat her English forces at Yellow Ford, which was to be the most successful campaign ever against the English in Ireland, while Donnell Cam O Sullivan would head north to survive with 1,000 of his people from Co. Cork in Munster intending to also assist 129.Aed Dubh / Black Hugh O Niall in his opposition to her terrible inhumane policies.
1559 AD Henri 11 the King of France, died and his young son, Francis 11 became the new King of France, and the young Mary, Queen of Scots also became the Queen of France.
John Knox a follower of the teachings of Calvin returned to Scotland to dominate there.
1560 AD Treaty of Berwick between the English Duke of Norfolk and the Scottish Lords of the Congregation in Scotland and Elizabeth 1st sent an army to assist them and Mary of Lorraine the mother of Mary, Queen of Scots who was the Scottish Regent, died and Under the Treaty of Edinburgh the French forces had to leave Scotland and the Scottish Parliament abolished the Catholic faith in Scotland.
Francis 11 the young King of France, died of an ear infection leaving Mary, Queen of Scots a 17 year old widow.
1561 AD Mary, Queen of Scots, returned to Scotland against sound advice not to, as John Knox had completely taken over and by now officially turned Scotland into a non - Catholic Calvanistic Country also and her main advisor now was to be her kinsman Lord James Stewart who was a non - Catholic.
1562 AD Elizabeth 1st sent English forces to assist the Calvanistic Huguenots in France, while the Battle of Corrichie occurred in Scotland and the Earl of Huntly was defeated by the Earl of Moray and killed,
1564 AD The Treaty of Troyes was made between France and England.
1565 AD Mary Stuart Queen of Scots, married her cousin, Henry Stewart / Lord Darnley who was not only very arrogant but had many enemies, while the Earl of Moray fled to England.
The Puritans in England who were against the impositiion of the Ascendancy Church of England were also to be harassed.
1566 AD March: Henry Stewart / Lord Darnley murdered Mary Stuart Queen of Scots' Catholic secretary David Riccio in front of her at Holyrood Palace. June: Her son, the future James V1 of Scotland and James 1st of England was born.
1567 AD February: Henry Stewart / Lord Darnley was murdered, and Mary Stuart Queen of Scots, was forced into a marriage with James Hepburn the fourth Earl of Bothwell for protection.
June: The combined non - Catholic Calvanistic Scottish Earls raised an army against Mary and James Hepburn at Carbury Hill and Mary surrendered and was imprisoned in Lochleven Castle where she was forced to abdicate and the Scottish Parliament declared her guilty of murder and to have forfeited the monarchy. James V1, the infant son of Mary became the Stuart King of Scotland until 1625 AD and came under John Knox's personal influence as a child.
1568 AD Mary, Queen of Scots escaped from Lochleven, her prison in Scotland, and her supporters were defeated in May at the Battle of Langside, and Mary fled to England to seek protection from her cousin, Elizabeth 1st who was to imprison her for 19 years until February 1587 AD when she was to cut off her head. Another "Geraldine Rebellion" was to occur this year in Ireland against Elizabeth 1st.
128.Shane O Niall "The O Niall" was to become more active against the English Militia in Ireland, until he became ""England's Greatest Fear, and he was murdered and his head cut off and sent to Dublin Castle (The Devil's 1/2 acre) to be impaled on the spikes there at the behest of Elizabeth 1st and Turlogh Luineach O Niall was then put in by the English authorities to act as their lackey in the Ulster Province and Pardons were now given for sacks of Irish heads and all of the Gaelic Irish and Anglo - Irish were forced to conform to the Ascendancy Episcopalian Church of England or else, and this single decree was to make the opposing Änglo Irish / Old English combine against her briefly also.
1569 AD The Munster Province was in revolt against Sir Henry Sidney acting for Elizabeth 1st as Cork, Kinsale, Kilmallock and Youghal was attacked by the united Irish forces under Mac Carthy, and Fitz Maurice the Anglo - Irish Earl, who now had no castle or property of his own and he sent the Papal appointee at Cashel in Ireland to see King Phillip of Spain for assistance, while the Pope himself was hoping for reconciliation with Elizabeth 1st, and they then received no help.
1570 AD The Earl of Moray the Regent of Scotland for the young James V1 was assassinated, and the Earl of Lennox became the new Regent there who was also murdered, and the Earl of Mar became the next Regent.
Elizabeth 1st was declared "Persona non Grata" in England and Ireland by the Pope and Thirty Nine Articles were enacted in England, which was the beginning of Penal legislation against Catholics in England and also those among the Recusants / Dissenters there who also said no to the imposition of the Ascendancy Church of England.
1572 AD Defensive alliance between England and France.
The Earl of Mar the Scottish Regent died, and Morton became the new Regent in Scotland and John Knox also died who had been dominant there who had gone from being a follower of Lutheranism to Calvinism, no bishop, no king.
1573 AD The Edinburgh Castle was surrendered by Kirkaldy and of Grange and Maitland of Levington.
1575 AD Fitz Maurice the Anglo / Irish Earl was in France and had fled there after the buildings on the Rock of Cashel were also ruined in Co. Tipperary in the north - east of the Munster Province and Elizabeth 1st sent Fitz Gerald the English Earl of Desmond to govern the Munster Province for her, but instead he found himself at the head of the remnants of his cousin's rebellion, and all the territory there was reduced to waste and he was swept aside and the English forces then moved on to the Connacht Province, while the O Nialls still kept out of it.
1577 AD Elizabeth 1st founded the Trinity College in Dublin for the Church of England Ascendancy only.
1579 AD Morton the Regent of Scotland resigned, but later took possession of the young James V1.
1580 AD Robert Parsons and Edmund Campion who were Jesuit missionaries arrived into England.
H. Nicholas founded the "Family of Love" in Holland, promoting love to all humanity, but it was proclaimed by Elizabeth 1st who ordered all of their books were to be burnt and any of their members found to be imprisoned.
1581 AD Morton the previous Regent of Scotland was executed in Scotland.
1582 AD The siege of Ruthven in Scotland and James 1V who was the 16 year old son of Mary Queen of Scots, was taken prisoner until June 1583 AD.
1583 AD John Whitgift was appointed the \ascendancy Church of England Archbishop of Canterbury by Elizabeth 1st in England to suppress the Puritans, and Fitz Gerald the Anglo - Irish sixteenth Earl of Desmond was executed in Ireland.
1584 AD An Association was formed in England to protect Elizabeth 1st, and Episcopacy was also introduced into the Scottish Church by James V1.
1585 AD Elizabeth 1st had an Act passed in England against the Jesuits and the Catholic priests and decreed that all Catholic clergy must get out of Ireland under pain of death but many ignored her decree.
1586 AD Walsingham exposed a plot by Thomas Babington against Elizabeth 1st, and an alliance was made between Elizabeth 1st and James V1 against the return of the Catholic Faith in Briton and Margaret Clitherow was crushed to death for harbouring Catholic priests and would later be canonized by the Pope.
1587 AD Mary Queen of Scots was executed by Elizabeth 1st.
1588 AD May 20th: The Spanish Armada set sail from Lisbon and was defeated on July 29th.
1589 AD Barrow and Perry were executed, and Udall died in prison, for criticizing the Ascendancy Church of England Episcopacy / Episcopalians in England in writing.
1592 AD Presbyterianism was established as a religion in Scotland. "GOD loves those who succeed."
1593 AD Anti - Puritan Statute was passed in England and many Puritans were to leave England for Holland, while further English Acts were also passed against Catholic recusants.
1596 AD A Triple Alliance between England, France and United Provinces against Spain, and Sir Robert Cecil becomes Elizabeth 1st's main advisor.
1598 AD - 1603 AD During this time there was to be a 9 Year Rebellion against Elizabeth 1st in Ireland under 129.Aed Dubh / Black Hugh O Niall, who was a son of 128.Ferdoragh / an Fear Dorcha O Niall, who was a son of 127.Conn Bacach O Niall, who had been the first appointed English Earl of Tyrone. 129.Aed Dubh O Niall had been raised in England for an English purpose and had been appointed the first English Earl of Dungannon and the second English Earl of Tyrone but eventually he would also become "The O Niall" in his own right, although infighting was to previously occur among the various Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain Septs for the position of "The O Niall" in the Ulster Province while they were trying to combine the Gaelic Irish opposition to the ongoing English oppression in Ireland.
1599 AD Elizabeth 1st was to send her favourite, the young Lord Dudley the English Earl of Essex, with 20,000 English Militia into Ireland, but he soon was to be in trouble due to lack of support from her, so he made a truce with 126.Aed Dubh / Black Hugh O Niall, and then returned to England where he was to be eventually executed by Elizabeth 1st while rebellion was also occurring in the Munster Province again, due to the terrible treatment that was being continually metered out to the population of Ireland there by the English Military forces. Elizabeth 1st then sent Charles Blount / Lord Mountjoy to Ireland as her new English Lord Deputy to carry out her "Scorched Earth" policy to "Slash and Burn" everyone and everything in sight, and those important among the English who carried out these terrible atrocities under Mountjoy were to be given vast Estates in the Ulster Province.
1600 AD The Gowrie Conspiracy occurred in Scotland and the East India Company was founded in England.
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