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| Alliance Elizabeth I |  |
| Sends contingents to support Henry IV in France |
| Battle of Calais Howard, Charles | |
| 19th July Calais An English attack is launched from the Scilly Isles by Lord Howard |
| 8th Aug Calais Sends 8 tarred fireships to attack the Armada where it waits to rendezvous with Parma |
| Battle of Flanders Coast Drake, Francis | |
| 7th Aug Flanders The English and Spanish fleets again engage off the coast of Flanders , the English again are more successful |
| Battle of Flanders Coast Howard, Charles | |
| 7th Aug Flanders The English and Spanish fleets again engage off the coast of Flanders , the English again are more successful |
| Battle of Gravelines Drake, Francis | |
| 6th Aug Gravelines The Spanish Armada is defeated by an English naval force under command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake off the coast of Gravelines , now in France |
| Battle of Gravelines Howard, Charles | |
| 6th Aug Gravelines The Spanish Armada is defeated by an English naval force under command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake off the coast of Gravelines , now in France |
| 7th Aug Gravelines On the day after Gravelines , the wind had backed, southerly, enabling Medina Sidonia to move the Armada northward (away from the French coast), the English pursue the Spanish fleet, to prevent it returning to escort Parma |
| Battle of Gravelines Seymour, Henry | |
| 6th Aug Gravelines 16 Spanish ships are captured |
| 6th Aug Gravelines On the day after Gravelines , the wind had backed, southerly, enabling Medina Sidonia to move the Armada northward (away from the French coast), the English pursue the Spanish fleet, to prevent it returning to escort Parma |
| 6th Aug Gravelines Ordered by Lord Howard to patrol Dunkirk & Nieuport |
| 6th Aug Gravelines Prevents Parma making a dash for the English coast |
| 6th Aug Gravelines The Spanish fleet manages to escape to the North Sea due to a sudden squall |
| Commander in Chief Howard, Charles | |
| Named Commander-in-Chief of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada although he does not directly take charge of the fighting |
| Diplomacy Elizabeth I | |
| 30th May It takes until May 30 for all of the Armada to leave port and, on the same day, Elizabeth's ambassador in the Netherlands, Dr Valentine Dale, meets Parma's representatives to begin peace negotiations |
| 17th July Negotiations are abandoned |
| 19th July Delayed by bad weather, the Armada is not sighted in England until July 19, when it appears off The Lizard in Cornwall, the news is conveyed to London by a sequence of beacons that had been constructed the length of the south coast of England |
| Discovery of Greenland Frobisher, Martin | |
| Launches an expedition to Greenland |
| Excommunication of Elizabeth I Elizabeth I | |
| Vatican Elizabeth is excommunicated by the Pope for a 2nd time on the eve of the Armada |
| Invasion of England Dudley, Robert | |
| Aug Tilbury Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester maintaines a force of 4,000 soldiers at West Tilbury, Essex, to defend the estuary of the River Thames against any incursion up-river towards London |
| Invasion of England Elizabeth I | |
| 19th July Delayed by bad weather, the Armada is not sighted in England until July 19, when it appears off The Lizard in Cornwall, the news is conveyed to London by a sequence of beacons that had been constructed the length of the south coast of England |
| 8th Aug Tilbury Queen Elizabeth visits Tilbury to encourage her forces and gives to them what is probably her most famous speech |
| Siege of Cadiz Drake, Francis | |
| 19th April Cadiz Delays the Armada by 1 year |
| 19th April Cadiz Destroys 36 Spanish ships & intercepts barrel staves intended for the armada |
| 19th April Cadiz Says he has "singed the King's beard" |
| Spanish Armada Drake, Francis | |
| 30th July Dodman Point The two fleets sight each other off Dodman Point |
| 30th July Plymouth Drake is waiting in Plymouth with 14 galleons & 50 other vessels |
| Spanish Armada Dudley, Robert | |
| Aug Tilbury Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester maintaines a force of 4,000 soldiers at West Tilbury, Essex, to defend the estuary of the River Thames against any incursion up-river towards London |
| Spanish Armada Elizabeth I | |
| 8th Aug Tilbury I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too |
| 8th Aug Tilbury Queen Elizabeth visits Tilbury to encourage her forces and gives to them what is probably her most famous speech |
| Spanish Armada Howard, Charles | |
| Effingham orders an indirect strategy of harassing the Spanish fleet rather than attacking them directly |
| 12th Aug Howard calls a halt to the chase in the latitude of the Firth of Forth off Scotland but ut by that point, the Spanish are suffering from thirst and exhaustion, the only option left to Sidonia is to chart a course home to Spain, along the Atlantic |
