<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabethan_era" id="mwPw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Elizabethan era">Elizabethan era</a> begins: Queen <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_I_of_England" id="mwQA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Mary I of England">Mary I of England</a> dies and is succeeded by her half-sister <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_I_of_England" id="mwQQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Elizabeth I of England">Elizabeth I of England</a>.