Elizabeth 1 to 1603, and James 1 thereafter.
There were two rulers of England during Shakespeare's life--Elizabeth I to 1603 and James I thereafter.
The King of England in the latter part of Shakespeare's life was James I.
In England alone, about five million people lived at the same time as Shakespeare.
Queen Elizabeth I was Queen for 39 of Shakespeare's 52 years.
No, Shakespeare and his work were very popular during his lifetime. His plays were one of the reasons his theatre company became the top company in England.
It depended where you were. In China, it was Confucianism. In North Africa, it was Islam. In Italy, it was Catholicism. And in England, where Shakespeare was, the only legal religion was the Church of England, a form of Protestant Christianity.
Shakespeare was born in 1564 during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, as she reigned from 1558 until 1603. He died in 1616 during the reign of James I (James VI of Scotland while they were still separate countries). Shakespeare's first plays were written in 1590, under Elizabeth, and his last in 1612 under James.
The Spanish Armada sailed with the intention of invading England and replacing its Queen with the Spanish King in 1588 when Shakespeare was 24.
Shakespeare was born and died in England. He probably never left England in his entire life.
He lived in England all his life, from 1564 to 1616. There are seven years when we have no record of him (1585-1592); he may have travelled during this time, possibly out of England.
We have no indication that Shakespeare was ever outside of England in his life.
Queen Elizabeth the first up to 1603. After that, the queen was Anne of Denmark, James 1st's wife.