Elizabeth I and the first English lottery (where everybody won a prize!)

  Tudors and Stuarts

On the 11th January 1569, the first recorded lottery was drawn in England under Elizabeth I.

London, Elizabeth I, Armada, Spain, economy, England, monarchy, Tudor

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