All Key Dates Flashcards
1483 (one thing)
- Richard III usurps the throne; disappearance of the Princes of the Tower, Buckingham’s revolt against Richard III
1485 (four things) - vital
- August 22nd ~ Henry Tudor defeated Richard III a the Battle of Bosworth and became the first Tudor king of England
- 30 October ~ Henry’s coronation
- 7 November ~ Henry’s first parliament
- Henry dated back his reign by one day to the 21st of August so he was no able to declare his opponents traitors
1486 (six things) - vital
- 18 January ~ Henry married Elizabeth of York
- March ~ Henry begins first progress to the Midlands and the North
- April ~ Challenge to Henry VII by Francis Lovell and the Stafords
- 19 September: Birth of Prince Arthur
- Henry’s right to be king confirmed by the papacy
- November ~ Rumors that - - Lambert Simnel is claiming to be the Earl of Warwick
1487 (four things) - vital all on pretenders
- Pretender ~ Lambert Simnel
- February ~ Henry parades the real Earl of Warwick in London
- April ~ De la Pole escapes to Burgundy, Henry begins to raise troops
- May ~ De la Pole and Lovell in Ireland, Simnel crowned king in Dublin
- June ~ Rebel army defeated at the Battle of Stoke by Henry VII, the last battle of the War of the Roses
1489 (two things) - vital
- Tax revolt in Yorkshire, Yorkshire Rebellion
- Treaty of Medina del Campo;
1490 (one thing)
Jasper Tudor created head of the Council of Wales and the Marches
1491 (one thing) - pretender
Fall of Brittany; emergence of Perkin Warbeck in Cork claiming to be Richard, Duke of York
1492 (two things)
- Treaty of Etaples
- Warbeck in France
1495 (five things) - vital + sort of turning point
- Vagabonds and Beggars Act
- JPs given powers to arrest suspects and replace corrupt jurors
- Execution of Sir William Stanley for treason
- 1493-95 ~ Warbeck in Burgundy and the Holy Roman Empire
- July ~ Warbeck forced to Scotland and then Cornwall in September
1497 (one thing) - rebellion
Rebellion in Cornwall
1498 (one thing) - vital
Warbeck arrested and taken to the Tower
1499 (one thing) - vital
- The execution of Perkin Warbeck and the Earl of Warwick, rivals to Henry for the English throne
1504 (one thing)
Parliamentary opposition to Henry VII’s taxation
1509 (two things) - vital
- Henry VII dies and is replaced by his son Henry VIII
- Henry had 6 parliamentary sessions over 24 years
1511 (one thing)
1511-12 ~ First French War
1513 (one thing) - Turning point
The introduction of the Tudor subsidy, a more modern form of taxation
1514 (one thing) - religion
Thomas Wosley made Archbishop of York
1515 (three things)
- Hunne case causes anti clerical feeling in parliament
- November ~ Thomas Wosley appointed Cardinal by the Pope
- December ~ Wosley made Lord Chancellor
1518 (one thing) - vital - religion
Thomas Wosley appointed papal legate
1523 (one thing) - money
Parliamentary opposition to high levels of taxation
1525 (Two things)
- Princess Mary and Henry Fitzroy sent to Wales and the North as figureheads
- The Amicable Grant
1526 (one thing) - reforms
Eltham Ordinances
1527 (one thing)
Henry begins annulment proceedings
1529 (two things) - vital
- Fall of Wolsey; beginning of the Reformation of Parliament
- Mortuaries Act
1531 (one thing)
Vagabonds Act (Poor Law)
1532 (three things)
- Act in Conditional Restraints of Annates
- Submission of the clergy
- More resigns as Lord Chancellor; Thomas Cromwell becomes the king’s chief adviser
1533 (four things) - vital
- Thomas Cranmer is made Archbishop of Canterbury
- January ~ Anne Boleyns’s pregnancy is announced, henry marries Anne in secret
- April ~ Act in Restraint of Appeals
- May ~ Henry’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon is annulled by Thomas Cranmer
1534 (four things) - vital for religious reasons
- Act of Supremacy made Henry VIII Head of the Church in England instead of the pope
- Collection of the 1534 subsidy
- Succession Act
- Treason Act
1535 (one thing) - Turning point
First Law in Wales Act unifies Welsh and English government