Dates Flashcards
H7 - Battle of Bosworth
22 August 1485
H7 Coronation
October 1485
Henry 7 marries Elizabeth of York
January 1486
H7 - Prince Arthur is born
September 1486
Henry 7 embarks on royal Progress to the North
April 1486
H7 - Retaining law (Lords and Commons must swear against illegal retaining)
1485
H7 - Retaining Law (nobles must have license from King before retaining)
1504
H7 - Star Chamber Act
1487
H7 - Act of Resumption (reclaiming Crown lands lost since 1455)
1486
H7 - Yorkshire Rebellion
1489
H7 - Perkin Warbeck first appears in Ireland
1491
H7 - Lovell’s Rebellion
1486
H7 - Cornish Rebellion
1497
H7 - Lambert Simnel first appears in Ireland
1486
H7 - Battle of Stoke
1487
H7 - Edward IV’s real sons murdered
1483
H7 - Simnel and Irish invade England
May 1487
H7 - Warbeck lands in kent
July 1945
H7 - Scotland invade England on Warbeck’s behalf
1497
H7 - Warbeck turns himself in with a full confession
August 1497
H7 - Warbeck runs away from Court
1498
H7 - Warbeck executed
1499
H7 - Treaty of Medina Del Campo
1489
H7 - Truce with France
1485
H7 - Truce with Scotland
1486
H7 - Truce with Habsburg Empire
1487
H7 - Breton Crisis
1488-1492
H7 - English army crosses channel to defend Brittany
April 1489
H7 - Treaty of Etaples
1492
H7 - Navigation Acts passed
1485, 1486
H7 - Act limiting export of English wood, and making it illegal for foreigners to buy wool on continent
1489
H7 - Intercursus Magnus
1496
H7 - Treaty allowing English wool to be imported to Pisa
1490
H7 - Cabot reaches Newfoundland and claims it for England
1497
H7 - Prince Arthur dies
1502
H7 - Elizabeth dies
1503
H7 - Ferdinand married Germaine de Foix
1505
H7 - Philip of Burgundy dies
October 1506
H7 - League of Cambrai formed
1508
H7 - Truce of Ayton
1497
H7 - Prince Arthur marries Catherine of Aragon
1501
H7 dies
1509
H7 reign
1485 - 1509
H8 becomes King
April 1509
H8 - First invasion of France
1512
H8 - Second, more successful, invasion of France
1513
H8 - Treaty of Germaine-en-Laye
1514
H8 - Battle of Flooden
September 1513
H8 - Wolsey made Cardinal by Pope Leo X
1515
H8 - Wolsey appointed Papal Legate by Pope Leo X
1518
H8 - Duke of Buckingham investigated by Wolsey for implying H wouldn’t be King much longer
1520
H8 - Martin Luther’s 98 Theses
1517
H8 - Wolsey introduced plans to close monasteries with under 6 inmates and forcibly amalgamating those with under 12
1528
H8 - Public burnings of Luther’s texts begin
May 1521
H8 - The Eltham Ordinances
1526
H8 - Wolsey organised national survey to see who could pay tax and how much
1522
H8 - Wolsey proposes the ‘Amicable Grant’
1525
H8 - Wolsey undertakes recoinage
1526
H8 - The only 2 parliaments called by Wolsey
1515, 1523
H8 - King Louis XII of France dies
1515
H8 - Ferdinand of Aragon dies
1516
H8 - Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I dies
1519
H8 - Treaty of London
October 1518
H8 - Meeting at the Field of the Cloth of Gold
June 1520
H8 - H sides with Habsburgs and declares war on France
1522
H8 - League of Cognac
1526
H8 - Treaty of Cambrai
August 1529
H8 declares he wants a divorce
1527
H8 - Catherine of Aragon appeals to Pope to move divorce hearing to Rome
June 1529
H8 accuses Wolsey of Praemunire
1529
H8 - Wolsey summoned to London to answer further charges
1530
H8 - Wolsey dies
29 November 1530
H8 - Thomas More’s ‘Utopia’ released
1516
H8 secretly marries (pregnant) Anne Boleyn
1533
H8 - Act of Parliament passed, preventing payment of annates to Rome
1532
H8 - Act in Restraint of Appeals passed, so Catherine couldn’t appeal to Rome for case to be heard there
1533
H8 - Six Articles Act passed
1539
H8 - Cranmer’s Prayer Books
1549, 1552
H8 - Elizabeth I born
September 1533
H8 - Anne Boleyn crowned Queen
June 1533
H8 - Act of Supremacy
1534
H8 - Treasons Act made denial of royal supremacy punishable by death
1534
H8 - Royal Injunctions ordering clergy to follow Ten Articles of Faith and explain them to congregations
1536, 1538
H8 - Bishop’s Book published, offering advice
1537
H8 - First official translation of Bible into English published
1537
H8 - Cromwell orders survey, giving H excuse to close monasteries
1535
H8 - Cromwell issues the Valor Ecclesiasticus to assess value of smaller monasteries
1535
H8 - Act of First Fruit and Tenths allows Henry to tax the Church
1534
H8 - Parliament pass the Act for the Dissolution of Smaller Monasteries
1536
H8 - Parliament pass the Act for the Dissolution of Larger Monasteries
1539
H8 - The Court of Augmentations is established
1540
H8 - Succession Act passed
1534
H8 - Henry Courtenay executed
1539
H8 - Elizabeth Barton, Nun of Kent appears as threat to H
1528
H8 - Elizabeth Barton executed
April 1534
H8 - Pilgrimage of Grace
1536-37
H8 - Revolutionary long lasting and important parliament meet
1529
H8 - Pope excommunicates H
1538
H8 - Truce of Nice between Charles V and Francis I
1538
H8 publishes Six Articles
June 1539
H8 - Battle of Solway Moss
November 1542
H8 - Earl of Hertford takes English army on series of raids in border region of England and Scotland
1544-45
H8 sails to Calais to support Habsburg against France
1544
H8 - Treaty of Ardres
1546
H8 - Tenth Earl of Kildare leads rebellion against English crown
1536
H8 declares Ireland as part of his kingdom
1540
H8 - Edward is born
1537
H8 - Cromwell executed
July 1540
H8 - (final) Succession Act
February 1544
H8 dies
28 January 1547
H8 reign
1509 - 1547
E6 - Act of Uniformity
1549
E6 - Archbishop Cranmer’s Prayer Book
1549
E6 - Francis I of France dies
1547
E6 - Battle of Pinkie
Sep 1547
E6 - Western Rebellion
1549
E6 - Kett’s Rebellion
1549
E6 - Somerset arrested
11 Oct 1549
E6 - Somerset released and allowed to rejoin Privy Council
Feb 1550
E6 - Somerset executed
Jan 1552
E6 - Act abolishing Chantries
Nov 1547
E6 - Treasons Act repeals anti-Protestant legislation of 1539
Nov 1547
E6 - Second Act of Uniformity
1552
E6 - Second Prayer Book
1552
E6 - Instructions for bishops to ensure altars replaced by communion tables
1553
E6 - Treason Act
1552
E6 - Treaty of Bolougne between English and French
1550
E6 - Somerset repeals sheep tax of 1548
1550
E6 - New Treason Act re-imposed censorship
1550
E6 - New Poor Law Act passed making parishes responsible for raising money to look after deserving poor
1552
E6 catches and survives both measles and smallpox
Spring 1552
H8 - Succession Act
1544
E6 dies
July 1553
E6 reign
1547 - 1553
M - First Act of Repeal removes religious legislation of E6’s reign
Oct 1553
M - Cardinal Pole returns to England from exile in Catholic Europe
November 1554
M - Second Act of Repeal removes religious legislation since 1529
January 1555
M - Burnings begin
February 1555
M - Archbishop Cranmer burnt alive
1556
M - Marriage to Philip of Spain
July 1554
M - Wyatt’s Rebellion
Feb 1554
M - England declares war on France
June 1557
M dies
November 1558
M - Book of Rates introduced to improve Crown income from custom duties
May 1558
M - Militia Act established system of Commissioners of Muster to organise recruitment of regional militias
1558
M - Loss of Calais
Jan 1558
M reign
1553 - 1558
E coronation
Jan 1559
E issues Royal Proclamation, insisting there should be no preaching
Dec 1558
E - Act of Supremacy
1559
E - Act of Uniformity
1559
E - Royal Injunctions
1559
E - Prayer Book
1559
E - Thirty Nine Articles = compromise between Protestantism and Catholicism
1563
E - Act of Exchange
1559
E - Philip offers to marry E
1559
E - Treaty of Edinburgh
1560
E - Civil war breaks out in France between Catholic families and the Huguenots
1562
E - Treaty of Hampton Court
Sep 1562
E - English forced to surrender Le Havre in France
June 1563
E - Peace of Troyes signed between English and French governments
1564
E - Deliberations of Council of Trent end
1563
E - Philip bans import of English cloth into Netherlands
1563
E - Amy Robsart (Dudley’s wife) found dead at the bottom of the stairs
Sep 1560
E becomes ill with smallpox
Oct 1562
E - Statute of Artificers enforced potential workers to take on 7-year apprenticeships in one place
1563
E - Act of Parliament makes distinction between genuinely unemployed and the ‘idle poor’
1572
E - Poor Relief act makes donations to local authorities compulsory
1572
E - Houses of Correction set up to punish those who refused to work
1576
E - Food riots in London and the South East
1595
E - Poor Law Act required setting up of pauper apprenticeships
1597
E - Poor Law Act repeated but with slight changes
1601
E - Parliament vote E an allowance for court of £40,000 each year
1563
E - Dudley distinguished himself at Battle of Saint-Quentin against France
1557
E - Dudley commanded forced to aid the Dutch rebels
1585
E - annual tournament to mark the day E succeeded to the throne starts
1572
E - The first theatre (The Theatre) is built
1576
E - The Globe opens
1599
E - MPs anger E by discussing the succession question
1566
E - Peter Wentworth imprisoned in Tower of London for demanding greater freedom of speech
1576
E - Parliament refuse to grant E additional taxes for war against Spain unless E withdrew some monopolies
1601
E - Parliament pass more strict law against lawyers and MPs who refused Oath of Supremacy (second refusal = death penalty)
1563
E - Pope instructed English Catholics not to attend Anglican Church services
1567
E - Spanish Duke of Alba sent to Netherlands to put down rebellion that had broken out against Spanish Catholic rule
1567
E - MQS arrives in England seeking sanctuary
1568
E - Seminary for priests founded by William Allen in Douai in Netherlands
1568
E - Pope excommunicates E
1570
E - Protestants slaughtered in France during St Bartholomew Day massacre
1572
E - New Treason Act introduced, making denial of E’s supremacy or following of Pope’s excommunication punishable by death
1571
E - Campion (Jesuit missionary) executed
1581
E - Act against Jesuit and Seminary Priests assuming Catholic missionaries automatically guilty of treason
1585
E - execution of MQS
1587
E - Archbishop Parker issues Book of Advertisements, setting out what was expected in religious services
1566
E - English Catholics rejected call to support Spanish Armada
1588
E - Vestiarian Controversy when 37 clergymen refused to follow (Catholic-like) dress code of Book of Advertisements
1566
E - Cartwright’s lectures argued for abolition of bishops an Church gov based on ideas of John Calvin
1570
E - John Field publishes ‘Admonitions to the Parliament’ arguing that Presbyterian Church structure is only one sanctioned by bible (no bishops)
1572
E - Grindal refuses to put down prophesying
1576
E - Whitgift issues Three Articles which forces all ministers to swear absolute acceptance of bishops, Prayer Book and Thirty Nine Articles
1583
E - Robert Browne established Separatist congregation in Norwich
1580
E - Act against Seditious Sectaries allows authorities to execute those suspected of being separatists
1593
E - Rebellion of the Northern Earls
1569
E - Ridolfi Plot
1571
E - Throckmorton Plot
1583-84
E - Babington Plot
1586
E - MQS executed
1587
E - Philip offers to marry Elizabeth
1559
E - Pope excommunicates Elizabeth
1570
E - Treaty of Blois replaces idea of marriage to Duke of Anjou with Anglo-French defensive alliance against Spain
1572
E sends financial aid to Parma in the Netherlands
1581
E - Treaty of Nonsuch with Dutch rebels
1585
E - Spanish Armada
1588
E sends Drake to Portugal for counter-attack after Spanish Armada
1589
E sends English force to Normandy to aid Henry after Duke of Parma invaded France from Spanish Netherlands
1592
E - Drake and Hawkins lead expedition to Caribbean, but both die
1595
E - Lord Howard of Effingham, Raleigh and Earl of Essex lead raid on Spain
1596
E - Second armada battered by storms
1596
E - Essex and Raleigh try to lead another raid on Spain but it fails
1597
E - Philip’s third attempt at an armada fails due to bad weather
1597
E - Drake raids Cadiz harbour
1587
E - Philip II dies
1598
E - Peace between England and Spain
1604
E - John Hawkins goes to Africa and captures slaves
1562
E - Final poor laws passed
1598 and 1601
E - Food riots near end of reign
1595, 1596-97
E - Four successive crop failures near end of reign
1594-97
E - First visitation of plague
1592-93
E - Hugh O’Neill’s Rebellion
1598-1603
E - Spanish relief force defeated at Kinsale during O’Neill’s Rebellion
1602
E - Essex Rebellion
1601
E - Allows Essex to command her army in Ireland
1599
E died
24 March 1603
E reign
1558 - 1603
