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Henry VIII dies and Edward VI succeeds him

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28 January 1547

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Regency Council established, with Edward Seymour as Lord Protector and Duke of Somerset

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31 January 1547

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Royal Injuctions ordering that copies of the Book of Homilies to be placed in every parish church; that clergy must conduct their services in English, preach every Sunday and keep a copy of the English Bible in their church; and that ‘superstitious’ images are removed

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July 1547

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Act passed dissolving the chantries

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(autumn) 1547

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Repeal of the Treason act and the heresy laws (incl. the Act of the 6 Articles)

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1547

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Vagrancy Act passed

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1547

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Enclosure commissions set up by Somerset’s government

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1547

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6 of the harvests between these years failed to produce enough food to feed the growing population

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1547-1548

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Somerset issues a series of proclamations to restore order and limit who can preach, but the impact of these was limited

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January - April 1548

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Council has to ban all public preaching, and orders that the Latin Mass should continue to be used until Cranmer could write a new Protestant Book of Common Prayer to replace it

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September 1548

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Act of Uniformity imposed new Book of Common Prayer, making the Church of England officially Protestant for the first time

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January 1549

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Unrest in 25 counties all over the South and Midlands. Mostly put down by local nobility and gentry, apart from Western and Norfolk rebellions which required royal army to be sent down

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March - August 1549

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Somerset passes act to collect tax on sheep and home-produced cloth to make enclosure unprofitable (was impossible to actually carry out to collect tax)

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March 1549

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Western Rebellion broke out

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June 1549

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Norfolk (Ket’s) Rebellion broke out

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July 1549

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Further injunction ordering that ALL images must be removed in ____ and then that they must all be destroyed in ____

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(February) 1548, (December) 1549

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Somerset executes his own brother Thomas Seymour for treason - damaged his reputation

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1549

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Coup led by Warwick (later Northumberland) removes Somerset (ending Protectorate)

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13 October 1549

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John Dudley aka Northumberland (then Earl of Warwick) took control of the Privy Council, making himself Lord President of the Council

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February 1550

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New Ordinal changing the ordination of new clergy in a Protestant direction

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1550

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Act passed to get rid of images and mass books, so clergy would have no choice but to use the new Book of Common Prayer in English as opposed to the Latin Mass

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1550

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Treaty of Boulogne (allied England with France and Scotland after the strengthening of the Auld Alliance due to the failure of the Rough Wooing and the success of the Battle of Pinkie)

Boulogne was returned to the French, England removed garrisons from Scotland, English-Scottish border was put back to before H8, and a marriage between Edward VI and Henri II’s daughter Elizabeth

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1550

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John Dudley becomes Duke of Northumberland

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October 1551

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Population rose 30% between these years

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1525 - 1551

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Conservative bishops like Gardiner of Winchester removed and replaced by Protestants, so that for first time a majority of bishops are Protestant
1551
26
Somerset executed
January 1552
27
New Treason Act reiterating that denial of the Royal Supremacy over the Church was treason
January 1552
28
New Act of Uniformity passed to enforce new more radical Book of Common Prayer, making church attendance compulsory for the first time, and declaring that any clergy refusing to use the new Book would be imprisoned for 6 months.
March 1552
29
By this year Northumberland has reduced the Crown's debt to below £200,000 (by improving financial administration, reducing expenditure and selling crown and church land)
1553
30
42 Articles - declaring the doctrine of the Church of England to be emphatically Protestant (affirming the doctrine of salvation by faith alone and denying the Catholic belief in free will and salvation by good works). BUT Edward died BEFORE THE 42 ARTICLES COULD BE IMPOSED
1553
31
Northumberland's son marries Lady Jane Grey
May 1553
32
Devise to exclude Mary Tudor
June 1553
33
Death of Edward VI and Devise for the succession bastardised Mary and Elizabeth and announced that Lady Jane Grey would succeed to the throne
6 July 1553
34
Against her wishes Lady Jane Grey proclaimed Queen
10 July 1553
35
Mary marches on London to widespread acclaim and is declared Queen, defeating Northumberland's attempt to put Lady Jane Grey on the throne.
19 July 1553
36
Northumberland executed
August 1553
37
First Statue of Repeal - reversing ALL religious legislation passed by Edward
October 1553
38
Committees were established which excluded casual councillors (Mary)
1554
39
Leaks of a plot to prevent Mary's intended marriage to the heir of the throne of Spain
January 1554
40
Wyatt's Rebellion - taking advantage of discontent among weavers in Kent
January 1554
41
Wyatt unable to get across London Bridge, so the rebellion was crushed
3 February 1554
42
Lady Jane Grey and her husband are executed to prevent her being the focus for further rebellion. Elizabeth also arrested and imprisoned in the Tower.
12 February 1554
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Elizabeth freed from the Tower of London
May 1554
44
Mary marries Philip of Spain
July 1554
45
Second Statute of Repeal (revival of heresy laws)
1555
46
Bishops Hooper, Latimer and Ridley are among those burnt for heresy
1555
47
Mary thinks she is pregnant - but no baby arrives - experiences a phantom pregnancy
1555
48
Philip leaves for business in the Netherlands. Soon afterwards his father abdicates as HRE and Philip becomes King of Spain. (not HRE though)
1555
49
Death of Gardiner. This plus Philip's departure in the same year allowed Paget to dominate and establish a conciliar form of government (more efficient/effective).
(November) 1555
50
Pole becomes Archbishop of Canterbury (a year after returning to England as papal legate)
November 1555
51
Cranmer burnt
1556
52
Worst harvest of the century
1556
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Philip returns to England for 4 months. Involves Mary in Spanish war against France
March 1557
54
Calais surrendered to the French in the Siege of Calais
7 January 1558
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Mary again convinced she is pregnant and makes a will excluding all but her own children from the succession (but in fact is probably stomach cancer)
March 1558
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Death of Mary Tudor and Mary's half-sister, Elizabeth, succeeds to the throne
17 November 1558

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