Henry VIII: key dates Flashcards
June 24th, 1509
Henry VIII’s coronation
April, 1509
Richard Empson and Edmund Dudley arrested
June 11th, 1509
Henry marries Catherine of Aragon
January 1510
Henry’s first Parliament:
- council learned in law abolished
March 1510
the peace treaty with France and Spain renewed
August 17th, 1510
Richard Empson and Edmund Dudley executed
November 13th, 1511
Henry Joined the holy league against France
September 1513
Battle of Flodden; James IV dies, English victory at Tournai
June 30th, 1513
- Henry VIII invaded France
- 40,000 men
- Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian supporting
August 16th, 1513
- Battle of spurs
- big success
- won Tournai and Therouanne
August 7th, 1514
- Anglo-peace treaty
- fairly successful
- henry forced to make peace with France
- secured the marriage of his sister Mary to Louis XII
December 1514
Richard Hunne Scandal
September 1515
Wolsey was made cardinal
February 18th, 1516
Catherine and Henry has first child and heir to the throne, Mary
October 31st, 1517
Martin Luther releases his ninety five thesis
1518
- treaty of London
- non-aggression act between European nations
- designed by cardinal Wolsey
- pro: it brought Henry Immediate fame and ended the English isolation
- Con: it was short-lived
June 1519
- Henry Fitzroy born to the king and mistress Elizabeth Blount (illegitimate)
- Charles V become HRE
June 1520
Field of the cloth of gold, meeting Francis I of France
February 24th, 1525
the battle of Pavia:
- Francis I king of France captured and held prisoner by Charles V
1525
The amicable grant imposed:
- a tax on England by Lord Chancellor, Thomas Wolsey
- called a ‘benevolence’ at the time
- meant to raise money for a war on France
- gain an estimated £800,000
April 1525
Amicable grant rebellion and pardon
August 30th, 1525
- the treaty of the more
- peace treaty between England and France
- agreed to give up some territorial claims on France, receiving in return a pension from the French of £20,000 a year
January 1526
Eltham ordinances:
- designed to reduce amount of money In the royal household spent
- a failed reform of the English court by Wolsey
May 1527
Rome was sacked by the troops of Charles and the pope was imprisoned
1527
Henry is officially starting divorce proceedings against Catherine
October 25th, 1529
Wolsey is fired
November 1529
- ‘the anti-clerical commons’
- the first session of the reformation parliament
- an attempt to persuade the pope into granting Henry a divorce from Catherine so he could marry Anne
November 1530
Wolsey dies
January 25th, 1533
Henry marries Anne Boleyn in secret
April, 1533
The act in restraint of Appeals:
- forbade appeals to Rome
- allowed Cranmer to give a ruling on Henry’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon which could not be appealed
- to intimidate the pope generally
July 1533
Henry is excommunicated from the catholic church
September 1533
Elizabeth is born
1534
a number of religious reforms are made
March 1536
The suppression of religious houses act: allowed for dissolution of the monasteries
may 1536
Anne Boleyn arrested and executed
July - August 1536
Ten articles and Cromwell’s injunctions: to inform religious reforms e.g. placing a bible in every church, restrict superstitious images
may 30th 1536
Henry marries Jane Seymour
October 1536 - February 1537
the pilgrimage of grace
October 12th, 1537
Edward is born and Jane Seymour dies of childbirth
May 19th, 1539
The second suppression act: allowed the dissolution of the larger monasteries
May - June 1539
Act of six articles: reasserted traditional catholic doctrine
January 6th, 1540
Henry marries Anne of Cleves
June 1540
Cromwell arrested with charges of treason
July 1540
- Henry and Anne of Cleves marriage annulled
- Henry marries Catherine Howard
February 13th, 1542
Catherine Howard executed for adultery
July 1st, 1543
Treaty of Greenwich betroths prince Edward to Mary Queen of Scots
July 12th, 1543
Henry marries Catherine Parr
January 28th, 1547
Henry VIII dies of natural causes
January 1536
- Henry sustains a head injury after falling off of a horse
- it is said that after this, henry had permanent memory problems, explosive anger, inability to control impulses, headaches, insomnia
December 1534
- Act of Supremacy
- Henry made officially the head of the catholic church
March 1534
- the act of succession
- made Anne officially Henry’s wife and if fought against it was an act of treason
