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Henry VIII: key dates Flashcards

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June 24th, 1509

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Henry VIII’s coronation

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April, 1509

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Richard Empson and Edmund Dudley arrested

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June 11th, 1509

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Henry marries Catherine of Aragon

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January 1510

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Henry’s first Parliament:

- council learned in law abolished

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March 1510

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the peace treaty with France and Spain renewed

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August 17th, 1510

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Richard Empson and Edmund Dudley executed

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November 13th, 1511

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Henry Joined the holy league against France

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September 1513

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Battle of Flodden; James IV dies, English victory at Tournai

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June 30th, 1513

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  • Henry VIII invaded France
  • 40,000 men
  • Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian supporting
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August 16th, 1513

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  • Battle of spurs
  • big success
  • won Tournai and Therouanne
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August 7th, 1514

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  • Anglo-peace treaty
  • fairly successful
  • henry forced to make peace with France
  • secured the marriage of his sister Mary to Louis XII
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December 1514

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Richard Hunne Scandal

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September 1515

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Wolsey was made cardinal

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February 18th, 1516

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Catherine and Henry has first child and heir to the throne, Mary

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October 31st, 1517

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Martin Luther releases his ninety five thesis

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1518

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  • 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
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June 1519

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  • Henry Fitzroy born to the king and mistress Elizabeth Blount (illegitimate)
  • Charles V become HRE
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June 1520

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Field of the cloth of gold, meeting Francis I of France

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February 24th, 1525

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the battle of Pavia:

- Francis I king of France captured and held prisoner by Charles V

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1525

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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
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April 1525

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Amicable grant rebellion and pardon

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August 30th, 1525

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  • 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
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January 1526

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Eltham ordinances:

  • designed to reduce amount of money In the royal household spent
  • a failed reform of the English court by Wolsey
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May 1527

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Rome was sacked by the troops of Charles and the pope was imprisoned

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1527

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Henry is officially starting divorce proceedings against Catherine

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October 25th, 1529

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Wolsey is fired

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November 1529

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  • ‘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
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November 1530

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Wolsey dies

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January 25th, 1533

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Henry marries Anne Boleyn in secret

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April, 1533

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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
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July 1533

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Henry is excommunicated from the catholic church

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September 1533

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Elizabeth is born

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1534

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a number of religious reforms are made

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March 1536

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The suppression of religious houses act: allowed for dissolution of the monasteries

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may 1536

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Anne Boleyn arrested and executed

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July - August 1536

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Ten articles and Cromwell’s injunctions: to inform religious reforms e.g. placing a bible in every church, restrict superstitious images

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may 30th 1536

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Henry marries Jane Seymour

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October 1536 - February 1537

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the pilgrimage of grace

39
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October 12th, 1537

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Edward is born and Jane Seymour dies of childbirth

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May 19th, 1539

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The second suppression act: allowed the dissolution of the larger monasteries

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May - June 1539

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Act of six articles: reasserted traditional catholic doctrine

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January 6th, 1540

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Henry marries Anne of Cleves

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June 1540

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Cromwell arrested with charges of treason

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July 1540

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  • Henry and Anne of Cleves marriage annulled

- Henry marries Catherine Howard

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February 13th, 1542

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Catherine Howard executed for adultery

46
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July 1st, 1543

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Treaty of Greenwich betroths prince Edward to Mary Queen of Scots

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July 12th, 1543

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Henry marries Catherine Parr

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January 28th, 1547

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Henry VIII dies of natural causes

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January 1536

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  • 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
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December 1534

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  • Act of Supremacy

- Henry made officially the head of the catholic church

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March 1534

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  • the act of succession

- made Anne officially Henry’s wife and if fought against it was an act of treason

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