Henry VIII: key dates

Question 1

June 24th, 1509

Answer 1

Henry VIII’s coronation

Question 2

April, 1509

Answer 2

Richard Empson and Edmund Dudley arrested

Question 3

June 11th, 1509

Answer 3

Henry marries Catherine of Aragon

Question 4

January 1510

Answer 4

Henry’s first Parliament:

- council learned in law abolished

Question 5

March 1510

Answer 5

the peace treaty with France and Spain renewed

Question 6

August 17th, 1510

Answer 6

Richard Empson and Edmund Dudley executed

Question 7

November 13th, 1511

Answer 7

Henry Joined the holy league against France

Question 8

September 1513

Answer 8

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

Question 9

June 30th, 1513

Answer 9

• Henry VIII invaded France
• 40,000 men
• Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian supporting

Question 10

August 16th, 1513

Answer 10

• Battle of spurs
• big success
• won Tournai and Therouanne

Question 11

August 7th, 1514

Answer 11

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

Question 12

December 1514

Answer 12

Richard Hunne Scandal

Question 13

September 1515

Answer 13

Wolsey was made cardinal

Question 14

February 18th, 1516

Answer 14

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

Question 15

October 31st, 1517

Answer 15

Martin Luther releases his ninety five thesis

Question 16

1518

Answer 16

• 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

Question 17

June 1519

Answer 17

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

Question 18

June 1520

Answer 18

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

Question 19

February 24th, 1525

Answer 19

the battle of Pavia:

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

Question 20

1525

Answer 20

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

Question 21

April 1525

Answer 21

Amicable grant rebellion and pardon

Question 22

August 30th, 1525

Answer 22

• 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

Question 23

January 1526

Answer 23

Eltham ordinances:

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

Question 24

May 1527

Answer 24

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

Question 25

1527

Answer 25

Henry is officially starting divorce proceedings against Catherine

Question 26

October 25th, 1529

Answer 26

Wolsey is fired

Question 27

November 1529

Answer 27

- '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

Question 28

November 1530

Answer 28

Wolsey dies

Question 29

January 25th, 1533

Answer 29

Henry marries Anne Boleyn in secret

Question 30

April, 1533

Answer 30

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

Question 31

July 1533

Answer 31

Henry is excommunicated from the catholic church

Question 32

September 1533

Answer 32

Elizabeth is born

Question 33

1534

Answer 33

a number of religious reforms are made

Question 34

March 1536

Answer 34

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

Question 35

may 1536

Answer 35

Anne Boleyn arrested and executed

Question 36

July - August 1536

Answer 36

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

Question 37

may 30th 1536

Answer 37

Henry marries Jane Seymour

Question 38

October 1536 - February 1537

Answer 38

the pilgrimage of grace

Question 39

October 12th, 1537

Answer 39

Edward is born and Jane Seymour dies of childbirth

Question 40

May 19th, 1539

Answer 40

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

Question 41

May - June 1539

Answer 41

Act of six articles: reasserted traditional catholic doctrine

Question 42

January 6th, 1540

Answer 42

Henry marries Anne of Cleves

Question 43

June 1540

Answer 43

Cromwell arrested with charges of treason

Question 44

July 1540

Answer 44

- Henry and Anne of Cleves marriage annulled | - Henry marries Catherine Howard

Question 45

February 13th, 1542

Answer 45

Catherine Howard executed for adultery

Question 46

July 1st, 1543

Answer 46

Treaty of Greenwich betroths prince Edward to Mary Queen of Scots

Question 47

July 12th, 1543

Answer 47

Henry marries Catherine Parr

Question 48

January 28th, 1547

Answer 48

Henry VIII dies of natural causes

Question 49

January 1536

Answer 49

- 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

Question 50

December 1534

Answer 50

- Act of Supremacy | - Henry made officially the head of the catholic church

Question 51

March 1534

Answer 51

- the act of succession | - made Anne officially Henry's wife and if fought against it was an act of treason