History Timeline 1509 - 1745

Question 1

1509?

Answer 1

1509: King Henry VIII becomes King.

He is King Henry VII’s son.

He has six wives.

Question 2

1534?

Answer 2

1534: King Henry VIII makes himself head of Church of England breaking away from the Catholic Church

Question 3

1536?

Answer 3

1536: King Henry VIII starts to close monastries, confiscating their land and valuables

Question 4

1547?

Answer 4

1547: Edward VI becomes King (King Henry VIII’s son). He is sympathetic to Protestants.

Question 5

1549?

Answer 5

1549: A new Book of Common Prayer is introduced. It is written in English not Latin.

Question 6

1553?

Answer 6

1553: Mary I becmes Queen (King Henry VIII eldest daughter).

She is strongly Catholic and reverses the religious reforms of Henry VIII and Edward VI

Question 7

1558?

Answer 7

1558: Elizabeth I becomes Queen (King Henry VIII’s youngest daughter).

She has a long reign (44 years), but never marries.

Question 8

1559?

Answer 8

1559: Elizabth I tries to change the Church of England so both Catholics and Protestants will like it.

Elizabeth introduces the Middle way for Protestants and Catholics.

Question 9

1587?

Answer 9

1587: Mary Queen of Scots is executed

Mary was Margaret Tudor’s grand child.

Margaret was King Henry VIII’s sister and was married to King James IV of Scotland

Question 10

1588?

Answer 10

1588:The Spanish send an Armada of ships to invade England. It is defeated.

Question 11

1603?

Answer 11

1603: Elizabeth I dies, childless.

James Stuart already King of Scotland becomes James I King of England (Mary Queen of Scots’s son).

Tudor reign ends and Stuarts reign begins in England.

Question 12

1625?

Answer 12

1625: Charles 1 (King James I’s son) becomes King.

He annoys a lot of people with expensive wars and high taxes.

Question 13

1642?

Answer 13

1642: Civil War begins in England.

It is a fight between Royalists loyal to Charles I and Parliamentarians who want more say in the running of the country.

Question 14

1648?

Answer 14

1648: The Parliamentarians win the Civil War.

They set up a republic called “The Common Wealth”. Oliver Cromwell is their leader.

Question 15

1649?

Answer 15

1649: Charles 1 is executed.

Question 16

1653?

Answer 16

1653: Cromwell makes himself “Lord Protector”

Question 17

1658?

Answer 17

1658: Cromwell dies and is replaced by his son

Question 18

1660?

Answer 18

1660: The monarchy is brought back - this is called the restoration.

Charles II becomes King, after promising to rule with the Parilament.

Question 19

1685?

Answer 19

1685: James II becomes king.

He is Catholic and is unpopular with the Protestants.

Question 20

1688?

Answer 20

1688: James II’s Protestant daughter Mary and her husband William of Orange, take over the throne.

James II runs away to France.

Question 21

1690?

Answer 21

1690: James II tries to get his throne back by raising an army of Catholic supporters in Ireland.

But his army is badly beaten at the Battle of the Boyne.

Question 22

1702?

Answer 22

1702: Mary’s sister Anne becomes Queen.

Question 23

1707?

Answer 23

1707: The Act of Union unites England and Scotland.

Question 24

1714?

Answer 24

1714: Anne dies childless.

A distant German relation becomes King George I.

Question 25

1715?

Answer 25

1715: A Scottish rebellion against the Act of Union fails.

Question 26

1727?

Answer 26

1727: George I dies.

His son becomes King George II.

Question 27

1745?

Answer 27

1745: Another Scottish rebellion, led by Bonnie Prince Charlie also fails.