Key Dates Flashcards
Act to remove the Benefit of Clergy
1529
Pope Clement IV orders Henry VIII not to remarry; threatens Henry with excommunication
1531
Act to Remove Annates
1532
A Supplication for the Beggars published
1529
Thomas Cromwell joins the King’s Council
1530
Act of Attainder against Wolsey
October 1529
Release to the King of money had by way of loan
1529
Parliament prorogued for the first time
17th December 1529
Parliament opens for second sitting
15th January 1531
Convocation agrees to reword the clerical subsidy
January 1531
An Act concerning a pardon granted to the King’s spiritual subjects of the province of Canterbury for the praemunire passed
1531
Supplication of the Ordinaries presented to Henry by the Commons; Henry takes it to Convocation
1532
Cranmer declares Henry and Anne’s marriage legal
13th May 1533
Act in Restraint of Appeals passed
7th April 1533
Pope draws up Bill of Excommunication but doesn’t issue it
11th July 1533
Archbishop of Canterbury, Warham, dies
Cranmer becomes Archbishop (Henry’s choice of appointment)
August 1532
Henry and Anne secretly marry
January 1533
Katherine of Aragon’s speech at Blackfriars
21st June 1529
Henry gains French support to marry Anne
1532
Act of Succession passed
23rd March 1534
Act of Supremacy passed
November 1534
Treason Act came into force
1st January 1535
Death of Richard Hunne
3rd December 1515
Death of Cardinal Wolsey
29th November 1530
Henry tells Katherine he is seeking a divorce (she finds out first from Chapuys, the Spanish Ambassador!)
1527
Katherine of Aragon dismissed from Court
1531
Thomas More resigns as Chancellor
1532
Anne Boleyn created Marchioness of Pembroke
1532
Act for Abolition of Peter’s Pence
1534
Thomas Cromwell appointed principal secretary
1534
Thomas More and John Fisher executed
1535
Cromwell appointed vicegerent
1535
Tyndale’s English Bible published
1526
Tyndale’s ‘Obedience of a Christian Man’ published
1528
Anne Boleyn’s coronation
29th May 1533
More tried for treason at Westminster for refusing to take the oath in the Act of Succession
1st July 1535
Act for the Dissolution of Lesser Monasteries
February 1536
Death of Katherine of Aragon
7th January 1536
Execution of Anne Boleyn
19th May 1536
Act of Ten Articles passed
July 1536
First set of Cromwell’s Royal Injunctions issued to clergy
August 1536
Bishops’ Book published
July 1537
Publication of the ‘Matthew Bible’
August 1537
Treaty of Nice signed by Charles V and Francis I
July 1538
Second set of Royal Injunctions issued by Cromwell (specifies the English Bible in every parish by 1540, relics must be removed from churches, no pilgrimages)
September 1538
Trial and execution of John Lambert for rejection of transubstantitation
November 1538
Henry excommunicated by Paul III
December 1538
Publication of the ‘Great Bible’
April 1539
Act of Six Articles
June 1539
Act for the Dissolution of the Greater Monasteries (retrospectively)
June 1539
Henry married Anne of Cleves
January 1540
Cromwell arrested
June 1540
Cromwell executed
28th July 1540
Henry married Katherine Howard
18th July 1540