Key Dates Flashcards
When was the reformation parliament?
1529-36
Act to control clerical fees for burial
1529
Act of attainder against Wolsey
1529
Submission of the Clergy
1532
Henry VIII’s reign begin
1509
Wolsey Lord Chancellor
1515-29
Wolsey archbishopric of York
1514
Wolsey cardinal
1515
Wolsey papal legate
1518
Burning of Luther’s books
1521
Printing press
1440
Martin Luther’s 95 theses
october 1517
Luther excommunicated
1521
Erasmus’ Praise of folie
1509
John Colet accused of heresy
1512
John Colet becomes dean of St Paul’s
1505
Thomas More knighted
1521
More publishes ‘Utopia’
1516
More becomes Lord chancellor
1529
More arrested for refusing act of succession
1534
Thomas More executed
1535
Richard Hunne’s son dies
1511
Hunne arrested and imprisoned
October 1514
Hunne found hanging in his cell
December 1514
Thomas More resigns as chancellor
1532
Canterbury tales published (decade)
1520s
Catherine’s trial at Blackfriars
1529
Charles V sacks Rome and kidnaps Pope
1525
Henry charges 15 clergymen of praemunire
1530
Supplication against the ordinaries
1532
Act to remove the Annates
1532
Henry and Anne travel to France
1532
Cranmer became Archbishop of Canterbury
1533
The act in restraint of appeals
1533
Convocation of Canterbury
1533
Anne becomes Henry’s legal wife
1533
Act forbidding papal dispensation and payment of Peter’s Pence
1534
First act of Succession
1534
Act of Supremacy
1534
‘Supreme end of the Church of England’ added to Henry’s title
1535
Cromwell appointed chief minister
1534
John Fisher speaks out against the divorce
1532
Fisher arrested
1533
Bill of attainder against Fisher
1534
Fisher beheaded
1535
Elizabeth Barton claims she had visions regarding the divorce in what years
had visions in 1525 and 1528. claimed in 1532
Elizabeth Barton hanged
1534
Carthusian monks executed
May 1535
Statute limiting offences for which the benefit of the clergy could be claimed
1512
Henry refuses archbishop and bishop dispute to be heard in Rome
1513
Henry and Pope dispute homage from bishops in Tournai
1513
Quarrel over benefit of the clergy
1515
Henry writes a defence of the 7 sacraments
1521
Henry starts seeking a divorce
1527
Henry moves from the church canon law in seeking a law
1528
Henry threatens pope
1528-29
Wolsey accused of praemunire
1529
Church loses freedom to legislate
1532
Act of dispensations
1533
Anne Boleyn’s arrested
May 1936
Anne executed
May 1936
2nd Act of Succession
1536
1st set of royal injunctions
1536
Order of the preachers
1535
Death of Catherine of Aragon
1536
Birth of Elizabeth
1533
Anne miscarries a boy
1536
Henry has a serious jousting accident
1536
Henry’s marriage to Jane seymour
1536-7
Henry marries Anne of Cleves
1539
Henry marries Catherine Howard
1540
Evangelical reforms
1547
Act of 6 articles
1539
Cromwell removed from power with act of attainder
1540
Partial ban on bible reading
1543
Catherine Howard executed
1540
Henry excommunicated by papal bull
1538
England part of Schmalkaldic league
1538-41
Gardiner negotiates alliance with Spain
1541
Treaty of Nice between France and Spainb
1538
Valor Ecclesiasticus commissioned by Cromwell
1535
Dissolution of Minor monasteries
1536
Act passed for the dissolution of 300 smaller monasteries
1536
Commissioners visit larger monasteries
1538
Act of parliament to legalise the voluntary surrender of larger monastic properties
1539
Bad harvests cause unrest
1535
Monks and nuns chased from their homes
1536
Subsidy act raised outside of wartime
1534
Lincolnshire rebellion
1536
Pilgrimage of grace
1536
Chantries Act
1545
Trial and execution of John Lambert
1537
Act of six Articles
1539
Act of 10 Articles
1536
Monasteries fully dissolved
1540
King’s Book
1544
Cromwell Executed
1540
Henry marries Jane Seymour
1536
Reading of the Bible limited by Henry
1544
Abolition of Peter’s Pence
1534
Bishop’s book
1537
Henry leads invasion into France
1544
Duke of Norfolk’s army attack Scotland
1542
James suffers embarrassing defeat in invasion attempt
1542
Treaty of Greenwich
1543
Henry meets with James to discuss diplomacy
1541
Mary rose sunk by the French
1544
Earl of Hertford burns Edinburgh to the ground
1544
First debasement of the coinage
1544
Anne Askew executed
16th July 1546
Catherine Howard executed
1541
Parliament and treason act
1547
Proclamation act
1539
Chantries Act (Edward VI)
1546
Debasement of the coinage ended
1551
France sends 4000 troops to Scotland
June 1547
Battle of pinkies
October 1547
West country uprisings
1549
Kett rebellion
1549
John Dudley takes power and detains Somerset
October 1549
Somerset executed
January 1552
Somerset launches invasion of scotland
September 1547