Key Dates and figures Flashcards
Battle of Bosworth
22nd August 1485
Number in Richard’s army
15,000
Number in Richard’s rear guard
7000
Number in Henry’s army
5000
Number of men the Stanley’s had
6000
Henry VII’s coronation
30th Oct 1485
Henry VII’s first parliament
7th November 1485
Marriage of Henry VII & Elizabeth of York
Jan 1486
Arthur born
Sep 1486
Lovell rebellion
1486
Lambert Simnel threat
1487
Battle of Stoke field
1487
Perkin Warbeck threat
1491-9
Warbeck in Ireland
1491
Warbeck in France
1492
Warbeck in Burgundy
1493
Warbeck tried to land in Kent
1495
Warbeck in Scotland
1496
Stanley betrayal
1495
Warbeck captured
1497
Number of members of council of Henry VII
240
Number of regular council members - Henry VII
6/7
Death of Reginald Bray
1503
Henry VII use of parliament
5 in first 10 yrs
2 in later 14 yrs
Money from feudal dues
1487 - £350
1507 - £6000
Money raised for war in Brittany
1491 - £48,000
Money from selling Archdeacon of Buckingham post
£300
Treaty of Redon
1489
Troops sent to Brittany
1491
English invasion of France by Henry VII
1492
Treaty of Etaples
Nov 1492
Pension Henry VII gets from France
50,000 crowns a year
5% of his annual income
Treaty of Ayton
1497
Agree marriage of James and Margaret
1501
Treaty of Perpetual Peace
1502
Wedding of Margaret and James
1503
Simnel crowned king in Ireland
1486
Poynings law
1495
Kildare reinstated
1496
Trade embargo on Burgundy
1493
Intercursus Magnus
1496
Death of Margaret of Burgundy
1503
Treaty of Windsor
1506
Don’t join league of Cambrai
1508
Treaty of Medina del Campo
1489
Wedding of Arthur and Catherine
1501
Death of Arthur
1502
Death of Isabella of Castille
1504
Death of Phillip of Spain
1506
How many nobles under Henry VII
50 - 60
Laws against retaining
1487
Gentry numbers
500 knights
800 esquires
5000 gentlemen
1% of population
Population in North-West
1/4
Population in South-East
3/4
Yorkshire rebellion
1489
Cornish rebellion
1497
Number of people in Cornish rebellion
15,000
Population of England under Henry VII
2.2 million
Percentage of Henry VII’s England living in rural areas
90%
Population of London
50,000
Anti enclosure acts
1489
Percentage of trade that was cloth at the end of the 1400s
90%
Deal made with Hanse by Henry VII
1504
Navigation acts
1485
1489
Found Newfoundland
1497
Percentage of males in monasteries
1% in 1500
Number of monasteries
900
Desiderius Erasmus came to England
1499
Number of new grammar schools under Henry VII and dates
53 new 1460 - 1509
Printing came to England
1476
Mystery plays at Corpus Christi in Bishop’s Stratford Hertfordshire
1490
Lady Chapel Westminster decided on
1502
Eton choir book published
1503
Conciliar government at start of Henry VIII’s reign
1509 - 1514
Wolsey in power
1514 - 1529
Wolsey became royal chaplain to Henry VII
1507
Wolsey became Archbishop of York
1514
Wolsey became a cardinal
1515
Wolsey became papal legate
1518
Wolsey became Lord Chancellor
1515
How many monasteries Wolsey shut down
24
Cases heard by court of chancery per year
120
12 under Henry VII
National tax survey and money raised
1522
£200,000
first since 1086
Recoinage
1526
Enquiries into enclosure
1517 + 18
Landowners opposed enquiries into enclosure in Parliament
1523
Wolsey removed Henry’s minions from the privy council
1519
Eltham Ordinances
1526
Amicable grant
1523
Wolsey sent to get annulment
1525
Special court called to get the annulment
1527
Cardinal Campeggio sent
1529
Wolsey charged
1529
Death of Wolsey
1530
Glory in war was Henry VIII’s foreign policy
1509 - 1514
Renewed treaty of Etaples
1510
Creation of Holy League
1510
First invasion of France
1512
Number of men sent on first French invasion
10,000
Second invasion of France
1513
First Scottish war
1513
Wolsey recovered things with France
1514
Marriage of Louis XII and Mary
Oct 1514
Death of Louis XII
January 1515
Treaty of London
1518
Field of cloth of gold
June 1520
Amount field of cloth of gold cost
£15,000
Treaty of Bruges
Aug 1521
More invasions of France
1522 + 3
Battle of Pavia and League of Cognac
1525
Treaty of Amiens
1527
Peace of Cambrai
1529
Break with Rome
1534
Catherine of Aragon dead
1536
Treaty of Nice
1538
Married Anne of Cleves
1539
Dismissed Kildare
1534
Ireland a separate kingdom
1541
Second Scottish invasion Henry VIII
1540
Meant to meet James V in York
1541
Battle of Solway Moss
1542
Treaty of Greenwich
1543
Peace of Ardres
1546
Mary born
1516
Elizabeth born
1533
Edward born
1537
1st succession act
1534
2nd succession act
1536
3rd succession act
1544
Number of new nobles under Henry VIII
9
Duke Buckingham executed
1521
Wales act
1536
Act resuming liberties to the crown
1536
Uprising against amicable grant
1525
Pilgrimage of grace
1536
Legislation against enclosure - Henry VIII
1549, 1515
Act Supremacy Henry VIII
1534
Act 10 articles H8
1536
Dissolution of monasteries done by
1540
Bishop’s book
1537
Injunctions H8
1538
Act 6 articles H8
1539
King’s book H8
1543
Act for advancement of true religion
1543
English litany
1544
Elizabeth Barton nun of Kent arrested
1533
Edward’s reign
1547-53
Members of Edward’s regency council
16
Somerset in power
1547-9
Somerset removed
Aug 1549
Northumberland in power
1550-3
Battle of Pinkie
1547
Cranmner’s homilies
1547
Injunctions - Somerset
1547
Chantries act
1547
Book of common prayer Somerset
1549
Treason act Edward
1552
Book of common prayer Northumberland
1552
Act uniformity Edward
1552
Asset stripping of church -
edward
1553
1st poor law
1552
Western rebellion
1549
Kett’s rebellion
1549
Mary’s reign
1553-8
Anti-spanish pope elected
1555
Loss of calais
1558
Philip not included in treason act with Mary
1554
Philip stopped from having a coronation
1555
1st act of repeal
1553
Burning of heretics started
1555
2nd act of repeal
1555
Pole’s legatine synod
1555-6
Cranmer burnt
1556
Recoinage plans
1556-8
2nd poor law
1555
Wyatt’s rebellion
1554
Act of supremacy - Liz
1559
Act uniformity - Liz
1559
Royal injunctions - Liz
1559
Henry II France dies
1559
Navy sent to Scotland as help - Liz
1559
Army blockade for Scotland - Liz
1560
Francis II dies, MQS sent back to scotland
1560
Treaty Edinburgh
1560
Câteau-Cambrésis
1559
French civil war
1562
Treaty of Troyes
1564
Recoinage
1561
Statute Artifices
1563
Northern rebellion
1569
Council of the north reformed
1572
Essex rebellion
1601
Parliament raise issue of Elizabeth’s marriage
1559
Parliament while queen has smallpox
1563
Parliament press Elizabeth to marry
1566
Parliament and Elizabeth relations deteriorate
1593
Elizabeth has smallpox
1562
MQS in England
1567
Elizabeth excommunicated
1570
Ridolfi plot
1571
Throckmorton plot
1583
Parry threat
1585
Babington plot
1586
MQS executed
1587
Rebellion sparked in Netherlands
1572
Pacification of Ghent
1576
Spanish control all but 2 Dutch provinces
1580
Treaty of Joinville
1584
Portugal annexed by Spain
1580
Treaty of Nonsuch
1585
Spanish armada delayed
1587
Spanish armada sails
1588
Planned Spanish invasion of England
1596
Spanish try to exploit Irish rebellion
1597
Second planned invasion of england by spain
1599
English commander makes peace with Dutch leader
1589
Spanish expelled from northern netherlands
1594
Act aganist vargrancy
1547
1st elizabethan poor law
1572
2nd elizabethan poor law
1576
3rd elizabethan poor law
1597
final elizabethan poor law
1601
Rebellion in south of Ireland
1569-73
Rebellion in Ireland linked to Spain
1579-82
Tyrone’s rebellion in Ulster
1595
Rebels in Ireland win battle of yellow ford
1598
Essex sent to Ireland
1599
3000 troops land in Ireland
1601
Oxfordshire rising
1596
Muscovy company
1555
Eastland company
1579
Turkish company
1581
East India company
1601
Drake returns from circumnavigation
1580
Charter granted to Raleigh for North America
1584
Expedition to Roanoke islands
1584
Further North American expeditions
1585+7