Mid-Tudor Dates

Question 1

When was the Act of Six Articles?

Answer 1

1539

Question 2

When was Cromwell executed?

Answer 2

1540

Question 3

When were Mary and Elizabeth restored to the line of succession (third act of succession)?

Answer 3

1544

Question 4

When was Wroithelsey appointed Lord Chancellor?

Answer 4

1544

Question 5

When was Somerset appointed Lord Protector?

Answer 5

February 1547

Question 6

When were the Royal Injunctions issued?

Answer 6

July 1547

Question 7

When was the Battle of Pinkie?

Answer 7

September 1547

Question 8

When was the Enclosure Commission?

Answer 8

June 1548

Question 9

When was the Sheep tax?

Answer 9

March 1549

Question 10

When was the First Book of Common Prayer issued?

Answer 10

January 1549

Question 11

When was the First Act of Uniformity?

Answer 11

January 1549

Question 12

When was Thomas Seymour executed?

Answer 12

March 1549

Question 13

When was the Western Rebellion (Prayer Book Rebellion)?

Answer 13

June-August 1549

Question 14

When was Kett’s Rebellion?

Answer 14

July-August 1549

Question 15

When did Somerset fall from power?

Answer 15

October 1549

Question 16

When was the Treaty of Boulogne?

Answer 16

1550

Question 17

When was the Second Book of Common Prayer?

Answer 17

January 1552

Question 18

When was Somerset executed?

Answer 18

January 1552

Question 19

When was the second Act of uniformity?

Answer 19

April 1552

Question 20

When was the Poor Law?

Answer 20

1552

Question 21

When was the Device written?

Answer 21

1553

Question 22

When did Edward die?

Answer 22

July 1553

Question 23

When was Lady Jane Grey proclaimed Queen?

Answer 23

July 1553

Question 24

When was Northumberland executed?

Answer 24

1553

Question 25

When was the First Act of Repeal?

Answer 25

October 1553

Question 26

When was the Wyatt Rebellion?

Answer 26

Jan-Feb 1554

Question 27

When did Mary I detain Elizabeth I first?

Answer 27

March 1554

Question 28

When did Mary marry Philip?

Answer 28

July 1554

Question 29

When was the Second Act of Repeal?

Answer 29

January 1555

Question 30

When did Mary I begun her persecution of the Protestant ‘heretics’?

Answer 30

1555

Question 31

When is Thomas Cranmer burnt at the stake?

Answer 31

March 1556

Question 32

When did Mary lose Calais?

Answer 32

January 1558

Question 33

When does Mary die?

Answer 33

Novemeber 1558

Question 34

How many parliaments under Edward VI?

Answer 34

2

Question 35

What year was the only year without a parliament?

Answer 35

1551

Question 36

How many Principal Gentlemen was there and how many ordinary gentlemen?

Answer 36

6 and 26

Question 37

When was there a period of acute price inflation?

Answer 37

1540s

Question 38

How much did the debased coinage continue to raise?

Answer 38

£537,000

Question 39

When was there a bad harvest under Edward?

Answer 39

1548

Question 40

When were there harvest failures under Mary?

Answer 40

1555 and 1556

Question 41

When did sweating sickness affect the country?

Answer 41

1557 and 1558

Question 42

Who created plans to fix the debased coinage and when?

Answer 42

Mary, 1556 - 1558

Question 43

What kind of financial reform was done under Mary?

Answer 43

revenue administration - court of the exchequer took over first fruit and tenths and augmentations and used superior methods.