Timeline Religious Events Flashcards
1514
Wolsey appointed archbishop of York
1515
Wolsey appointed Cardinal
1528
Legatine court enquiring into the validity of the king’s marriage
1532
Thomas Cranmer appointed Archbishop of Canterbury
1533
Act in Restraint of Appeals
1534
Act of Supremacy
1536
Pilgrimage of Grace
1536
- Beginning of dissolution of the monasteries
- First set of royal injunctions issued
- Ten Articles issued
1538
Second set of royal injunctions issued
1539
- Six Articles Act
- First edition of the Great Bible published
1547
Third set of royal injunctions issued
1549
Act of Uniformity and issue of first Book of Common Prayer
1552
Act of Uniformity and issue of second Book of Common Prayer
1553
- 42 Articles of Religion
- Pole appointed papal legate to England
1555
- Restoration of Heresy Law
- Burning for Heresy resumes
1556
Execution of Cranmer
1557
Paul IV revokes Pole’s papal legateship
1559
- Acts of Supremacy and Uniformity
- Fourth set of royal injunctions issued
- Matthew Parker appointed Archbishop of Canterbury
1563
- 39 Articles issued
- Publication of Foxe’s Book of Martyrs
1566
Parker’s Advertisements
1570
Elizabeth excommunicated by Pope Pius V
1572
Cartwright and Field begin campaign for reform of organisation of English Church
1574
Arrival of first Catholic missionary priests
1575
Edmund Grindal appointed Archbishop of Canterbury
1577
- Suspension of Grindal
- Execution of first Catholic priest Cuthbert Mayne
1580
Arrival of first Jesuit missionaries
1581
Tightening of anti-Catholic laws
1583
- John Whitgift appointed Archbishop of Canterbury
- Whitgift’s Articles issued
1585
Further tightening of anti-Catholic legislation
1588
First Marprelate tracts published
1593
Execution of separatists