THE TUDORS: ENGLAND 1485-1603 timeline

1485

- Henry VII takes throne following victory at Battle of Bosworth
- Henry's first parliament

1486

- Henry marries Elizabeth of York
- Lovell Rebellion
- Birth of Prince Arthur

1487

- Lambert Simnel imposture
- Defeat of Lincoln at Battle of Stoke
- Export of unfinished cloth by foreign merchants banned

1489

- Yorkshire Rising
- Treaty of Redon
- Treaty of Medina del Campo

1491

- Perkin Warkin Imposture
- Birth of Prince Henry
- War against France

1492

- Treaty of Etaples

1494

- Poynings appointed Lord Deputy in Ireland

1495

- Execution of Sir William Stanley
- Introduction of the Council Learned in the Law under leadership Sir Reginald Bray
- Creation of Privy Chamber

1496

- Intercursus Magnus

1497

- Cornish rebellion
- Surrender of Warbeck

1499

- Execution of Earl of Warwick and Warbeck

1501

- Marriage of Prince Arthur and Catherine of Aragon

1502

- Death of Prince Arthur

1503

- Death of Sir Reginald Bray
- Marriage of Princess Margaret to James IV of Scotland

1506

- Treaty of Windsor
- Intercursus Malus

1509

- Death of Henry VII, accession of Henry VIII
- Empson and Dudley arrested
- Henry VIII's coronation
- Marriage of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon

1510

- Abolition of Council Learned in the law
- Empson and Dudley executed
- Wolsey appointed to Council

1512

- War against France

1513

- Battle of Flodden
- Capture of Thérouanne and Tournai

1514

- Wolsey emerges as chief Minister
- Wolsey appointed archbishop of York
- Princess Mary marries Louis XI of France

1515

- Wolsey appointed Lord Chancellor
- Princess Mary marries Duke of Suffolk
- Wolsey appointed Cardinal

1516

- Birth of Princess Mary

1517

- Completion of Torrigiano's funeral effigies of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York

1518

- Treaty of London

1520

- Field of the Cloth of Gold

1521

- Execution of Duke of Buckingham
- Treaty of Bruges

1523

- War against France

1525

- Opposition of Amicable Grant

1526

- Eltham Ordinances
- League of Cognac

1528

- Legatine enquiring into the validity of the king's marriage

1529

- Fall of Wolsey
- Sir Thomas More appointed Lord Chancellor
- Treaty of Cambrai

1532

- Resignation of More
- Cromwell emerges as Chief Minister
- Thomas Cramner appointed Archbishop of Canterbury

1533

- Henry marries Anne Boleyn
- Birth of Elizabeth
- Princess Mary declared illegitimate
- Act in Restraint of Appeals

1534

- Act of Supremacy

1535

- Execution of Thomas More

1536

- Execution of Anne Boleyn
- Marriage to Jane Seymour
- Elizabeth declared illegitimate
- beginning of dissolution of the monasteries
- First set of royal injunctions issued
- Ten Articles
- Pilgrimage of Grace

1537

- Birth of Prince Edward

1538

- Second set of Royal injunctions issued

1539

- Six Articles Act
- First edition of the 'Great Bible' published

1540

- Marriage to Anne of Cleves; quickly dissolved
- Execution of Cromwell
- Marriage of Henry and Catherine of Howard

1542

- Execution of Catherine Howard
- Battle of Solway Moss (Eng and Scot, English victory)

1543

- Treaty of Greenwich

1544

- Mary and Elizabeth reinstated to succession
- Invasion of France
- Capture of Boulogne
- Currency debasement begins

1545

- Battle of Ancrum Moor (Eng and Scot, Scottish Victory)

1547

- Death of Henry VIII
- Marquis of Hertford (Somerset) appinted Protector
- Third set of Royal injunctions issued
- Invasion of Scotland

1548

Enclosure commission

1549

- Execution of Thomas Seymour
- Fall of Somerset
- Earl of Warwick takes over leadership of government
- Act of Uniformity and issue of first Book of Common Prayer
- Western Rebellion
- Kett's Rebellion

1550

- Warwick becomes Lord President of the Council, and Duke of Northumberland

1552

- Execution of Somerset
- Act of Uniformity and issue of Second Book of Common Prayer

1553

- Death of Edward VI, succeeded temporarily by Lady Jane Grey
- Mary I proclaimed queen
- Execution of Northumberland
- Forty- Two Articles of Religion
- Pole appointed Papal Legate to England

1554

- Wyatt's Rebellion
- Execution of Lady Jane Grey
- Marriage of Mary and Philip of Spain

1555

- Restoration of heresy law
- Burnings for heresy resume
- Harvest failure

1556

- Execution of Cranmer
- Harvest failure

1557

- Pope Paul IV revokes Pole's papal legateship
- War against France
- Influenza epidemic

1558

- Death of Mary I and accession of Elizabeth I
- Sir William Cecil appointed secretary
- Loss of Calais
- Influenza epidemic continues

1559

- Coronation of Elizabeth I
- Acts of Supremacy and Uniformity
- Fourth Set of Royal Injunctions
- Matthew Parker appointed Archbishop of Canterbury
- Treaty of Cateau - Cambrésis signed
- Elizabeth aids the Lords of the Congregation in Scotland

1560

- Treaty of Edinburgh

1561

- Undebased currency completely restored

1562

- Elizabeth seriously ill with smallpox
- Military support for French Huguenots

1563

- Elizabeth urged to marry
- Thirty-Nine articles issued
- Publication of Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs'
- Statute of Artificers

1564

- Treaty of Troyes

1566

- Elizabeth again pressed to marry
- Parker's Advertisements (required conformity in clerical dresses)

1567

- Mary, Queen of Scots forced to abdicate

1568

- Mary, Queen of Scots flees to England
- Clash between Spanish fleet and English fleet under John Hawkins
- Elizabeth impounds Spanish bullion (seizes)

1569

- Northern Rebellion

1570

- Elizabeth excommunicated by Pope Pius V

1571

- Ridolfi plot
- Cecil raised to peerage as Lord Burghley

1572

- Duke of Norfolk executed
- Cartwright and Field began campaign for reform of English Church
- Treaty of Blois

1573

- Walshingham appointed Secretary of State

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

1579

- Marriage negotiations between Elizabeth and Duke of Anjou

1580

- Arrival of first Jesuit missionaries

1581

- Tightening of Anti- Catholic laws

1583

- Throckmorton Plot
- John Whitgift appointed Archbishop of Canterbury
- Whitgif's Articles issued

1584

- Bond of Association
- Expulsion of Spanish ambassador
- Treaty of Joinville

1585

- Parry Plot
- Further tightening of anti- Catholic legislation
- Treaty of Nonsuch
- Start of War between England and Spain

1586

- Babington Plot
- Mary, Queen of Scots convicted of Treason
- Treaty of Berwick

1587

- Mary, Queen of Scots executed
- Successful attack on Spanish fleet in Cadiz

1588

- Death of Earl of Leicester (Robert Dudley)
- First 'Marprelate tracks' published (attacked individual bishops in Anglican Church)
- Defeat of Spanish Armada

1590

- Death of Walshingham

1591

- Robert Cecil promoted to Privy Council

1593

- Execution of separatists

1594

- Start of Tyrone rebellion in Ireland
- Harvest failure

1595

- Harvest failure

1596

- Cecil appointed secretary of state
- Harvest failure
- Food Riots

1597

- Harvest failure
- Reports of starvation in parts of the north

1598

- Death of Lord Burghley
- Defeat of English force in Ireland at Battle of Yellow Ford
- Poor Law enacted

1599

- Cecil appointed Master of Wards
- Essex returns from Ireland

1601

- 'Rebellion' and execution of Earl of essex
- Agitation in Parliament over monopolies
- Poor Laws revised

1603

- Death of Elizabeth I and accession of James I