HENRY VIII

The Council Learned in Law abolished

1510

Henry and Catherine marry

11 June 1509

Wolsey made a Cardinal by Pope Leo X and becomes Lord Chancellor

1515

Wolsey appointed Papal Legate by Pope Leo X

1518

Wolsey secures temporary removal of the minions

1519

Eltham Ordinances introduced

1526

Almost all minions exiled to Calais

May 1519

Divorce hearing held in England

June 1529

Church charged of praemunaire but withdrawn in 1531 on payment of £119,000

1530

Anne Boleyn executed

May 1536

Act of Dissolution of Smaller Monasteries

1536

Catherine of Aragon dies

January 1536

Lincolnshire Rising

October 1536

Pilgrimage of Grace renewed in Cumberland and the East Riding

February 1537

Luther publishes 95 Theses

1517

Legal supremacy of the Church challenged by Christopher St. Germain

1528

King becomes Supreme Head of the Church of England - Act of Supremacy

1534

Cromwell appointed Vicegerent in religious matters - significant in taking England down a more reformed religious rout

1535

Act of Ten Articles - rejected 4/7 sacraments of Catholic belief and confirmed a belief only in 3 - baptism, Eucharist and penance

1536

Bishop's Book- kept the status of priests, mass and purgatory vague (all issues central to Catholicism and book perceived as reducing in importance )

1537

Act of the Dissolution of the Larger Monastries

1538

Court of Augmentations established

1540

Act of First Fruits and Tenths - holders of church jobs had to pass money to the king

1534

Act for the Dissolution of the Smaller Monastries

1536

Six Articles Act - confirmed transubstantiation and forbade the taking of communion in both kinds

1539

King's Book - defended transubstantiation and six articles

1543

Jane Seymour dies

1537

Cromwell executed

28 July 1540

Catherine Howard executed

13 February 1542

Henry marries Anne of Cleves

1540

First Tudor Poor Law: Vagabonds Act

1531

Renewal of the Treaty of Etaples

1510

First invasion of France

1512

Battle of the Spurs

1513

Battle of Flodden

September 1513

Louis XII marries Mary Tudor

1514

Louis XII dies and is replaced by Francis I

1515

Duke of Albany sent to Scotland

1517

Treaty of London

1518

Field of Cloth of Gold

June 1520

Treaty of Bruges (England and HRE/Spain)

1521

Charles V victorious over the French at the Battle of Pavia

1525

England linked with the anti-Imperial League of Cognac

1526

Sack of Rome

1527

Treaty of Amiens (England and France)

1527

Peace of Cambrai (France/HRE)

1529

Fall of Wolsey

1529

Henry begins break with Rome

1533

Renewal of Fighting between HRE/Spain and France

1536

Treaty of Nice (HRE/France)

1538

Battle of Solway Moss

1542

Treaty of Greenwich (England and Scotland)

1543

Battle of Ancrum Moor

1545

Act in Restraint of Appeals - prevented any appeals to any authority outside of England on the list of issues mentioned din the act such as divorce - prevented Catherine from appealing to pope of divorce and allowed Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer to pronounce on it

1533

Wolsey becomes papal legate for life

1524

Act of succession - ends Catherine’s claim to be Henry’s wife and therefore makes Henry illegitimate and makes marriage with Anne legal and treason to criticise it

1534

Act in Restraint of Annates - banned the payment of most clerical taxes to Rome

1532

Thomas Moore resigns

1532

The Dispensations act - stopped all payments to Rome and gave the archbishop on Canterbury the right to decide all Legal cases that departed from church law

1534

Treason act - made it a crime to criticise changes, marriage and succession

1534

Royal Injunctions - attacked Catholic practice of pilgrimages and encouraged religious instruction

1536

John Lambert executed for rejecting transubstantiation

1538

Publication of Great Bible

1539

Dissolution of greater monasteries

1539

Act For The Advancement of True Religion - restricted access to the Bible for upper classes

1543

Introduction of English Litany replacing Catholic use of Latin Litany - move towards Protestantism

1544

Henry burnt Anne Askew for denying transubstantiation suggesting still willing to uphold Catholic beliefs

1546