tudors dates 1485-1558

22 August 1485

Battle of Bosworth and start of Henry VII's reign

30 October 1485

Henry VII's coronation

18 January 1486

Henry marries Elizabeth of York, uniting the Lancaster and York houses and ending the Wars of the Roses

19/20 September 1486

Arthur was born

16 June 1487

Battle of Stoke, defeat of Lambert Simnel

27 March 1489

Treaty of Medina del Campo

28 June 1491

Henry VIII was born

5 March 1496

Henry gave John Cabot a patent to find land in the New World

4 October 1497

Perkin Warbeck captured and imprisoned

23 November 1499

Perkin Warbeck executed

14 November 1501

Arthur marries Catherine of Aragon

24 January 1502

Treaty of Perpetual Peace

2 April 1502

Arthur dies

21 April 1509

Henry VII dies and Henry VIII takes the throne

11 June 1509

Henry VIII marries Catherine of Aragon

24 June 1509

Coronation of Henry and Catherine

30 June 1513

Henry invaded France

9 September 1513

Battle of Flodden Field

24 December 1515

Cardinal Wolsey becomes Lord Chancellor

18 February 1516

Mary I born

1518

Treaty of London

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26 June 1520

15 August 1521

Treaty of Bruges

1527

Treaty of Westminster

22 June 1527

Henry separated from Catherine

September 1527

Henry wrote to the Pope requesting an annulment

31 May 1529

Cardinal Campeggio opened his legatine court

17 October 1529

Wolsey removed from post of Chancellor after failing to secure divorce

(18 March) 1532

Supplication Against Ordinaries

15 May 1532

Thomas More and Bishop Fisher refused to sign Submission of Clergy (More resigned as Lord Chancellor following day)

25 January 1533

Henry married Anne Boleyn

30 March 1533

Cranmer made Archbishop of Canterbury

11 July 1533

Henry and his council excommunicated

7 September 1533

Elizabeth I born

February 1534

Act of Annates passed

3 November 1534

Act of Supremacy declared Henry Head of the Church

7 January 1536

Catherine of Aragon died

24 January 1536

Henry had his fall during the joust

2 May 1536

Anne Boleyn was arrested for treason

19 May 1536

Anne Boleyn executed

30 May 1536

Henry marries Jane Seymour

June 1536

Succession Act that declared Elizabeth illegitimate like Mary

8 June 1536

Dissolution of the monasteries began

13 October 1536

Pilgrimage of Grace started

12 October 1537

Edward born

24 October 1537

Jane Seymour dies

16 May 1539

Statute of Six Articles passed

6 January 1540

Henry marries Anne of Cleves

10 June 1540

Cromwell charged with treason

9 July 1540

Marriage with Anne annulled

28 July 1540

Henry marries Kathryn Howard

12 November 1541

Kathryn Howard arrested for treason

13 February 1542

Kathryn executed

24 November 1542

Battle of Solway Moss

12 July 1543

Henry marries Katherine Parr

7 February 1544

New Succession Act settled

May 1544

Henry VIII led army into France

14 September 1544

Henry took Boulogne

28 January 1547

Henry VIII dies and Edward VI comes to throne

1547

Edward Seymour made Lord Protector

15 January 1549

Act of Uniformity

16 January 1549

Seymour arrested and charged with treason

June 1549

Prayer Book rebellion

21 June 1553

Devise for the Succession nominating Jane Grey as heir

10 July 1553

Edward dies and Lady Jane Grey becomes Queen

19 July 1553

Mary becomes Queen and imprisons Jane

1 October 1553

Mary's coronation

February 1554

Wyatt rebellion

25 July 1554

Mary marries Phillip of Spain

4 February 1555

Public burnings started

7 June 1557

England declared war on France

7 January 1558

French took back Calais

17 November 1558

Mary died and Elizabeth takes throne

15 January 1559

Elizabeth's coronation