Dates of Mary's reign
1553-58
Many prominent protestant clergy were deprived of their livings
1553
Cranmer arrested for his role in the Lady Jane Grey coup alongside Hugh Latimer, Hooper, Ridley etc
1553
Act of Repeal passed by parliament
1553
Mary gives up the title of Supreme Head of the Church
1553
Mass exodus of protestants to Germany and Switzerland, approx 800.
1554
Parliament reject reintroduction of heresy law
1554
Protestant bishops of Gloucester, Hereford, Lincoln and Rochester all lose their posts - replaced by committed Catholics
1554
Publication of Bonner's Book of homilies
1555
Second Act of Repeal - repealed all religious legislation after 1529 & compromise with land owners of church land
1554
England restored to papal obedience by Pole
1554
Mary appoints a commission to consider rebounding some of the religious houses
1555
Latimer and Ridley burned in Oxford
1555
Many protestants are burned for heresy
1556
Re-foundation of the Benedict house of Westminster (monastic house)
1556
Total number of people burned for heresy
289
Marriage to Philip II of Spain
1554
Naval and militia reforms
6 new ships built, £14000 p.a. to the navy
Loss of Calais
1558
Wyatt's Rebellion - xenophobia
1554
Lady Jane Grey executed
1554
Treaty of Vaucelles - truce between Charles V and Henry II
1556
Influenza epidemic
1557-8
How many people died in the influenza epidemic?
6% of the population
Militia Act
1558
Book of Rates - boosted customs revenue
1558
How much extra debt was England in by the end of the reign
115,000
Parliament agreed to the reintroduction of the heresy laws in return for a promise that former monastic lands would not be restored to Church ownership
1554
Refounding of some small religious houses
1557
Pole called to Rome to answer heresy charges, but Mary does not give him leave to go
1557
First Protestant martyr
John Rogers, burned in 1555
England sends 6000 troops to Netherlands
1556
Elizabeth sent to Tower of London
1554
Pole appointed Archbishop of Canterbury
1555
Burning of Archbishop Cranmer
1556
England declared war on France
1557
Anti-Spanish Pope Paul IV succeeded Pope Julius
1555
Pope withdraws Pole's legatine commission, led to crumbling of Anglo-papal relations
1557