Mary I

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Second Act of Repeal - repealed all religious legislation after 1529 & compromise with land owners of church land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