ENL 10A Final dates studyguide

1382–96

Wycliffite Bible

1509–47

Reign of Henry VIII – son of Henry VII

1516

Publication of Utopia (Sir Thomas More)

1534

The Act of Supremacy makes Henry VIII the head of the English Church (thus breaking with the Pope and Roman Catholicism); formal beginning of the English Reformation

1539

Publication of the “Great Bible (by Miles Coverdale based on Tyndale)

1547–53

Reign of Edward VI – son of Henry VIII

1553–58

Reign of Mary Tudor – daughter of Henry VIII

1558–1603

Reign of Elizabeth I – daughter of Henry VIII

1563

John Foxe (Book of Martys)

1564–1616

William Shakespeare

1590

First three books of Spenser’s Faerie Queene published (last three 1596)

1595/96

First performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream

1603–25

Reign of James I (of England; also James VI of Scotland) – son of Elizabeth I’s first cousin Mary Stuart

1625-49

Reign of Charles I - Son of James I; deposed and beheaded 1649