Tudors Dates

OCR History A Level Tudors

October 1485

Henry VII crowned king

1486

Commercial treaty with Brittany

January 1486

Marriage of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York

July 1486

Conspiracy of Lovell and Stafford

September 1486

Birth of Prince Arthur

September 1486

Act of Resumption Passed

January 1487

Renewal of Treaty with Maximilian, heir to the Holy Roman Empire

June 1487

Simnel's rebellion and Battle of Stoke

1489

Yorkshire Rebellion

February 1489

Treaty of Reddon with Brittany

March 1489

Treaty of Medina del Campo with Spain

1491-99

Warbeck's Rebellion

June 1491

Birth of Prince Henry

November 1492

Treaty of Etaples with France

September 1493

Temporary trade embargo on cloth trade with the Netherlands because of Perkin Warbeck

1495-96

Henry joins the League of Venice (later the Holy League)

February 1496

trade agreement Magnus Intercursus signed with Burgundy

October 1496

Henry and Ferdinand of Aragon sign further marriage agreement

May 1497

Cornish Rebellion

October 1497

Warbeck surrenders

November 1499

Warbeck hung

November 1501

Marriage of Prince Arthur and Catherine of Aragon

January 1502

Peace of Ayton (treaty of perpetual peace) with Scotland

April 1502

Death of Prince Arthur

February 1503

Death of Queen Elizabeth

August 1503

Marriage of Henry's daughter Margaret to James IV of Scotland

April 1506

Edmund de la Pole imprisoned in the Tower

April 1506

Magnus Intercursus signed with Burgundy

December 1508

League of Cambrai

April 1509

Death of Henry VII

April 1509

Accession of Henry VIII

June 1509

Henry VIII marries Catherine of Aragon

August 1513

Battle of the Spurs

September 1513

Defeat of the Scots at Flodden Field

1514

Wolsey becomes chief minister

September 1515

Wolsey becomes cardinal

November 1515

Wolsey appointed Lord Chancellor

February 1516

Mary Tudor born

May 1518

Wolsey appointed papal legate

October 1518

Treaty of London

June 1520

Field of Cloth of Gold

August 1521

Wolsey met Francis I of France at Calais

August 1521

Wolsey met Charles V at Bruges

April 1525

Amicable Grant

August 1525

Treaty of the More with France

January 1526

Eltham Ordinances

May 1527

Wolsey instructed to explore the possibility of a divorce

October 1529

Wolsey removed from power

November 1529

Reformation parliament is called

December 1532

Anne Boleyn becomes pregnant

January 1533

Secret marriage to Anne Boleyn

February 1533

Act of Restraint of Appeals

November 1534

Act of Supremacy

February 1536

Act for the Dissolution of the Smaller Monasteries

July 1536

Ten Articles

October 1536

Pilgrimage of Grace

June 1538

Peace between France and Spain creates fear of invasion

April 1539

Publication of the Great Bible (the first in English)

June 1539

Six Articles

Jan-July 1540

marriage and divorce from Anne of Cleves

July 1540

Cromwell executed

July 1540

marriage to Catherine Howard

February 1542

execution of Catherine Howard

November 1542

Battle of Solway Moss

February 1543

Alliance with Charles V

May 1543

King's Book

July 1543

marriage to Catherine Parr

September 1544

Invasion of France, Boulogne captured

December 1546

Henry drafts his last will

28 January 1547

Death of Henry VIII

31 January 1547

Regency Council established with Somerset as Lord Protector

July 1547

Book of Homilies and Royal Injunctions

November 1547

Dissolution of the Chantries

February 1548

Images to be removed

April 1548

murder of William Body, Helston, Cornwall

June 1548

Commission of inquiry to investigate enclosure in the midlands

Summer 1548

Rural riots in England

Summer 1548

Council voice opposition to Somerset's policies and Hales' commission

December 1548

First book of Common Prayer

January 1549

First act of Uniformity

May 1549

Unrest in Hampshire, Somerset, Wiltshire

June 1549

Introduction of the new Prayer Book

June 1549

Western of Prayer Book rebellion

July 1549

Kett's rebellion in East Anglia

July 1549

Uprisings in Yorkshire, Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, Oxfordshire, and Buckinghamshire

August 1549

Exeter relieved by Lord John Russel

August 1549

Western rebels defeated by Sampford Courtenay

August 1549

Defeat of Kett at Dussindale

October 1549

Fall of Somerset

13 October 1549

Coup removes Somerset

1549-Jan 1550

Struggle for control in the Privy Council

January 1550

New Ordinal

21 February 1550

Northumberland becomes Lord President of the Council

November 1550

Stone altars to be replaced with wooden tables

January 1552

Execution of Somerset

January 1552

Second book of Common Prayer

April 1552

Second act of Uniformity

November 1552

42 articles

May 1553

Northumberland's son marries Lady Jane Grey

June 1553

Devise to exclude Mary Tudor