Full Timeline

Henry VII

1485

• The Battle of Bosworth (D)

• Henry VII’s coronation (D)

• Henry VII summons parliament and is granted tunnage and poundage (D)

• Laws passed against retaining & parliament swore not to retain illegally (D)

• JP powers of arrest extended to cover poachers and hunters (D)

• Navigation Act (F)

1486

• Henry VII marries Elizabeth of York (D)

• Royal Progress to the north (D)

• The heir and mix of York & Lancaster is born (D)

• John Morton becomes Lord Chancellor & Archbishop of Canterbury (D)

• Act of resumption (D)

• Lovell’s rebellion (D)

• Lambert Simnel appears in Ireland (D/F)

• Truce with Scotland (James III)

• Commercial treaty with Brittany

1487

• The star chamber act creates the Star Chamber (D)

• The Privy chamber is used for the administration of finance (D)

• Income from warship and marriages £350 p/a (see 1507) (D)

• Battle of Stoke & Simnel rebellion (D)

• French troops sent into Brittany- Henry remains neutral

1488

• Scottish nobles kill James III, James IV instated as king and influenced to hate the English

• the French defeat Brittany and war breaks out as nobles resist the French’s attempt to claim custody of Anne

1489

• Yorkshire rebellion & death of Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland

• Medina Del Campo

• Parliament vote for taxes to support the Bretons- the 30,000 troops fail due to lack of other foreign powers aid

1490

• Henry sends more troops and Maximillian agrees to marry Anne

1491

• JP’s granted power to grant bail

• £48,000 raised for war in Brittiany

• Anne agrees to marry Charles VIII

• First claim of royalty by Warbeck

1492

• Henry sends 12,000 men to France, the French propose the treaty of etalpes so they can focus on Italy, paying 5000 p/a and promising not to support claimants

1493

• Philip IV of Burgandy rules in his own right, but ignores henry’s complaints of support for pretenders leading to trade embargo

1494

• Sir Edward Poynings installed as Henry’s representative in Ireland

1495

• JPs given power to vet juries

• James IV supports warbeck

• Warbeck lands at Kent

1496

• Kildare restored in ireland

1497

• Cornish rebellion

• Peace treaty signed at Ayton

• Trade embargo ends

1498

1499

• Warbeck executed

• Earl of Warwick executed

1500

1501

• Marriage of prince Arthur and Catherine

1502

• Prince Arthur dies

• James IV and Margaret married

• Edmund de la pole flees but returns

1503

• Empson and Dudley lead the council learned in law

• Elizabeth of York dies

• Margaret and James IV marry

1504

• Laws passed against retaining

• Henry receives £30000 from parliament for the knighting of his dead son

• Henry agrees to back philip against Ferdinand for Edmund

• Isabella of Castille dies

1505

1506

• Intercursus malus

• Death of Philip of burgundy

1507

• Lord Burgavenny convicted of retaining 471 men and was fined £70,000

• income from warship and marriages £6000

1508

• League of cambri formed

1509

• Henry VII dies

Henry VIII

1509

• Henry VIII ascends to the throne

1510

1511

• Henry in France

1512

• Henry in France

1513

• Earl of Suffolk/ Edmund de la pole executed

• Battle of the spurs

• Battle of Flodden

• Wolsey in effect as Henry Chief advisor

1514

• Peace treaty with France- Treaty of Saint Germain-En-Laye

1515

• Wolsey made lord chancellor

• Wolsey made cardinal

• Wolsey seen as chief minister

1516

• Battle of Margiano- Francis wins Milan

1517

• Luther publishes his 95 Theses

1518

• Wolsey appointed Papal Legate

• Treaty of London

1519

• Charles V, elected HRE

1520

• The field of the cloth of gold

1521

1522

• War declared against France

1523

• Wolsey becomes bishop of Durham

1524

• Calais/Brugge conference

1525

• Amicable grant revolts

1526

• League of Cognac: An alliance formed by France, the Papal States, and other Italian states against the Habsburgs.

1527

• Henry approaches the Pope and Charles V about annulling the marriage

1528

• Pope Clement VII agreed to send cardinal Campeggio to hear the case

• Thomas More conducts heresy trials against suspected Lutherans

1529

• Wolsey becomes bishop of Winchester

• Treaty of Cambri

• Case collapses and Wolsey stripped of offices

• More appointed Lord Chancellor

• parliament encouraged to voice anti-clerical feelings

1530

• Wolsey dies on his way to trial

• Revival of Praemunire- 15 of the upper clergy charged

• Scholars from oxbridge sent to european universities to find support for the annulment

1531

• Clergy is pardoned but forced to recognise him as “sole protector and supreme head” of the church, which was comprimised to “As far as the law of Christ allows”

1532

• More resigns after Submission of the clergy

• Supplication against the ordinaries introduced into the house of commons

• Henry demands the clergy should agree to the submission of the clergy, giving henry power to veto church laws and choose bishops without Rome’s approval

• Act of Parliament passed preventing the payment of annates to Rome

• Death of William Warham, archbishop of canterbury, replaced by Cranmer

• Cromwell becomes master of the kings jewels

1533

• Henry and Anne get married in secret

• Elizabeth born

• Act in restraint of appeals passed

• Cromwell becomes chancellor of the exchequer and master of the rolls

1534

• More refuses to take the oath of succession, which recognised the legality of the annulment

• Act of supremacy

• Treasons Act

• Act of first fruit and tenths

• Execution of Elizabeth Barton, Nun of Kent

1535

• More convicted of treason and executed

• Bishop John Fisher executed

• Cromwell appointed vicar general

• Valor Ecclesiasticus

• Comperta monastica

1536

• Cromwell Became Lord privy seal and principle secretary on the royal council

• The act for the dissolution of smaller monasteries was passed

• Ten articles

• First set of injunctions passed

• Pilgrimage of Grsce begins

1537

• First official translation of the bible published

1538

• Second set of injunctions passed

1539

• The Act for the dissolution of the larger monasteries passed

• Six articles published

1540

• Cromwell made Lord great chaimberlain and Earl of Essex

• Court of augmentations established

• Henry marries Anne of Cleves

• Cromwell executed

• Marriage to Catherine Howard

1541

• Henry declares himself king or Ireland

1542

• Battle of Solway moss

• Execution of Catherine Howard

1543

• Marriage to Catherine Parr

• Conservative plot

1544

• Invasion of France and capture of Boulogne

• Succession act

1545

1546

• Treaty of Ardres with France

• Arrest of Norfolk and Surrey

1547

• Execution of Surrey

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