Breadth Study 1 & 2 - Changes in governance at the centre & Gaining the co-operation of the localities

Timeline: B.S 1 & B.S. 2

1485 - HENRY VII DEFEATS RICHARD III AT BOSWORTH

1489 - TAX REVOLT IN YORKSHIRE

1490 - JASPER TUDOR CREATED HEAD OF THE COUNCIL OF WALES AND THE MARCHES

1495 - VAGABONDS AND BEGGARS ACT

1504 - PARLIAMENTARY OPPOSITION TO HENRY VII’s TAXATION

1509 - ACCESSION OF HENRY VIII

1513 - INTRODUCTION OF THE FIRST TUDOR SUBSIDY

1515 - HUNNE CASE CAUSES ANTI-CLERICALISM IN PARLIAMENT

1521 - EXECUTION OF THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM

1523 - PARLIAMENTARY OPPOSITION TO HIGH TAXATION

1525 - PRINCESS MARY AND HENRY FITZROY SENT TO WALES AND THE NORTH AS FIGUREHEADS

1529 - FALL OF WOLSEY: BEGINNING OF REFORMATION PARLIAMENT

1533 - ACT IN RESTRAINT OF APPEALS & HENRY VIII MARRIES ANNE BOLEYN

1534 - ACT OF SUPREMACY

1535 - FIRST LAW IN WALES ACT

1536 - WELSH LOCAL CUSTOMARY LAW REPLACED BY ENGLISH COMMON LAW

1537 - COUNCIL OF THE NORTH RE-ESTABLISHED

1540: FALL OF CROMWELL, ESTABLISHMENT OF NEW PRIVY COUNCIL

1542 - SECOND LAW IN WALES ACT & FORST REFERENCE IN PARLIAMENT TO FREEDOM OF SPEECH FOR MPs

1547 - ACCESSION OF EDWARD VI & VAGRANCY ACT

1549-52 - RADICAL RELIGIOUS REFORM, INCLUDING THE FIRST AND SECOND PRAYER BOOKS

1552 - POOR ACT

1553 - ACCESSION OF MARY I

1554 - REPEAL OF ACT OF SUPREMACY; ENGLAND RETURNS TO ROME

1555 - PARLIAMENTARY OPPOSITION TO THE EXILES BILL

1558 - ACCESSION OF ELIZABETH I

1559 - ACT OF SUPREMACY & ESTABLISHMENT OF ELIZABETHAN RELIGIOUS SETTLEMENT

1562 - CONVOCATION PASSES THE THIRTY-NINE ARTICLES

1563 - STATUTE OF ARTIFICERS

1569 - REVOLT OF THE NORTHERN EARLS

1572 - POOR LAW ACT

1576 - PETER WENTWORTH CHALLENGES ELIZABETH IN PARLIAMENT & POOR LAW ACT

1585 - BEGINNING OF WAR WITH SPAIN; LORD LIEUTENANTS SYSTEM BECOMES PERMANENT

1588 - DEFEAT OF SPANISH ARMADA

1597, 1601 - MONOPOLIES DEBATES IN PARLIAMENT

1598 - ACT FOR RELIEF OF THE POOR

1603 - DEATH OF ELIZABETH I