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- 1415, July 6 - Jan Hus executed as a heretic
- 1496 - Catherine of Aragon's hand secured for Arthur, Prince of Wales, son of Henry VII
- 1501, October - Arthur marries Catherine
- 1502, April - Arthur dies of TB
- 1503 - Henry VII’s wife dies; considers taking Catherine, but decides to pass her to his son Henry VIII
- 1504 - Julius II dissolves marriage between Catherine and Arthur
- 1509, June 11 - Henry VIII marries Catherine
- 1513 - Catherine presides over Battle of Flodden Field
- 1513 - Henry rushes home with keys to Tournai
- 1514, December - Boy born to Catherine; dies 6 weeks later
- 1516, February 18 - Princess Mary born
- 1517, October 31 - Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses on the door of a church in Wittenberg, Germany, formally beginning the Protestant Reformation
- 1524, May - William Tyndale expelled
- 1525 - Thomas Cromwell helps to suppress 29 monasteries
- 1527 - Henry VIII sure of intentions to divorce Catherine
- 1527, May - Catherine
appeals to Rome - 1529, June - Court opens in England for divorce case
- 1529, August - Peace of Cambrai
- 1529, August 9 - Writs for new parliament; Thomas Wolsey removed as Lord Chancellor
- 1529, October 9 - Wolsey charged on Praemunire
- 1529, October 22 - Wolsey confessed his guilt
- 1529, November - ‘Reformation parliament’ comes into being
- 1529, November 3 - Bill of Attainder against Wolsey
- 1530 - Cromwell becomes member of King’s council
- 1530, Spring - Wolsey returns to his see at York
- 1530, Summer - Writs of Praemunire against 15 clergy
- 1530, November - Wolsey in correspondence with French, Holy Roman Emperor, Catherine, Pope
- 1530, November 29 - Wolsey dies on way to trial
- 1530, December - Cromwell part of the King’s council’s inner ring
- 1531 - Henry makes claims to imperial title
- 1531 - Henry extends protection to clergymen denying papal supremacy
- 1532 - Duke of Norfolk, Duke of Suffolk, Earl of Wiltshire fall out of favour
- 1532, March - Supplication Against the Ordinaries
- 1532, March - Act in Conditional Restraint of Appeals
- 1532, May - Submission of the Clergy
- 1532, May 16 - Thomas More resigns
- 1532, December - Anne Boleyn becomes pregnant
- 1533, January - Thomas Cranmer appointed Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1533, March
- Statute in Restraint of Appeals - 1533, May - Cranmer declares marriage null and void
- 1533, June 25 - Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn at Whitehall
- 1533, July 4 - John Frith burned at the stake
- 1533, September - Princess Elizabeth born
- 1534 - Henry begins negotiations with Paul III
- 1534, January to March - Act Concerning Ecclesiastical Appointments and Absolute Restraint of Annates, Act Concerning Peter's Pence and Dispensations, Act of Succession
- 1534, March - Clement VII pronounces marriage valid
- 1534, April - Elizabeth Barton (‘Nun of Kent’) executed
- 1534, November - Act of Supremacy, Treason Act, Act of First Fruits and Tenths
- 1535 - Bishop Gardiner's De Vera Obedientia published
- 1535 - Cromwell appoints Hugh Latimer, Edward Foxe, Nicholas Shaxton to episcopacy
- 1535, May - Middlemore, Exmere, Newdigate locked up for seventeen days. Ten more starve
- 1536 - Ten Articles; Act Extinguishing the Authority of the Bishop of Rome; Campeggio visits England
- 1536, January - Anne miscarries again
- 1536, March - First Act of Dissolution
- 1536, May 19 - Anne Boleyn is executed
- 1536, June 22 - John Fisher executed
- 1536, July 6 - Thomas More executed
- 1536, April - ‘Reformation parliament’ dissolved
- 1536, October 1 - Pilgrimage of Grace, Phase One
- 1536, October 4 - Pilgrimage of Grace led by 18 members of the gentry
- 1536, October 13 - York taken by 10,000 ‘pilgrims’
- 1536, December 8 - Duke of Norfolk offers pardon to rebels
- 1537 - Bishops’ Book, John Rogers produces ‘Matthew Bible’
- 1537, January - Phase Three of Pilgrimage of Grace, led by Sir Francis Bigod
- 1538 - 'Exeter Conspiracy'
- 1539 - Second Act of Dissolution; Henry VIII intervenes to halt the doctrinal reformation
- 1540, January 6 - Henry marries Anne of Cleves
- 1540, July 9 - Henry’s marriage to Anne of Cleves is annulled
- 1540, July 28 - Thomas Cromwell is beheaded
- 1540, July 30 - Robert Barnes is burned at the stake
- 1540, July 30 - Thomas Abel is burned at the stake
- 1543 - Cranmer is arrested on grounds of heresy, The King’s Book is published
- 1544 - Bishop Gardiner is targeted
- 1546 - ‘Creeping to the Cross’ added to the list of forbidden practises
- 1547, January 28 - Henry VIII dies
- 1554, February 12 - Lady Jane Grey is executed
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