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1491   Henry VIII born at Greenwich on 28 June

1502  Older brother Prince Arthur died, Henry became heir

1509   Henry VIII Acceded on the death of his father Henry VII

1509   Crowned at Westminster Abbey, 24 June

1509   Married Catherine of Aragon, Arthur's widow
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1509   Wolsey appointed Royal Almoner
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1510 Henry's first parliament
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1511 Catherine delivers a boy

1512 Parliament Debated war funding 

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1513  War against France and Scotland 

1514  Henry's sister, Mary married King of France, Louis XII.

1515  Thomas Wolsey became a Cardinal and Chancellor of England

1516  Birth of Princess Mary, later Mary I

1517  Martin Luther published 95 theses against the Roman Catholic Church

1518  Wolsey made Papal legate

1518  Treaty of London for peace in Christendom

1519   Death of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian; succeeded by Charles V

1519   Affair of the minions

1520  Meeting between Henry VIII and Francis I at the Field of Cloth

1521  Henry VIII is given title ‘Defender of the Faith’ by the Pope 

1521  Secret treaty signed at Bruges between Wolsey and Charles V against France

1522 Charles V returned to Spain protected by English navy

1523 England invaded France
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1523 Duke of bourbon rebelled against King of France Francis I

1524 Wolsey begins secret peace negotiations with France

1525 Battle of Pavia – Francis I taken prisoner
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1525  Amicable Grant debacle

1526 Eltham Ordinances

1527 Henry announced wish annulment of marriage to Catherine of Aragon

1528 Cardinal Campeggio arrived in London from Rome to judge Henry’s marriage

1529  Battle of Landriano – French defeated in Italy

1529  Fall of Wolsey

1529  First Reformation Parliament

1530  Cardinal Wolsey accused of treason, but died at Leicester en route from York to London to face charges 

1530  Thomas More became Chancellor of England

1531 Clergy accused clergy with praemunire and pay a £100.000 settlement

1532 to 1534 Acts of Parliament to create a new English church with Henry VIII as its head

1532  Meeting at Calais and Boulogne between Francis I and Henry VIII, he his accompanied across the Channel by Anne Boleyn

1533   Henry's marriage to Catherine annulled by Thomas Cranmer

1533   Henry married to Anne Boleyn

1533   Birth of Princess Elizabeth, later Elizabeth I

1533   Pope Clement ruled that Henry’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon is legal and he  must take her back as his wife

1534   Pope Clement died; succeeded by Paul III

1535  More and Fisher executed after refusing to accept the Oath of Supremacy 

1535   Visitations to Monasteries and Valor Ecclesiasticus

1536   Death of Catherine of Aragon

1536   Dissolution of Smaller Monasteries

1536   Anne Boleyn executed and downfall of her faction

1536   Henry married Jane Seymour

1536   Rebellion in the north of England – Pilgrimage of Grace

1536  Act of Ten Articles

1537 Prince Edward later Edward I is born to Jane Seymour

1537  Jane Seymour died following the birth

1537  The Bishops’ Book was printed

1538  Injunctions for relics and shrines to be destroyed

1538  First of the larger monasteries closed

1539  Second Dissolution Act

1540  Henry married then divorced Anne of Cleves

1540  Waltham, the last remaining monastic house closed

1540  Thomas Cromwell executed
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1540 Henry married Catherine Howard

1541 The Norther progress and adultery 


1542 Catherine Howard executed

1543  Henry married Catherine Parr

1544  England invaded France

1545 Mary Rose lost in the Solent
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1546 Norfolk and Surrey arrested


1547  Henry VIII died, Whitehall 

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