Timeline (1485-1603)

1485

- Henry VII takes throne following victory at Battle of Bosworth

- Henry's first parliament

1486

- Henry marries Elizabeth of York

- Lovell Rebellion

- Birth of Prince Arthur

1487

- Imposture of Lambert Simnel

- Defeat of Earl of Lincoln at Battle of Stoke

- Export of unfinished cloth by foreign merchants banned

1489

- Murder of Earl of Northumberland and Yorkshire Rising

- Treaty of Redon

-Treaty of Medina del Campo

Blue: economic events

Red: Political Events

Green: Religious Events

Orange: Social and cultural

Purple: international events (including foreign policy)

1491

- Beginning of imposture of Perkin Warbeck

- Birth of Prince Henry (VIII)

- War against France

1492

- Treaty of Etaples

(Northern France & England)

1494

- Poynings appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland

1495

- Execution of Sir William Stanley

- Introduction of Council Learned in the Law under the leadership of Sir Reginald Bray

- Creation of Privy Chamber

1496

- Intercursus Magnus treaty signed

(Between England and the Netherlands by Henry VII of England and Philip IV of Burgundy)

1497

- Cornish Rebellion

- Surrender of Warbeck

1499

- Execution of the Earl of Warwick and of Warbeck

1501

- Marriage of Prince Arthur and Catherine of Aragon

1502

- Death of Prince Arthur

1503

- Death of Sir Reginald Bray

- Marriage of Princess Margaret to James IV of Scotland

1506

- Treaty of Windsor

- Intercursus Malus treaty agreed

1509

- Death of Henry VII and accession of Henry VIII

- Empson and Dudley arrested

- Henry VIII's coronation

- Marriage of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon

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1510

- Abolition of Council Learned in the Law

- Empson and Dudley executed

- Thomas Wolsey appointed to Council

1512

- War against France

- Re-foundation of St Paul's School

1513

- Battle of Flodden

- Capture of Tournai and Thérouanne

1514

- Wolsey emerges as chief minister

- Wolsey appointed archbishop of York

- Princess Mary marries Louis XI of France

1515

- Wolsey appointed Lord Chancellor

- Princess Mary marries the Duke of Suffolk

- Wolsey appointed cardinal

- Wolsey begins building Hampton Court

1516

- Birth of Princess Mary

- Publication of Thomas More's Utopia

1518

- Treaty of London

1520

- Field of the Cloth of Gold

1521

- Execution of Duke of Buckingham

- Treaty of Bruges

1523

- War against France

1525

- Opposition to imposition of Amicable Grant

1528

- Legatine court enquiring into the validity of the king's marriage

1529

- Fall of Wolsey

- Sir Thomas More appointed Lord Chancellor

- Treaty of Cambrai

1532

- Resignation of More

- Thomas Cromwell emerges as chief minister

- Thomas Cranmer appointed Archbishop of Canterbury

1533

- Henry marries Anne Boleyn

- Birth of Princess Elizabeth

- Princess Mary declared illegitimate

- Act in Restraint of Appeals

1534

- Act of Supremacy

1535

- Execution of Thomas More

1536

- Execution of Anne Boleyn

- Marriage of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour

- Princess Elizabeth declared illegitimate

- Beginning of dissolution of the monasteries

- First set of royal injunctions issued

- Ten Articles issues

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1537

- Birth of Prince Edward

1538

- Second set of Royal injunctions issued

1539

- Six Articles Act

- First edition of the Great Bible published

1540

- Marriage of Henry and Anne of Cleves; quickly dissolved

- Execution of Cromwell

- Marriage of Henry and Catherine Howard

1542

- Execution of Catherine Howard

- Battle of Solway Moss

1543

- Treaty of Greenwich

1544

- Mary and Elizabeth reinstated to succession

- Invasion of France

- Capture of Boulogne

- Currency debasement begins

1545

- Battle of Ancrum Moor

1547

- Death of Henry VIII

- Third set of royal injunctions issued

- Invasion of Scotland

1549

- Execution of Thomas Seymour

- Fall of Somerset

-Earl of Warwick takes over leadership of government

- Act of Uniformity and issue of first Book of Common Prayer

- Western Rebellion

- Kett's Rebellion

1550

- Warwick becomes Lord President of the Council and Duke of Northumberland