Britain 1534-1801

  • Period: 1509 to 1547

    Henry VIII's reign

  • 1534

    Act of Supremacy by Henry VIII

    Act of Supremacy by Henry VIII
  • 1536

    Destruction of monasteries

    Destruction of monasteries
  • Period: 1536 to 1537

    Pilgrimage of Grace

  • Period: 1547 to 1553

    Edward VI's reign

  • 1549

    Book of Common Prayer

    Book of Common Prayer
  • 1553

    Edward VI dies from tuberculosis and Mary I becomes the first queen of England

    Edward VI dies from tuberculosis and Mary I becomes the first queen of England
  • Period: 1553 to 1558

    Mary I's reign

  • Period: 1558 to

    Elizabeth I's reign

  • 1559

    Act of Supremacy by Elizabeth I

  • 1559

    Act of Uniformity by Elizabeth I

  • Period: 1563 to 1571

    Doctrine of the church/new ecclesiology/new doctrine of Salvation/new definition of sacrements and the mass

  • 1569

    The Northern Rebellion

    The Northern Rebellion
  • 1570

    Elizabeth I started persecuting small secret communities of catholics

  • Period: to

    James I's reign (in England)

  • The Gunpowder Plot

  • First permanent colony, Virginia

  • Period: to

    Starving time

  • The Great Contract

  • New translation of the Bible: King James' Bible

  • Period: to

    The Thirty year's war

  • Petition of Rights

  • The Three Resolutions

  • Period: to

    The Personal Rule

  • Period: to

    The Scottish Crisis

  • The Grand Remonstrance

  • Militia Act

  • The Irish Rebellion

  • Period: to

    English Civil War

  • Charles declared war to the Parliament

  • The New Model Army

  • The King and the Royalists are surrounded

  • The New Model Army seized the King

  • Pride's Purge

  • Period: to

    Second Civil War

  • Monarchy and The House of the Lords was abolished and England was declared a Commonwealth

  • Charles I was executed

  • Cromwell defeated the Scots Army

  • The Instrument of Government

  • Cromwell dissolved the Rump

  • Period: to

    The Cromwellian Protectorate

  • Cromwell's death

  • Declaration of Breta

  • The Restoration

  • Outbreak of Plague

  • Great Fire of London

  • The Popish Plot

  • Period: to

    The Execution Crisis

  • Charles II died and was succeeded by James II

  • The Bills of Rights

  • The Act of Settlement

  • William of Orange died and was succeeded by Anne the last Stuart

  • Act of Union between England and Scotland