English Reformation

Englsih Reformation

Period: Jan 1, 1509 to Dec 31, 1603

King Henry VIII Takes the throne

Apr 22, 1509

Five Facts About Henry Before He Took The Throne:
1: Out of Henry's 6 siblings, only three ended up surviving infancy, and another one, Arthur, died at 15!
2: Henry became the Duke of Cornwall at the age of 10
3:Henry wasn't origionally supposed to become king until his brother died, then he married his brother's widow
4: Henry enjoyed music, athletics, and the arts, and wrote some musical peices himself
5: Henry enjoyed hosting joust tournaments even before he became king

Catherine of Aragon Marries King Henry VIII

Jun 11, 1509

Five facts about Catherine of Aragon
1. She was betrothed to Arthur, Henry's brother at the age of 3
2. After Arthur died, she was betrothed to Henry 14 months later
3. She did have three sons, but all of them did not live long enough to become an heir
4: Henry began to have a growing interest in one of Catherine's misteresses
5. Catherine was divorced because of this mistress, Anne Boleyn

Princess Mary Born

Jan 1, 1516

1. Daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon
2. She became Queen when her brother Edward died
3. When she married, she was eleven years older than her spouse!
4. She never liked Protestants, so she returned England to Roman Catholic
5. She killed hundreds of Protestants, giving her the nickname "bloody Mary"

Divorce of Catherine of Aragon

Jan 1, 1533

Catherine became pregnant and King Henry wanted nothing to do with the kid. He rejected the power of the pope and had Thomas Cranmer announce the divorce. Catherine was forced to give up position as Queen.

Princess Elizabeth Born

Jan 1, 1533

1. The Daughter of King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn
2. She lived the longest out of the three children
3. She repealed the Catholic legislation brought on by her sister
4. She never married
5. She is considered one of England's greatest rulers, kind of ironic considering Henry always wanted a son

Bloody Mary takes the throne

Jan 1, 1533

She marries King Philip II but because she was 11 years older, he had little power on the throne. The English Parliament refused to crown him. Mary returned England to Roman Catholicism. Protestants were persecuted and 300 are burnt at the stake which led to Queen Mary being called Bloody Mary.

Anne Boleyn Marries King Henry VIII

Jan 25, 1533

Five Facts about Anne Boleyn
1. As legend goes, she had six fingers and a massive mole on her neck
2. She had affairs with 3 or more men
3. Anne Boleyn wouldn't be anything for Henry VII until they became married
4. Henry VIII wrote 17 or more letters to Anne Boleyn, and those 17 are preserved
5. The marraige between these two was in secret

Act of Supremacy

Jan 1, 1534

The first Act of Supremacy granted King Henry VIII Royal Supremacy, whuch meant that he ruled the Church of England. It was made clear that the King was not granted the title. Henry abandoned Rome completely and asserted the independence of the Ecclesia Anglicana.

Death of Catherine of Aragon

Jan 7, 1536

She died at Kimbolton Castle and was buried at Peterborough Abbey. She had been ill for a few months but felt worse after drinking an excess of Welsh beer. This is how she is thought to die but there are rumors that she had been poisoned.

Death of Anne Boleyn

May 19, 1536

She was executeted at the Tower Green by an expert swordsman. Before her death, she became hysterical because she knew she was about to die.

The marraige of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour

May 30, 1536

1. She waited on both of Henry VIII's previous wifes
2. Within 24 hours of Anne Boleyn's execution, Jane and Henry were betrothed
3. She gave King Henry VIII his first son
4. Henry considered her to be his "true wife", and she is the only one of Henry's wifes to be buried with him
5. She died after giving birth to Henry's son

Prince Edward born

Jan 1, 1537

Five facts about Edward
1. He was the son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour
2. At the age of ten, he took the throne
3. He was a big Protestant Christian, and supported it constantly
4, He wasn't close with his sisters, and when he became ill, he declared them illigitamite and pronounced a different heir
5. He died at the age of sixteen

Death of Jane Seymour

Oct 27, 1537

Becayse she gave birth to her son by cesarean section, she became weak. She died two weeks after her son's birth.

Henry VIII Marries Anne of Cleves

Jan 6, 1540

Five facts about Anne of Cleves
1. He wed her partially because of a needed alliance
2. He never found her attractive
3. She was uneductated in things Henry enjoyed, such as music and the arts
4. Henry respectfully divorced her, and she took the house of the late Anne Boleyn
5. The alliance between the two kingdoms dissolved before the marraige ended

Divorce of Anne of Cleves

Jul 18, 1540

Dring the marriage on January 6, Henry was already looking for was to escape the marriage. Anne knew that anything she didwould aggrivate Henry. After the divorce, she accepted title as King's Sister.

Henry VIII Marries Kathryn Howard

Jul 28, 1540

1. She was the cousin of Anne Boleyn
2. Only 16 days after Anne of Cleeves was divorced, the two were married
3. Henry was 49 at the time of marraige, yet Kathryn was only 19!
4. Even though Henry VIII was going through tough times, Kathryn Howard helped him regain happiness
5. However, reported affairs and flirtatious attitudes towards other men led to her execution

Death of Kathryn Howard

Feb 13, 1542

In the summer of 1541, the was imprisoned until her execution. On her execution day, her final words were "I die a Queen, but I would rather have died the wife of Culpeper,". She was executed and buried in a grave in the chapel of St Peter

Henry VIII marries Katherine Parr

Jul 12, 1543

Five facts about Katherine Parr
1. Her mother was a lady in waiting of Catherine of Aragon, and named Katherine after her
2. She was married two times before, and widowed both of those times
3. All three of her husbands died while they were married
4. She was very outspoken, and even gained an arrest warrant
5. She wrote two books under her own name, a great thing for a woman to do at the time
5. She wrote two books under her own name

King Edward takes the throne

Jan 1, 1547

He was only 10 years old when he took the throne. He was a was a devout Protestant and introduced a uniform Protestant service based on his Book of Common. A he became sickly, he made Princess Elizabeth his heir to ensure the Protestant religion remained in England.

Death of King Henry VIII

Jan 28, 1547

He had many illness during his life time. These included In suffereing from a bout of smallpox, recurring attacks of malaria and a badly injured leg in a jousting accident. Later in his life, all these illnesses caused insomania, diabetes, strokes and paranoia. The last 8 days of his life were spent laying in bed, too weak to move. He died later that month.

Death of Katherine Parr

Sep 5, 1548

On August 30th she gave birth to a daughter named Mary which led to her becoming ill with puerperal fever. This killed her on the morning of September 5th

Death of King Edward

Jul 6, 1553

Edward was born a sickly child, it was believed that he suffered from from tuberculosis. He became terminally ill and died in 1553.

Death of Anne of Cleves

Jul 16, 1557

The cause of her death was Cancer. She was buried in Westmister Abbey in a "hard to find tomb".

Act of Supermacy

Jan 1, 1558

This revived 10 acts that Queen Mary had reverted. It confirmed Elizabeth as Queen governor of the Church. It was important because many people thought that women could not rule the church. The Oath of Supremacy provided reason for taking public of church office to swear allegance to the monarch.

Queen Elizabeth takes the throne

Jan 1, 1558

Her first act upon the throne was to repeal the Catholic legislation introduced by Mary. During her reign, England prospered and she explored many new lands. She defeated the Spanish Armada and established England as a military power. She is refered to as the greatest of all England's King and Queens.

Death of Bloody Mary

Nov 17, 1558

At the age of 42, she began to be in great pain. This was because of uterine cancer. She dies during an influenza epidemic.

Death of Queen Elizbeth

Mar 24, 1603

In 1602, many of her close friends and family bean to get ill and die. She started to get very depressed. In march, she fell into a "settled and unremovable melancholy". She died later that month.