Henry VIII

  • 1491

    Henry VIII born

  • 1502

    Prince Arthur (H8 brother and first husband of CoA) dies

  • 1502

    Henry VII arranges for his son (H8) to marry CoA

  • 1509

    Henry VIII gets coronated

  • 1509

    Henry VIII marries CoA

  • 1509

    Henry VII died

  • 1510

    H8 executed Empson and Dudley (unpopular ministers)

  • 1511

    Henry VIII joined the Holy League (against France)

  • 1511

    Treaty of Westminster (H8/Ferdinand against France)

  • Period: 1512 to 1514

    First French War (ended because of finances)

  • 1513

    Henry wins the Battle of the Spurs in France

  • 1513

    Henry wins the battle of Flodden in Scotland and James IV dies

  • 1513

    H8 executed Edumund De La Pole (Yorkist threat)

  • 1513

    Henry VIII took Tournai and Therouanne

  • 1514

    Wolsey made Archbishop of York

  • 1514

    H8 made peace with France

  • 1514

    Mary Tudor marries Louis XII

  • 1515

    Louis XII dies

  • 1515

    Francis I declared King of France

  • 1515

    Thomas Wolsey becomes Cardinal

  • 1516

    Mary I is born to H8 and CoA

  • 1516

    Ferdinand dies- Charles V takes control of Spain

  • 1517

    Luther's Ninety Five theses

  • 1518

    Treaty of London, Anglo-French treaty

  • 1518

    Cardinal Wolsey appointed as Papal legate

  • 1519

    H8s illegitimate son, Henry Fitzroy, was born

  • 1519

    Charles V rules all of Burgundy

  • 1519

    Maximillian HRE dies

  • 1520

    Field of the Cloth of Gold- Francis and Henry

  • 1521

    Treaty of Bruges- England and the HRE

  • 1521

    War breaks out between Francis and Charles

  • 1521

    Henry is declared Defender of the Faith by the Pope

  • 1522

    Henry declares war on France

  • 1522

    Treaty of Windsor- Charles V and Henry (anti-France)

  • 1525

    Francis I captured at the Battle of Pavia

  • 1525

    Amicable grant rebellion in the north

  • 1525

    Amicable grant for the invasion of France

  • 1525

    Treaty of More- France and England

  • 1526

    Eltham Ordinances

  • 1526

    Tyndale's English Bible published

  • 1527

    The Sack of Rome

  • 1527

    Treaty of Amiens- France, England and Spain

  • 1528

    The Obedience of a Christian Man published

  • 1528

    England and France declare war on Charles V

  • 1529

    Thomas Cranmer appointed as Chancellor

  • 1529

    Fall of Wolsey- praemunire

  • 1529

    First session of the Reformation Parliament

  • 1529

    Collectanea Satis Copiosa presented to Henry

  • 1531

    Henry declares himself supreme head of the English Church

  • 1532

    Act in Conditional Restraint of Annates (stops payments)

  • 1532

    Supplication against the Ordinaries

  • 1532

    The Submission of the Clergy

  • 1532

    Thomas More resigns

  • 1532

    Cranmer appointed as Archbishop

  • 1533

    Henry and Anne are married

  • 1533

    Act in Restraint of Appeals (appeal to foreign courts)

  • 1534

    Act and an Oath of Succession (for Anne and Henry)

  • 1534

    Elizabeth Barton executed

  • 1534

    Act of Supremacy

  • 1534

    Treason Act

  • 1535

    John Fisher executed

  • 1535

    Valor Ecclesiasticus- financial survey

  • 1536

    Dissolution of the smaller monasteries

  • 1536

    Catherine of Aragon dies

  • 1536

    The Act of Ten Articles- protestant reforms

  • 1536

    Anne Bolyen executed

  • 1536

    Henry married Jane Seymour

  • 1536

    Pilgrimage of Grace and Lincolnshire rebellion

  • 1537

    Jane Seymour dies in childbirth

  • 1539

    Act of Six Articles- Catholic doctrine

  • 1539

    The Great Bible was published

  • 1539

    Act for the Dissolution for the Greater Monasteries

  • 1540

    Henry married Anne of Cleeves but was unable to consumate his marriage

  • 1540

    Anne of Cleeves marriage annulled

  • 1540

    Henry married Catherine Howard

  • 1540

    Cromwell arrested and executed- treason and heresy

  • 1542

    Catherine Howard was executed after Cranmer told Henry she slept with other men

  • 1542

    Henry won at the Battle of Solway Moss

  • 1542

    James V died

  • 1543

    Henry and Charles V pledged to invade France

  • 1543

    Cranmer accused of heresy

  • 1543

    Treaty of Greenwich- England and Scotland

  • 1543

    Henry marries Catherine Parr

  • 1543

    Scotland rejects the treaty of Greenwich

  • 1544

    Seige and surrender of Boulogne

  • 1546

    Peace of Ardes- England and France

  • 1546

    Norfolk and Surrey arrested

  • 1547

    Henry VIII dies