The English Reformation

  • Period: Aug 22, 1485 to Apr 21, 1509

    Reign of King Henry VII

  • Period: Apr 21, 1509 to Jan 28, 1547

    Reign of King Henry VIII

  • Apr 1, 1510

    Henry VIII sent Golden Rose

    Henry VIII sent Golden Rose by Pope Julius II
  • Jan 28, 1514

    Thomas More became Master of Requests and Member of the Privy Council

  • Jan 29, 1514

    Henry bestowed with the honorific cap and sword

    Leo X bestowed the honorific cap and sword, which were presented with much solemnity at St. Paul's.
  • Period: Jan 29, 1515 to Jan 29, 1529

    Tomas Wolsey Lord Chancellor

  • Jan 1, 1525

    Tyndale Completes The New Testament in English

  • Period: Jan 28, 1529 to Jan 28, 1532

    Thomas More Lord Chancellor

  • Jan 1, 1530

    Tyndale writesThe Practyse of Prelates

    Tyndale, wrote The Practyse of Prelates, opposing Henry VIII's planned divorce from Catherine of Aragon, in favour of Anne Boleyn, on the grounds that it was unscriptural and was a plot by Cardinal Wolsey to get Henry entangled in the papal courts of Pope Clement VII.
  • Oct 6, 1536

    Tyndale Executed

    Tyndale was tried on a charge of heresy in 1536 and condemned to death, despite Thomas Cromwell's intercession on his behalf. The traditional date of commemoration is 6 October, but records of Tyndale's imprisonment suggest the actual date of his execution might have been some weeks earlier. Tyndale's final words were reported as "Lord! Open the King of England's eyes."
  • Dec 17, 1538

    Henry VIII excommunicated

    Four years into his pontificate, Paul III excommunicates Henry VII
  • Period: Jan 28, 1547 to Jan 6, 1553

    Reign Of King Edward VI

  • Period: Jul 19, 1553 to Nov 17, 1558

    Reign of Queen Mary I

    Reign of Queen Mary I
  • Period: Nov 17, 1558 to

    Reign of Queen Elizebeth I