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Henry VII defeated the Yorkist Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field which ended the War of Roses. He then became King and established the Tudors dynasty. -
Henry VII died and his son, Henry VIII became King. He married Catherine of Aragon, the daughter of a powerful Spanish Catholic King. -
Catherine of Aragon gave birth to a girl. She was not able to give Henry VIII a male heir. -
With the help of Cardinal Wolsey, the King demanded for divorce to Pope Clement VII. The demand was rejected and Henry replaced Cardinal Wolsey by Sir Thomas More.
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Thomas Cranmer was nominated as Archbishop of Canterbury with the help of Ann Boleyn -
This Act gave the King the legal power to annul marriages. The same year, Thomas Cranmer married Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. They had a daughter: Elizabeth I. The same year, the King was excommunicated by the Pope.
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The King was made "Supreme Head of the Church of England."
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Henry VIII decided to disband the monasteries. The people that were against it decided to do the Pilgrimage of Grace (1536-1537). In 1538, every monastery in England had disappeared.
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Henry VII executed Anne Boleyn and married Jane Seymore. They had a son: Edward VI in 1537.
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Henry VIII and Jane Seymore divorced and the King married Anne of Cleves. -
Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves divorced and the King married Catherine Howard. He then executed her in 1541. -
Henry VIII got married to his sixth wife, Catherine Parr. -
Henry VIII died in 1547. His son Edward VI became Lord Protector at only nine years old. He was Protestant and tried to make the Church of England more Protestant.
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Edward VI published the Book of Common Prayer which replaced every Latin mass book in every church. -
Edward VI died at the age of 15.
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Mary I became the first Queen regnant ever at 37 years old. Her aim was to restore Catholicism and make an alliance with the Habsburgs empire.
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She married Phillip II in 1554 which created an alliance with Spain. Over 200 Protestants went to stake during her reign. Protestants were forced to leave England, and became the Marian exiles. Mary I became Bloody Mary. She died of illness in 1558.
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Elizabeth I became Queen in 1558 at 25 years old. She was an unmarried woman that needed to prove wrong gender prejudice because she was the daughter of Ann Boleyn. She was Protestant. She found a compromise to satisfy the greatest number. With progressive acts, she installed a new form of faith and church structure.
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The Act of Supremacy reaffirmed the authority of the Queen over the Church. Elizabeth I became "Supreme Governor of the Church of England." The new Church of England became Anglicanism, with some Catholic features and Protestant ideas.
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Because of this Act, every parish had to use the Book of Common prayer.
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Because of the Civil War in Scotland, Mary Queen of Scots had to escape England. She was imprisoned for 19 years.
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6000 insurgents wanted to replace Elizabeth I with Mary Queen of Scots who was Catholic, the next heir in line, and daughter of King of Scotland and Mary de Guise.
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Pope Pius V supported Mary Queen of Scots and excommunicated Elizabeth I in 1570
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This Act forbade Catholic mass. About 150-200 persons were killed during the repression. -
A lot of plots had been made against Elizabeth I. In 1586, Anthony Babington and a group of Catholics tried to kill Elizabeth I, but it failed. -
Mary Queen of Scots was executed.
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England defeated the Spanish Armada.
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Her death marks the end of the Tudors and the beginning of the Stuart reign.
