Battle of Bosworth-Henry Tudor defeats Richard III at Bosworth and becomes King
1486
Abortive Rising by Lovell and the Staffords
1486
Lambert Simnel Claims to be the Earl of Warwick
1487
Battle of Stoke - Lambert Simnel defeated by Henry VII after his troops land in Furness
1487
Henry parades the real Earl of Warwick through the streets
1487
De la Pole escapes Burgundy, Henry begins to raise troops in the localities
1487
De la Pole and Lovell land in Ireland. Simnel crowned King in Ireland
1489
Tax revolt in Yorkshire
1489
Treaty of Medina del Campo
1491
Emergence of Perkin Warbeck
1491
Perkin Warbeck claims to be the Duke of York in Cork
1492
Treaty of Etaples
1492
Warbeck in France
1492
Warbeck in Burgundy and the Holy Roman Empire
1494
Italian wars begin
1495
Vagabonds and Beggars Act
1495
JPs given powers to arrest suspects and replace jurors
1495
Warbeck lands in Deal
1495
Execution of William Stanley
1496
Intercursus Magnus
1496
Warbeck and James IV try to invade England
1497
Cornish Rising
1497
Treaty of Ayton
1497
Warbeck forced out of Scotland then Ireland. Attempted Invasion in Cornwall and Warbeck is captured.
1499
Perkin Warbeck and the Earl of Warwick are executed
1509
Accession of Henry VII
1513
Tudor Subsidy introduced
1523
Parliamentary opposition to high levels of Taxation
1527
Henry begins annulment proceeding
1532
Act in Conditional Restraint of Annates
1533
Henry marries Anne in secret
1533
Act in Restraint of Appeals
1533
Henry's marriage to Catherine of Aragon is annulled
1534
Act of Supremacy
1534
Treason act
1534
Collection of Subsidy
1535
Valor Ecclesiasticus
1535
Act of Uses
1536
Act of Ten Articles and Act for the Dissolution of the Smaller Monasteries.
1536
Lincolnshire Rising and Pilgrimage of Grace
1536
Pilgrimage of Grace
1537
Bigod's uprising
1537
Council of the North Re-organised
1540
Privy Council Re-organised
1541
Irish chieftains acknowledge Henry VIII as king in Ireland
1547
Vagrancy Act
1547
Edward Seymour becomes Lord Protector
1547
Accession of Edward VI
1548
Failure of anti-enclosure bills. Enclosure commissions issued by Somerset, they are unsuccessful.
1549
JPs ordered to take inventories of parish goods and prosecute anyone found to have stolen them
1549
Enclosure riots in Midlands and South East. Outbreak of the Western Rising
1549
Commissions reissued. Enclosure riots in Wiltshire, Somerset, Bristol and Norfolk. Nobility and Gentry from South summoned to Windsor. Protests in Essex.
1549
Kett's rebellion
1552
Poor Act
1552
Alehouses had to be licensed by JPs
1552
JPs ordered to enforce the Second Book of Prayer
1553
Accession of Mary Tudor
1554
Repeal of the Act of Supremacy
1555
Parliamentary opposition to the Exiles Bill
1556
Earl of Sussex begins policy of plantation in Ireland
1558
Accession of Elizabeth I
1559
Elizabeth's Religious settlement
1559
Supremacy Bill
1559
Uniformity Bill
1562
Convocation passes the Thirty-Nine Articles
1563
Statute of Artificers - First attempt to regulate wages and employment
1568
Plot to marry Mary Qos to Norfolk
1568
Mary, Queen of Scots arrives in England
1569
Introduction of English-style councils in Connaught and Munster
1569
Sussex begins to raise royal forces
1569
Duke of Norfolk takes up residence at Kenninghall
1569
Norfolk surrenders to the Queen
1569
Westmorland's supporters rally at Brancepeth Castle
1569
Earl of Sussex questions Northumberland and Westmorland
1569
Elizabeth demands that the Earls appear at court
1569
Northumberland joins the Rebellion
1569
Rebels march to Durham and then begin to march South
1569
Rebels reach Bramham Moor
1569
Rebels turn back to the North
1569
Rebels besiege Barnard Castle
1569
Rebels overrun Barnard Castle
1569
Rebels disband army and flee
1569
Revolt of the Northern Earls.
1570
"Regnans in Excelsis" excommunicates Elizabeth I
1570
Leonard Dacre starts to muster forces at Naworth
1570
Dacre's forces attack lord Hunsdon. Dacre is defeated and captured
1572
Poor Law Act
1572
St. Bartholemew's Day Massacre
1572
Execution of Duke of Norfolk
1574
Arrival of first seminary priests
1574
Failure of English plantations in Ulster
1576
Poor Law Act
1577
Execution of first seminary priests
1579
Rebellion and plantation of Munster
1580
Arrival of first Jesuit priests
1581
Act to Retain the Queen's Subjects in Due Obedience
Bond of association published, assassination of William of Orange
Act for the Queen's Safety. Act against Jesuits and Seminary Priests
Lord Lieutenant system made permanent and England goes to war with Spain
Discovery of the Babington Plot
Execution of Mary QoS
First Spanish Armada launched
Act against Seditious Sectaries
Outbreak of Tyrone's Revolt in Ulster
Outbreak of rebellion in Ulster
Tyrone's brother burns Blackwater Fort. Bagenal's forces beaten at Clontibret. Tyrone asks Spain for support.
English expedition to Cadiz and second Spanish Armada
Tyrone is pardoned
Monopolies debate in parliaments
Lord Burgh establishes garrison at Blackwater. Failure of a second Spanish Armada
Bagenal's forces defeat Tyrone at Yellow Ford. Munster Plantation overthrown.
Act for the Relief of the Poor
Earl of Essex campaigns in Ireland. Clifford defeated at Curlew Pass. Truce between Tyrone and Essex
Mountjoy sent to Ireland
Maguire killed. Lord Deputy Mountjoy campaigns against Tyrone
Monopolies debate in parliaments
Spanish force lands at Kinsale and Tyrone is defeated
Spanish army surrenders. Mountjoy campaigns in Ulster