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Date |
Event(s) |
| 1 | 1499 | - 16 Nov 1499—16 Nov 1499:
Perkin Warbeck, pretender to the throne, executed
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| 2 | 1503 | - 1503—1503:
Leonardo da Vinci paints Mona Lisa (-1505)
- 28 May 1503—28 May 1503:
Marriage of King James IV of Scots and Margaret Tudor
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| 3 | 1505 | - 1505—1505:
Royal College of Surgeons founded in Edinburgh
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| 4 | 1506 | - 22 Jan 1506—22 Jan 1506:
First contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrives at the Vatican
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| 5 | 1507 | - 1507—1507:
First printing press in Scotland set up in Edinburgh by Andrew Myllar
- Apr 1507—Apr 1507:
Suggestion put forward that the New World be named America in honour of
Amerigo Vespucci (on Martin Waldseem?ller's world map)
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| 6 | 1509 | - 1509—1509:
Naturalisation papers start in England
- 22 Apr 1509—22 Apr 1509:
Henry VIII becomes king of England (to 1547) at 17 years old
- 11 Jun 1509—11 Jun 1509:
Henry VIII marries Catherine of Aragon
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| 7 | 1512 | - 1512—1512:
The Auld Alliance' treaty with France - all Scottish citizens became French and vice
versa
- 1512—1512:
Admiralty founded in London
- Nov 1512—Nov 1512:
Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, exhibited to the public for
the first time
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| 8 | 1513 | - 16 Aug 1513—16 Aug 1513:
Battle of the Spurs - English troops under Henry VIII defeat a French force at
Guinegate
- 9 Sep 1513—9 Sep 1513:
Battle of Flodden, defeat of Scottish Army - death of King James IV of Scots
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| 9 | 1514 | - 1514—1514:
Recording of Testaments (wills) begins in Scotland
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| 10 | 1515 | - 15 Nov 1515—15 Nov 1515:
Thomas Wolsley invested as Cardinal
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| 11 | 1516 | - 1516—1516:
Thomas More writes Utopia'
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| 12 | 1517 | - 31 Oct 1517—31 Oct 1517:
Martin Luther fixes his 95 theses on church door at Wittenburg - regarded as
start of the Reformation
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| 13 | 1518 | - 1518—1518:
Treaty of London, a non-aggression pact between the major European nations: France,
England, Holy Roman Empire, the Papacy, Spain, Burgundy and the Netherlands - sponsored
by Cardinal Wolsey
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| 14 | 1520 | - Nov 1520—Nov 1520:
Three ships under the command of Ferdinand Magellan negotiate the Strait of
Magellan, becoming the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific
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| 15 | 1521 | - 17 Apr 1521—17 Apr 1521:
Martin Luther speaks to the assembly at the Diet of Worms, refusing to recant
his teachings
- 17 May 1521—17 May 1521:
Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, executed for treason
- 25 May 1521—25 May 1521:
Diet of Worms ends when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor issues the Edict of
Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw
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| 16 | 1522 | - 6 Sep 1522—6 Sep 1522:
The Victoria, one of the surviving ships of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition,
becomes the first ship known to circumnavigate the world
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| 17 | 1525 | - 1525—1525:
New Testament translated into English by William Tyndale
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| 18 | 1527 | - 1527—1527:
Bishop Vesey's Grammar School founded in Sutton Coldfield
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| 19 | 1528 | - 1528—1528:
St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle completed
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| 20 | 1531 | - 11 Feb 1531—11 Feb 1531:
Henry VIII recognised as Supreme Head of the Church of England
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| 21 | 1532 | - 1532—1532:
Foundation of the Court of Session in Scotland
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| 22 | 1533 | - 25 Jan 1533—25 Jan 1533:
Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn secretly, wife #2 (she was crowned as Queen
on 1st June)
- 30 Mar 1533—30 Mar 1533:
Thomas Cranmer becomes Archbishop of Canterbury
- 23 May 1533—23 May 1533:
Henry VIII's marriage with Catherine of Aragon officially declared annulled
- 11 Jul 1533—11 Jul 1533:
Henry VIII excommunicated by Pope Clement VII
- 17 Sep 1533—17 Sep 1533:
Anne Boleyn gives birth to a daughter Elizabeth, to become Queen Elizabeth I
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| 23 | 1534 | - 1534—1534:
Reformation of the Catholic Church in England church (Henry VIII)
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| 24 | 1535 | - 1535—1535:
Sir Thomas More executed
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| 25 | 1536 | - 1536—1536:
Wales and England legally united by the Laws in Wales Act of 1535
- 1536—1536:
Dissolution of monasteries starts in England (to 1540)
- 19 May 1536—19 May 1536:
Anne Boleyn executed
- 30 May 1536—30 May 1536:
Henry VIII marries Jane Seymour, wife #3 (she was crowned as Queen on 29th
October)
- 18 Jul 1536—18 Jul 1536:
The authority of the Pope is declared void in England
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| 26 | 1537 | - 24 Oct 1537—24 Oct 1537:
Jane Seymour dies from complications in giving birth to a son, the future
Edward VI
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| 27 | 1538 | - 1538—1538:
Henry VIII issues English Bible
- 1538—1538:
English and Welsh parish registers start
- 17 Dec 1538—17 Dec 1538:
Henry VIII excommunicated by Pope Paul III
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| 28 | 1540 | - 1540—1540:
Statute of Wills allows freehold land to be bequeathed
- 6 Jan 1540—6 Jan 1540:
Henry VIII marries Anne of Cleves, the 'Flanders Mare', wife #4
- 9 Feb 1540—9 Feb 1540:
First recorded horse racing event in Britain, at Chester
- 9 Jul 1540—9 Jul 1540:
Henry VIII divorces Anne of Cleves
- 28 Jul 1540—28 Jul 1540:
Thomas Cromwell executed; Henry VIII marries Catherine Howard the same day,
wife #5
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| 29 | 1541 | - 1541—1541:
Henry VIII proclaimed king (rather than feudal lord) of Ireland
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| 30 | 1542 | - 13 Feb 1542—13 Feb 1542:
Catherine Howard executed
- 14 Dec 1542—14 Dec 1542:
Death of King James V of Scots; his baby daughter Mary ?Queen of Scots'
succeeds him just 6 days old
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| 31 | 1543 | - 12 Jul 1543—12 Jul 1543:
Henry VIII marries Catherine Parr, wife #6, who survives him
- 9 Sep 1543—9 Sep 1543:
Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is officially crowned Queen of Scots' in
Stirling (spelling of the royal house changes from Stewart to Stuart)
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| 32 | 1544 | - 1544—1544:
Henry's VIII's Rough Wooing' of the Scottish Borders
- 1544—1544:
Mary of Guise, Regent of Scotland
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| 33 | 1545 | - 20 Jul 1545—20 Jul 1545:
Mary Rose, flagship of Henry VIII, sinks in the Solent - raised in 1982
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| 34 | 1546 | - 1546—1546:
Trinity College, Cambridge founded by Henry VIII
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| 35 | 1547 | - 1547—1547:
Ivan the Terrible takes title 'Tsar of all the Russias'
- 1547—1547:
Vagrants Act passed (able-bodied tramps can be detained as slaves)
- 1547—1547:
English replaced Latin in church services in England and Wales
- 28 Jan 1547—28 Jan 1547:
Death of Henry VIII (succeeded by Edward VI, aged 9, to 1553)
- 20 Feb 1547—20 Feb 1547:
Coronation of Edward VI in Westminster Abbey
- 10 Sep 1547—10 Sep 1547:
Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, said to be the first 'modern' battle to be fought in the
British Isles
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| 36 | 1548 | - 1548—1548:
Priests in England allowed to marry (about a third then did so) - but see 1554
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| 37 | 1549 | - 1549—1549:
English Parliament declares enclosures legal
- 1549—1549:
First Act of Uniformity in England made Catholic Mass illegal
- 1549—1549:
Wedding ring finger changed from right to left hand
- 9 Jun 1549—9 Jun 1549:
First Book of Common Prayer sanctioned by English Parliament
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| 38 | 1550 | - 1550—1550:
Walloon Protestants arrive as refugees from the Low Countries
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| 39 | 1551 | - 1551—1551:
Scotland: General Provincial Council orders each parish to keep a register of baptisms
and banns of marriage
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| 40 | 1552 | - Mar 1552—Mar 1552:
An 'Act of Uniformity' imposes the Protestant prayerbook of 1552 in England
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| 41 | 1553 | - 6 Jul 1553—6 Jul 1553:
Edward VI dies; Lady Jane Grey queen for a few days only
- 19 Jul 1553—19 Jul 1553:
Mary Tudor ('Bloody Mary') comes to the throne
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| 42 | 1554 | - 1554—1554:
Brief Catholic restoration under Queen Mary Tudor - married priests forced to separate
at least 30 miles from their wives
- 12 Feb 1554—12 Feb 1554:
Lady Jane Grey beheaded
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| 43 | 1556 | - 21 Mar 1556—21 Mar 1556:
Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer burned at the stake in Oxford
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| 44 | 1558 | - 1558—1558:
System of Counties adopted
- 1558—1558:
Scottish parish registers start
- 7 Jan 1558—7 Jan 1558:
French take Calais, last English possession in France
- 24 Apr 1558—24 Apr 1558:
Marriage of Mary, Queen of Scots to Fran?ois the Dauphin of France in Paris
- 17 Nov 1558—17 Nov 1558:
Queen Mary Tudor of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister
Elizabeth - Protestantism restored in England
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| 45 | 1559 | - 1559—1559:
Tobacco introduced to Europe
- 1559—1559:
John Knox returns from Continent - strengthens case for Presbyterianism in Scotland
- 15 Jan 1559—15 Jan 1559:
Elizabeth crowned in Westminster Abbey by Owen Oglethorpe, the Bishop of
Carlisle
- 29 Apr 1559—29 Apr 1559:
Acts of Supremacy passed in Parliament, ending papal jurisdiction over England
& Wales; established Church of England
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| 46 | 1560 | - 1560—1560:
Establishment of Protestantism in Scotland - commissary courts thrown into confusion
- some records lost
- 27 Feb 1560—27 Feb 1560:
Treaty of Berwick between Duc du Chatelherault (as governor of Scotland) and
the English, agreeing to act jointly to expel the French from Scotland
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| 47 | 1561 | - 1561—1561:
Spire of St Paul's, highest in England, destroyed by fire
- 1561—1561:
The first coins produced by machinery (known as a 'mill') rather than by hand, but it
was a slow process and did not replace hand struck coinage until new machinery was
introduced in 1663
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| 48 | 1562 | - 1562—1562:
Earliest English slave-trading expedition, under John Hawkins - between Guinea and
the West Indies
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| 49 | 1563 | - 28 Jul 1563—28 Jul 1563:
The English surrender Le Havre to the French after a siege
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| 50 | 1564 | - 26 Apr 1564—26 Apr 1564:
Shakespeare baptised - he is said to have been born on Apr 23, St George's
Day; he certainly died on Apr 23, 1616
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| 51 | 1565 | - 29 Jul 1565—29 Jul 1565:
Marriage of Mary, Queen of Scots to Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, her first
cousin
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| 52 | 1566 | - 9 Mar 1566—9 Mar 1566:
Murder of David Riccio (or Rizzio) in Holyrood House
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| 53 | 1567 | - 10 Feb 1567—10 Feb 1567:
Murder of Darnley outside Holyrood House in an explosion
- 15 May 1567—15 May 1567:
Marriage of Mary Queen of Scots to James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell
- 24 Jul 1567—24 Jul 1567:
Mary Queen of Scots deposed and replaced by her 1 year old son James VI
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| 54 | 1568 | - 13 May 1568—13 May 1568:
Battle of Langside - Mary's flight to England and her imprisonment by Queen
Elizabeth I
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| 55 | 1569 | - 1569—1569:
Elizabeth I approved Sunday sports
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| 56 | 1570 | - 25 Feb 1570—25 Feb 1570:
Pope Pius V issued the papal bull 'Regnans in Excelsis' to excommunicate
Elizabeth I and her followers in the Church of England
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| 57 | 1571 | - 1571—1571:
Presbyterianism introduced into England by Thomas Cartwright
- 1571—1571:
Repeal of Act prohibiting lending of money on interest - gradual change from
'subsistence economy' to 'cash economy' resulted
- 1571—1571:
Beginning of penal legislation against Catholics in England
- 23 Jan 1571—23 Jan 1571:
Opening of the Royal Exchange in London, founded by Sir Thomas Gresham -
this building destroyed in Great Fire of London 1666
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