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The Timeline | 11th C | 12th C | 13th C | 14th C | 15th C | 16th C | 17th C | 18th C | 19th C | 20th C
| YEAR |
MONARCH |
POLITICAL EVENTS AND CONFLICTS |
SOCIAL HISTORY AND EPIDEMICS |
INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES |
NOTABLE EVENTS |
| 1502 | Death of Prince Arthur, heir to the throne | ||||
| 1503 | Death of Elizabeth of York, Henry's wife | ||||
| 1509 | Henry VIII 22nd April |
Marriage of Henry and Catherine of Aragon | |||
| 1513 | Battle of Flodden Field | ||||
| 1515 | Birth of Mary I | ||||
| 1529 | Cardinal Wolsey accused of high treason | ||||
| 1532 | Sir Thomas More gives up the Chancellorship | ||||
| 1533 | Henry marries Ann Boleyn and is excommunicated by the Pope | Birth of Elizabeth I | |||
| 1534 | Act of Supremacy passed | ||||
| 1536 | Execution of Anne Boleyn | Act of Union between Wales and England | |||
| 1537 | Jane Seymour dies | ||||
| 1538 | Parish Registers started | ||||
| 1543 | Robert Record writes "The Ground of Arts", the first ever English mathematics textbook | Six Books of Copernicus: The Revolutions (laws) of the Heavenly Orbs published in the year of his death | |||
| 1546 | First civil divorce in England | ||||
| 1547 | Edward VI 28th January |
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| 1549 | First Act of Uniformity passed, making Roman Catholic mass illegal | The First Book of Common Prayer issued | |||
| 1553 | Jane 6th July Mary I 19th July |
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| 1554 | Marriage of Mary to Philip of Spain 25 July | Execution of Lady Jane Grey | |||
| 1557 | The Stationers Company controls English book publication | ||||
| 1558 | Elizabeth I 17th November |
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| 1559 | Second Act of Supremacy | ||||
| 1562 | Sumptuary law restricts hose, ruffs and swords | ||||
| 1563 to 1564 | Bubonic plague in London | ||||
| 1564 | William Shakespeare baptised 26th April in Statford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire | Galileo born | |||
| 1568 | Mary Queen of Scots flees to England and is imprisoned by Elizabeth | ||||
| 1577 | Francis Drake circumnavigates the world to 1580 | ||||
| 1585 | Roanoke (North America), the first English colony, was founded by Sir Walter Raleigh | ||||
| 1586 | Mary Queen of Scots sent for trial | Famine in England gave rise to the Poor Law system | |||
| 1587 | Execution of Mary Queen of Scots | ||||
| 1588 | Spanish Armada | ||||
| 1589 | William Byrd Elizabethan Composer creates "Cantione Sacrae" | Stocking Frame invented by William Lee | |||
| 1590 | First part of Edmund Spenser's "The Fairie Queen" published | ||||
| 1597 | Tagliacozzi publishes his plastic surgery techiques | ||||
| 1598 | Bishops' Transcripts introduced | ||||
| 1599 | Richard Burbage, William Shakespeare and others build the Globe Theatre in London |
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