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 |