Henry VIII - Key Dates
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1515
Acts of Resumption - saved £10,000 a year in returned land
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1525
Amicable Grant
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1519
Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber were dismissed
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1526
Eltham Ordinances - meant Wolsey reduced the Gentlemen of the Bed Chamber from 12 to 6, over 2000 royal servants were removed
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1512
Henry launched an attack on Guienne with the expectation that he would be supported by his ally, Ferdinand of Spain
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1513
The Battle of the Spurs
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1518
The Treaty of London
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1520
the Field of Cloth of Gold
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1521
Defender of the Faith
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1525
Battle of Pavia
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1513
Battle of Floodden
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1525
Treaty of More: Henry gave up his claims to France and in return he would receive an annual pension of £20,000 from France
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1527
Treaty of Westminster: England would enter into a full alliance with France, and either Francis or his son would marry Mary Tudor
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1527
The Sack of Rome
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1527
Treaty of Amiens: England and France would declare war on Charles in 1528 and England agreed to pay for the french attack, suspended trade with Netherlands
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1529
Treaty of Cambrai
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1522
Whilst Henry was occupied with the Second French War, Albany sent troops across the border to siege Wark Castle (Scotland)
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1512
Henry placed himself at the centre of European Affairs by joining the Holy League
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1528
William Tyndale published the Obedience of the Christian Man, in which he argued that Kings had authority from god which gave them the responsibility for the souls as well as the bodies of their subjects
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1529
Parliament was encouraged to voice anti-clerical feelings. - Thomas Cromwell MP began collecting evidence of abuses
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1530
Revival of medieval law of Praemunire - fifteen of the upper clergy were charged with supporting Wolsey’s abuse of power against the King
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1530
Scholars from Oxford and Cambridge were sent to European Universities to find support for Henry’s divorce
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1531
Henry pardoned the clergy of crimes agasint him, but demanded that they should recognise him as ‘sole protector and supreme head’ of the church. A compromise was reached: he was accepted as supreme hard ‘as far as the law of christ allows’
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March 1932
: Thomas Cromwell introduced the ‘Supplication of against the Ordinaries’ into the House of Commons - a petition calling on the King to deal with the abuses and corruption of the clergy.
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May 1932
Henry demanded that the Church should agree to ‘submission of the clergy’ a document giving him the power to veto Church Laws and to choose bishops, even if not approved by Rome
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1932
Resignation of Sir Thomas More accepted
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January 1932
Act of Parliament passed preventing the payment of annates to Rome. Although the amount collected was not great, the banning of the payment was a significant attack on the Pope’s rights over the clergy. The Act was suspended for one year.
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August 1932
Death of Archbishop of Canterbury (William Warham) Henry asked the Pope to appoint Thomas Cranmer, a reformer with some Protestant views
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1533
Henry secretly married Anne Boleyn (now pregnant)
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1533
Act in Restraint of Appeals was passed by Parliament, denying Henry’s subjects the right to appeal to the Pope against decisions in English Church courts. This law effectively prevented Catherine of Aragon from seeking the Pope’s arbitration
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1532
Cromwell became Master of the King’s Jewels, a position which gave him access to the King’s private rooms in the palace.
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1533
Cromwell became Chancellor of the Exchequer and Master of the Rolls (which gave him a leading role within the legal system)
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1535
Cromwell appointed Vicar General (a government post which Henry created to give Cromwell the power to institute Church reform)
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1536
Cromwell became Lord Privy Seal and Principal Secretary on the Royal Council; also rewarded with the little Baron Cromwell
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1540
Cromwell became Lord Great Chamberlain and Earl of Essex shortly before his fall
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1533
Act in Restraint of Appeals
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1534
Royal Supremacy by Act of Parliament
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1514
Anglo French Treaty
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1515
Louis XII dies, France Becomes King of France
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1515
New Renaissance Prince, Duke of Albany, Battle of Marignano
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1516
Wolsey betrayed by Maximilian (cheaper than War)
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1516
Princess Mary born
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1516
Ferdinand dies, replaced by Charles I, who makes peace with France at Noyon
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1517
Peace of Cambrai between…France and Spain and the holy roman Empire, England isolated
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1519
Charles V becomes Holy Roman Emperor
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France (Population/Annual Income)
Population 15 million Annual Income £350,000
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England (Population/Annual Income)
England; Population £2.75 million Annual Income £100,000
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Hapsburg Empire (Population/Annual Income)
Population 23 million Annual Income £560,000
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series of events between approximately 1529 and 1536
English Reformation
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1534
The Act of First Fruits and Tenths
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1532
The Supplication against the Ordinaries - raised by Mp’s or Henry used this to demand the Church no longer had the right to make new canon law would be examined
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1534
The Act of First Fruits and Tenths
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1534
Pope ruled that marriage to Catherine was valid
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1536
The Ten Articles omitted 4 of 7 Catholic sacraments
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1536
First set of Injunctions
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September 1537
The Bishop’s Book - In some ways a retreat from the Ten Articles … as a whole ‘a continuing slide towards protestantism’
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1538
second set of Injunctions = much more specific and reformists
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1539
The Act of Six Articles
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1537-40
The Dissolutions of the Lesser Monasteries
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1536
Act of the dissolution of the smaller monasteries
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1539
So Cromwell ensured parliament passed a second dissolution act - Act of the Dissolutions of the larger monasteries
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1535
Two of Cromwell’s commissioners who carried out the Visitations
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1537
The Bishops Book
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1539
The Great Bible April
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1528
Campeggio suggested that Catherine enter a monastery
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1538
Pope excommunicated Henry
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1540
Norfolk orchestrated Cromwell’s downfall
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1532
The Holy Maid of Kent (Elizabeth Barton) confronted Henry in Canterbury threatening him
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1533
Cranmer investigated Barton and during interrogation she confessed she had invented the visions
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1534
A Bill of Attainder was passed condemning Barton to death (before the Treason act)
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1536
The Lincolnshire Rebellion: Trigger cause = the arrival of three government commissions working in the country to: dissolve the smaller monasteries collect the subsidy granted by parliament in 1534 inspect the quality of the clergy
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1536
The Pilgrimages of Grace: Yorkshire, 30,000 rebels, led by Robert Aske (lawyer, gentry)
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1540
Henry’s marriage to Anne of Cleves
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1541
Henry declared himself King of Ireland
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1542
Battle of Solway Moss against Scottish
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1544
Invasion of France and capture of Boulogne
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1544-45
Rough Wooing of Scots
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1546
Treaty of Ardres with France
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1544
Succession Act
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1540
Execution of Thomas Cromwell: Henry’s marriage to Catherine Howard
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1542
Execution of Catherine Howard
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1543
Marriage to Catherine Parr: plot by conservative faction to arrest Cranmer
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1545
Sir William Paget became important member of the Privy Council
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1546
Sir Anthony Denny became Chief Gentleman of the Privy Chamber; arrest of Norfolk and Surrey
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1547
Execution of Surrey, death of Henry VIII; regency for Edward VI dominated by reformers under Hertford(Duke of Somerset)
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
Amicable Grant
Back
1525
Card 3
Front
Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber were dismissed
Back
Card 4
Front
Eltham Ordinances - meant Wolsey reduced the Gentlemen of the Bed Chamber from 12 to 6, over 2000 royal servants were removed
Back
Card 5
Front
Henry launched an attack on Guienne with the expectation that he would be supported by his ally, Ferdinand of Spain
Back
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