Henry VII comes to throne
22nd August 1485
Henry VII coronation
30th October 1485
Henry VII first parliament
7th November 1485
First Navigation act (Henry VII)
1485
Henry Marries Elizabeth of York
1486
Lovell Rebellion
1486
Birth of Prince Arthur
1486
Imposture of Lambert Simnel
1487
Defeat of Earl of Lincoln at Battle of Stoke
1487
Export of unfinished cloth by foreign merchants banned
1487
French invasion of Brittany
1487
Anglo-French truce
1488
Treaty of Redon
1489
Medina del Campo
1489
Murder of Earl of Northumberland
1489
Yorkshire uprising
1489
Second Navigation Act
1489
Beginning of Perkin Warbeck
1491
Henry VIII born
1491
War against France (Henry VII)
1491
Treaty of Etaples
1492
Trading embargo with Netherlands (Henry VII)
1493
Poynings appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland
1494
Execution of Sir William Stanley
1495
Introduction of Council Learned in Law
1495
Privy Chamber est.
1495
Intercursus Magnus
1496
Small Scottish force crosses border under PW
1496
Cornish Rebellion
1497
Truce of Ayton
1497
Surrender of Perkin Warbeck
1497
Execution of Earl of Warwick and of Warbeck
1499
Marriage of Catherine of Aragon and Prince Arthur
1501
Death of Prince Arthur
1502
Death of Bray
1503
Princess Margaret and James IV marry
1503
Death of Queen Isabella of Castille
1504
Treaty of Windsor
1506
Intercusus Malus
1506
Death of Henry VII
1509
Accession of Henry VIII
1509
Empson and Dudley arrested
1509
Henry VIII’s coronation
24th of June 1509
Marriage of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon
11th June 1509
Abolition of the Council Learned in Law
1510
Empson and Dudley executed
1510
Thomas Wolsey appointed to council
1510
Renewal of Treaty of Etaples
1510
First war against France (Henry VIII)
1510
Re-Foundation of St Pauls School
1511
Battle of Flodden
1513
Capture of Tournai and Therounanne
1513
Wolsey emerges as Chief minister
1514
Wolsey appointed as Archbishop of York
1514
Marraige of Princess Mary and Louis XII of France
1514
Wolsey appointed Lord Chancellor
1515
Princess Mary marries Duke of Suffolk
1515
Wolsey appointed Cardinal
1515
Wolsey begins building Hampton Court
1515
Death of Louis XII – ascension of Francis I
1515
Birth of Princess Mary
1516
Publication of Thomas More’s Utopia
1516
Completion of Torrigiano’s funeral effigies of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York
1517
Treaty of Cambrai
1529
Treaty of London
1518
Charles V elected as Holy Roman Emperor
1519
Field of the cloth of Gold
1520
Execution of Duke of Buckingham
1521
Treaty of Bruges
1521
War against France (Henry VIII - again)
1523
Amicable Grant and resistance to it
1525
Eltham Ordinances issued
1526
League of Cognac
1526
Sack of Rome
1527
Legatine court enquiring into Kings marriage
1527
Fall of Wolsey
1529
Sir Thomas more appointed as Lord Chancellor
1529
Treaty of Cambrai
1529
Clergy accused of Praemunire
1531
Act in Conditional Restraint of Annates
1532
House of Commons supplication of the Ordinaries
1532
Formal Submission of the Clergy to Henry VIII - caused resignation of Sir Thomas More
1532
Thomas Cromwell emerges as chief minister
1532
Thomas Cranmer made Archbishop of Canterbury
1532
Act in Restraint of Appeals
April 1533
Act of Succession - Elizabeth Legitimate and Mary not
April 1534
Act of Supremacy
November 1534
The Treason Act
November 1534
Act Annexing First Fruits and Tenths to the crown
1534
Execution of Thomas More
1535
Completion of Valor Ecclesiasticus
1535
Execution of Anne Boleyn
1536
Death of Catherine of Aragon
1536
Marriage to Jane Seymour
1536
Princess Elizabeth declared illegitimate (Succession Act)
1536
Beginning of the Dissolution of the Monasteries
1536
First set of Royal injunctions
1536
Ten Articles Issued
1536
Pilgrimage of Grace
1536
Birth of Prince Edward
1537