Timeline (1485-1603)

Flowchart nodes

• 1485- Henry VII takes throne following victory at Battle of Bosworth- Henry's first parliament

• 1486- Henry  marries Elizabeth of York- Lovell Rebellion- Birth of Prince Arthur

• 1487- Imposture of Lambert Simnel- Defeat of Earl of Lincoln at Battle of Stoke- Export of unfinished cloth by foreign merchants banned

• 1489- Murder of Earl of Northumberland and Yorkshire Rising- Treaty of Redon-Treaty of Medina del Campo

• Blue: economic events

• Red: Political Events

• Green: Religious Events

• Orange: Social and cultural

• Purple: international events (including foreign policy)

• 1491- Beginning of imposture of Perkin Warbeck - Birth of Prince Henry (VIII)- War against France

• 1492- Treaty  of Etaples (Northern France & England)

• 1494- Poynings appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland

• 1495 - Execution of Sir William Stanley - Introduction of Council Learned in the Law under the leadership of Sir Reginald Bray - Creation of Privy Chamber  

• 1496- Intercursus Magnus treaty signed(Between England and the Netherlands by Henry VII of England and Philip IV of Burgundy)

• 1497- Cornish Rebellion- Surrender of Warbeck

• 1499- Execution of the Earl of Warwick and of Warbeck 

• 1501- Marriage of Prince Arthur and Catherine of Aragon

• 1502- Death of Prince Arthur

• 1503- Death of Sir Reginald Bray- Marriage of Princess Margaret to James IV of Scotland

• 1506- Treaty of Windsor- Intercursus Malus treaty agreed

• 1509- Death of Henry VII and accession of Henry VIII- Empson and Dudley arrested - Henry VIII's coronation- Marriage of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon-

• 1510- Abolition of Council Learned in the Law - Empson and Dudley executed- Thomas Wolsey appointed to Council

• 1512- War against France- Re-foundation of St Paul's School

• 1513- Battle of Flodden- Capture of Tournai and Thérouanne

• 1514 - Wolsey emerges as chief minister - Wolsey appointed archbishop of York - Princess Mary marries Louis XI of France      

•           1515 - Wolsey appointed Lord Chancellor - Princess Mary marries the Duke of Suffolk - Wolsey appointed cardinal - Wolsey begins building Hampton Court​​​​​​        

•   1516 - Birth of Princess Mary - Publication of Thomas More's Utopia       

• 1518- Treaty of London

• 1520- Field of the Cloth of Gold

•     1521 - Execution of Duke of Buckingham - Treaty of Bruges    

• 1523- War against France

• 1525- Opposition to imposition of Amicable Grant

• 1528- Legatine court enquiring into the validity of the king's marriage 

• 1529 - Fall of Wolsey - Sir Thomas More appointed Lord Chancellor - Treaty of Cambrai    

• 1532 - Resignation of More - Thomas Cromwell emerges as chief minister - Thomas Cranmer appointed Archbishop of Canterbury    

• 1533 - Henry marries Anne Boleyn  - Birth of Princess Elizabeth  - Princess Mary declared illegitimate  - Act in Restraint of Appeals      

• 1534- Act of Supremacy

• 1535- Execution of Thomas More

• 1536- Execution of Anne Boleyn- Marriage of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour - Princess Elizabeth declared illegitimate- Beginning of dissolution of the monasteries- First set of royal injunctions issued- Ten Articles issues-

• 1537- Birth of Prince Edward

• 1538- Second set of Royal injunctions issued

• 1539- Six Articles Act- First edition of the Great Bible published

• 1540- Marriage of Henry and Anne of Cleves; quickly dissolved- Execution of Cromwell- Marriage of Henry and Catherine Howard

•   1542 - Execution of Catherine Howard  - Battle of Solway Moss    

• 1543- Treaty of Greenwich

•         1544 - Mary and Elizabeth reinstated to succession - Invasion of France - Capture of Boulogne - Currency debasement begins​​​​​​      

• 1545- Battle of Ancrum Moor

• 1547 - Death of Henry VIII - Third set of royal injunctions issued - Invasion of Scotland    

•   1549 - Execution of Thomas Seymour - Fall of Somerset -Earl of Warwick takes over leadership of government - Act of Uniformity and issue of first Book of Common Prayer - Western Rebellion - Kett's Rebellion        

•   1550  - Warwick becomes Lord President of the Council and Duke of Northumberland