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