Timeline |
16 Dec 1485 CE | Katherine of Argon, first wife of Henry VIII, was born. | |
28 Jun 1491 CE | Henry VIII, King of England and founder of the Church of England, was born at Greenwich. | |
22 Apr 1509 CE | Henry Tudor was crowned King Henry VIII of England following the death of his father, Henry VII. | |
11 Jun 1509 CE | England's King Henry VIII married Catherine of Aragon. | |
24 Jun 1509 CE | Henry VIII was crowned king of England. | |
1509 CE | English King Henry VIII, succeeds his father, Henry VII and ascended to throne of England. | |
1509 CE | Sebastian Cabot arrived back in England only to find that King Henry VII had died and Henry VIII was King. The new King was not as supportive of Cabot's exploration as his predecessor. | |
1512 CE | Henry VIII claimed the throne of France and sent troops unsuccessfully into Spain. | |
16 Aug 1513 CE | Henry VIII of England and Emperor Maximilian defeated the French at Guinegatte, France, in the Battle of the Spurs. | |
1513 CE | Henry VIII and Maximilian defeated the French forces in Italy and Louis XII gave up Milan. | |
1514 CE | England and France declared a truce in their warfare. Mary Tudor, sister of Henry VIII, married Louis XII. | |
1518 CE | Henry VIII authorized a college of physicians and it was founded by Oxford physician Thomas Linacre. | |
1520 CE | English King Henry VIII orders bowling lanes at Whitehall. | |
1520 CE | Emperor Charles V and Henry VIII met at Dover and agreed to an Anglo-French commercial treaty. | |
1521 CE | Pope Leo X conferred the title of 'Defender of the Faith' on Henry VIII of England. | |
1522 CE | England declared war on France and Scotland. Holy Roman Emperor Charles V visited Henry VIII and signed the Treaty of Windsor. Both monarchs agreed to invade France. | |
1525 CE | Cardinal Wolsey presented Hampton Court Palace to Henry VIII. | |
30 Apr 1527 CE | Henry VIII and King Francis of France signed the treaty of Westminster. | |
1527 CE | Henry VIII appealed to the Pope for permission to divorce Catherine of Aragon. | |
1527 CE | (1527-1528) Henry VIII imprisoned Pope Clement VII for disobedience. It was to Clement that Henry appealed for an annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, which had been granted under special dispensation in the first place. | |
17 Oct 1529 CE | Henry VIII of England stripped Thomas Wolsey of his office for failing to secure an annulment of his marriage. | |
21 Oct 1529 CE | Henry VIII of England was named Defender of the Faith by the Pope after defending the seven sacraments against Luther. | |
1530 CE | English King Henry VIII's divorce request is denied by the Pope Henry then declares that he, not the Pope, is supreme head of England's church. | |
11 Feb 1531 CE | Henry VIII was recognized as the supreme head of the Church of England. | |
1531 CE | Pope Clemens VII forbids English king Henry VIII to re-marry. | |
Jan 1533 CE | English King Henry VIII secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn when she was already pregnant with the future Queen, Elizabeth I. She was 26 when married Henry VIII who was 42 and they had 3 children, Queen Elizabeth I, Henry Tudor, Duke of Cornwall and an unnamed baby. | |
23 May 1533 CE | The marriage of England's King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon was declared null and void. | |
28 May 1533 CE | Britain's Archbishop declared the marriage of King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn valid. | |
1 Jun 1533 CE | Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's new queen, was crowned. | |
11 Jul 1533 CE | Pope Clement VII excommunicated England's King Henry VIII. | |
1534 CE | Henry VIII was declared Supreme Head of the Church in England. He suppressed the monasteries and renounced papal jurisdiction. He issued the Act of Supremacy which signified a break with the Catholic Church of Rome. | |
6 Jul 1535 CE | Thomas More's sentence to death by hanging was commuted to beheading. Thomas More was beheaded in England for treason, for refusing to renounce the Catholic church in favor of King Henry VIII's Church of England. | |
31 Aug 1535 CE | Pope Paul III deposed & excommunicated King Henry VIII. | |
19 May 1536 CE | Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England's King Henry VIII, was beheaded on Tower Green after she was convicted of adultery and incest with her brother, Lord Rochford, who was executed two days before. It was the day before Henry VIII's marriage to Jane Seymour. | |
20 May 1536 CE | English King Henry VIII marries Jane Seymour. | |
1536 CE | English King Henry VIII accused Anne Boleyn and her brother Lord Rochford were accused of adultery and incest. | |
1536 CE | English King Henry VIII orders the bible be placed in every church. | |
1536 CE | In England Hyde Park was seized from the monks at Westminster Abbey by Henry VIII and preserved as forest for the royal hunt. | |
1536 CE | Hans Holbein the Younger was made court painter to Henry VIII of England. He painted a famous portrait of Henry VIII. | |
12 Oct 1537 CE | Edward IV, the only son of Henry VIII by his third wife Jane Seymour, was born. | |
24 Oct 1537 CE | Jane Seymour, the third wife of England's King Henry VIII, died 12 days after giving birth to Prince Edward, later King Edward VI. | |
1537 CE | Hans Holbein's masterpiece was his life-size Tudor dynastic portrait in Whitehall Palace that included Henry VIII and his father Henry VII. | |
1538 CE | Pope Paul III excommunicated England's King Henry VIII. | |
1539 CE | The Six Articles, a religious stature, was passed at the 'instance' of Henry VIII. It set forth the position of the English Church on six fundamental points in an effort to stem the growth and influence of the English Protestants. | |
19 Jul 1540 CE | England's King Henry VIII had his 6-month-old marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, annulled. | |
28 Jul 1540 CE | The chief minister of King Henry VIII, Thomas Cromwell, having been discredited by his enemies, was beheaded on Tower Hill in England. | |
28 Jul 1540 CE | King Henry VIII married his fifth wife, Catherine Howard. | |
1540 CE | English King Henry VIII married his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves. | |
1541 CE | Ireland came under the rule of England's Henry VIII. | |
12 Jul 1543 CE | England's King Henry VIII married his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr, who outlived him. | |
1543 CE | Henry VIII of England and Emperor Charles V formed an alliance against France. | |
14 Sep 1544 CE | Henry VIII's forces took Boulogne, France. | |
19 Sep 1544 CE | Francis, the king of France, and Charles V of Austria signed a peace treaty in Crespy, France, ending a 20-year war. The Peace of Crespy ended the fighting between Charles V and Francis I. Henry VIII was not consulted. France surrendered much territory and Charles gave up his claim to Burgundy. | |
1544 CE | Scottish Earl Matthew van Lennox signs a secret treaty with Henry VIII. | |
1544 CE | Henry VIII crossed the Channel to Calais to campaign with Charles V against Francis I. | |
19 Jul 1545 CE | A French fleet entered The Solent in England, and French troops landed on the Isle of Wight. The Mary Rose, pride of England's fleet, capsized with heavy loss in Portsmouth harbor. King Henry VIII of England watched his flagship, Mary Rose, capsize as it left to battle the French. | |
28 Jan 1547 CE | England's King Henry VIII died; his sixth and last wife was Catherine Parr. He was succeeded by his 9-year-old son, Edward VI. | |
Jan 1547 CE | An inventory of the possessions of King Henry VIII was begun under Edward VI, Henry's son and successor. It took three years to complete. His total wealth amounted to some 600,000 pounds. A commoner's daily wage at this time was about two and one-half pence. | |
1547 CE | 9-year-old Edward VI succeeds Henry VIII as King of England. | |
1549 CE | Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, issued the 'Book of Common Prayer'. Other prayer books were forbidden by the Act of Uniformity. The book was mandated by the government under Edward VI, son of Henry VIII, so that services could be spoken in the language of the people. | |