Timeline of the Protestant Reformation in England
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This is a Timeline of the Protestant Reformation in England. The list is not complete and you are welcome to expand it. For more information, try:
| Date | Event | Significance to the Protestant Reformation in England |
|---|---|---|
| 1415, July 6 | Jan Hus executed as a heretic | |
| 1496 | Catherine of Aragon's hand secured for Arthur, Prince of Wales, son of Henry VII | |
| 1501, October | Arthur marries Catherine | |
| 1502, April | Arthur dies of TB | |
| 1503 | Henry VII’s wife dies; considers taking Catherine, but decides to pass her to his son Henry VIII | |
| 1504 | Julius II dissolves marriage between Catherine and Arthur | |
| 1509, June 11 | Henry VIII marries Catherine | |
| 1513 | Catherine presides over Battle of Flodden Field | |
| 1513 | Henry rushes home with keys to Tournai | |
| 1514, December | Boy born to Catherine; dies 6 weeks later | |
| 1516, February 18 | Princess Mary born | |
| 1517, October 31 | Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses on the door of a church in Wittenberg, Germany, formally beginning the Protestant Reformation | |
| 1524, May | William Tyndale expelled | |
| 1525 | Thomas Cromwell helps to suppress 29 monasteries | |
| 1527 | Henry VIII sure of intentions to divorce Catherine | |
| 1527, May | Catherine appeals to Rome | |
| 1529, June | Court opens in England for divorce case | |
| 1529, August | Peace of Cambrai | |
| 1529, August 9 | Writs for new parliament; Thomas Wolsey removed as Lord Chancellor | |
| 1529, October 9 | Wolsey charged on Praemunire | |
| 1529, October 22 | Wolsey confessed his guilt | |
| 1529, November | ‘Reformation parliament’ comes into being | |
| 1529, November 3 | Bill of Attainder against Wolsey | |
| 1530 | Cromwell becomes member of King’s council | |
| 1530, Spring | Wolsey returns to his see at York | |
| 1530, Summer | Writs of Praemunire against 15 clergy | |
| 1530, November | Wolsey in correspondence with French, Holy Roman Emperor, Catherine, Pope | |
| 1530, November 29 | Wolsey dies on way to trial | |
| 1530, December | Cromwell part of the King’s council’s inner ring | |
| 1531 | Henry makes claims to imperial title | |
| 1531 | Henry extends protection to clergymen denying papal supremacy | |
| 1532 | Duke of Norfolk, Duke of Suffolk, Earl of Wiltshire fall out of favour | |
| 1532, March | Supplication Against the Ordinaries | |
| 1532, March | Act in Conditional Restraint of Appeals | |
| 1532, May | Submission of the Clergy | |
| 1532, May 16 | Thomas More resigns | |
| 1532, December | Anne Boleyn becomes pregnant | |
| 1533, January | Thomas Cranmer appointed Archbishop of Canterbury | |
| 1533, March | Statute in Restraint of Appeals | |
| 1533, May | Cranmer declares marriage null and void | |
| 1533, June 25 | Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn at Whitehall | |
| 1533, July 4 | John Frith burned at the stake | |
| 1533, September | Princess Elizabeth born | |
| 1534 | Henry begins negotiations with Paul III | |
| 1534, January to March | Act Concerning Ecclesiastical Appointments and Absolute Restraint of Annates, Act Concerning Peter's Pence and Dispensations, Act of Succession | |
| 1534, March | Clement VII pronounces marriage valid | |
| 1534, April | Elizabeth Barton (‘Nun of Kent’) executed | |
| 1534, November | Act of Supremacy, Treason Act, Act of First Fruits and Tenths | |
| 1535 | Bishop Gardiner's De Vera Obedientia published | |
| 1535 | Cromwell appoints Hugh Latimer, Edward Foxe, Nicholas Shaxton to episcopacy | |
| 1535, May | Middlemore, Exmere, Newdigate locked up for seventeen days. Ten more starve | |
| 1536 | Ten Articles; Act Extinguishing the Authority of the Bishop of Rome; Campeggio visits England | |
| 1536, January | Anne miscarries again | |
| 1536, March | First Act of Dissolution | |
| 1536, May 19 | Anne Boleyn is executed | |
| 1536, June 22 | John Fisher executed | |
| 1536, July 6 | Thomas More executed | |
| 1536, April | ‘Reformation parliament’ dissolved | |
| 1536, October 1 | Pilgrimage of Grace, Phase One | |
| 1536, October 4 | Pilgrimage of Grace led by 18 members of the gentry | |
| 1536, October 13 | York taken by 10,000 ‘pilgrims’ | |
| 1536, December 8 | Duke of Norfolk offers pardon to rebels | |
| 1537 | Bishops’ Book, John Rogers produces ‘Matthew Bible’ | |
| 1537, January | Phase Three of Pilgrimage of Grace, led by Sir Francis Bigod | |
| 1538 | 'Exeter Conspiracy' | |
| 1539 | Second Act of Dissolution; Henry VIII intervenes to halt the doctrinal reformation | |
| 1540, January 6 | Henry marries Anne of Cleves | |
| 1540, July 9 | Henry’s marriage to Anne of Cleves is annulled | |
| 1540, July 28 | Thomas Cromwell is beheaded | |
| 1540, July 30 | Robert Barnes is burned at the stake | |
| 1540, July 30 | Thomas Abel is burned at the stake | |
| 1543 | Cranmer is arrested on grounds of heresy, The King’s Book is published | |
| 1544 | Bishop Gardiner is targeted | |
| 1546 | ‘Creeping to the Cross’ added to the list of forbidden practises | |
| 1547, January 28 | Henry VIII dies | |
| 1554, February 12 | Lady Jane Grey is executed |
