1510s in England

Events from the 1510s in England.

Incumbents

Monarch - Henry VIII of England

Events

• 1510
  • 21 January - Parliament grants Henry VIII generous tax subsidies.^[1]
  • 31 January - Catherine of Aragon gives birth to her first child, a stillborn daughter.
  • 17 August - Richard Empson and Edmund Dudley executed for 'constructive treason'.^[1]
  • Erasmus begins his period of residence in Cambridge.^[2]
• 1511
  • 9 April - St John's College, Cambridge, receives its charter.
  • July - Henry VIII's flagship the Mary Rose launched at Portsmouth.
  • 13 November - War of the League of Cambrai: Henry joins the Holy League against France.^[3]
  • 17 November - The Treaty of Westminster signed between England and Spain forming an alliance against France.^[3]
• 1512
  • February - Following Strode's case — that of Member of Parliament Richard Strode imprisoned by a Stannary Court due to his attempts to introduce a bill alleviating the harsh conditions of tin miners — parliament passes an act granting MPs immunity from such prosecutions.^[4]
  • March - Parliament authorises a new poll tax to pay for the War of the League of Cambrai.^[1]
  • 10 August - War of the League of Cambrai: English naval victory at the Battle of St. Mathieu over the French.
  • Wolverhampton Grammar School is founded by Sir Stephen Jenyns.
• 1513
  • 5 April - Treaty of Mechlin signed by Henry, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, Ferdinand II of Aragon and Pope Leo X against France.^[3]
  • 30 April - Execution of Edmund de la Pole, 3rd Duke of Suffolk.
  • July - War of the League of Cambrai: Scotland declares war on England.^[3]
  • 16 August - War of the League of Cambrai: Henry VIII leads his troops to victory over the French at the Battle of Guinegate.^[3]
  • 9 September - War of the League of Cambrai: At the Battle of Flodden Field, King James IV of Scotland is defeated and killed by an English army under Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey.^[3]
  • 24 September - War of the League of Cambrai: The city of Tournai surrenders to England.^[3]
• 1514
  • April - War of the League of Cambrai: Henry VIII declares a truce with France.^[3]
  • June - Henry Grace a Dieu, at over 1,000 tons the largest warship in the world at the time, is launched.^[1]
  • 15 September - Thomas Wolsey is appointed Archbishop of York.^[3]
  • 9 October - Marriage of Louis XII of France and Mary Tudor.^[3]
  • Trinity House established in London.^[3]
  • Construction of Wolsey's York House in London begins.^[1]
• 1515
  • 2 July - Manchester Grammar School endowed by Hugh Oldham, the first free grammar school in England.
  • 10 September - Thomas Wolsey invested as a Cardinal.^[3]
  • 24 December - Wolsey is named the Lord Chancellor.^[3]
  • Wolsey commissions the rebuilding of Hampton Court Palace.^[3]
  • Structural completion of King's College Chapel, Cambridge.^[5]
• 1516
  • Thomas More's Utopia published.^[1]
• 1517
  • 1 May - Evil May Day riots in London against foreigners.^[3]
  • Corpus Christi College, Oxford established by Richard Foxe.^[3]
  • A third epidemic of sweating sickness hits Oxford and Cambridge.
• 1518
  • October 3 - Cardinal Wolsey's Treaty of London is signed by France, England, the Holy Roman Empire, the Papacy, Spain, Burgundy and the Netherlands allying the European powers against the Ottoman Empire.^[3]
  • Royal College of Physicians founded in London.^[3]
• 1519
  • May - Henry VIII stands as a candidate in the election of the Holy Roman Emperor.^[3]
  • 15 May - Official opening of Saint George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.^[1]
  • Henry VII's Chapel at Westminster Abbey completed.^[1]

Births

• 1510
  • 6 October
    • John Caius, physician (died 1573)
    • Rowland Taylor, Protestant martyr (died 1555)
• 1511
  • 1 January - Henry, Duke of Cornwall, eldest son of Henry VIII of England (died 22 February)
• 1512
  • Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII (died 1536)
  • Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln, admiral (died 1585)
• 1513
  • 23 December - Thomas Smith, scholar and diplomat (died 1577)
  • Elizabeth Seymour, sister-in-law of Henry VIII (died 1563)
• 1514
  • 16 June - John Cheke, classical scholar and statesman (died 1557)
  • December - Henry, Duke of Cornwall, third son of Henry VIII (stillborn)
• 1515
  • 22 September - Anne of Cleves, fourth queen of Henry VIII (died 1557)
  • Roger Ascham, scholar and didactic writer (died 1568)
  • Thomas Seckford, Master of Requests for Elizabeth I of England (died 1587)
  • Thomas Watson, Catholic Bishop (died 1584)
  • Nicholas Throckmorton, churchman, last abbot of Westminster (died 1571)
• 1516
  • 18 February - Queen Mary I of England (died 1558)
• 1517
  • 16 July - Lady Frances Brandon, granddaughter of Henry VII (died 1559)
  • Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, aristocrat (died 1547)
• 1518
  • Edmund Plowden, legal scholar (died 1585)
• 1519
  • Nicholas Grimald, poet (died 1562)
  • Edwin Sandys, prelate (died 1588)
  • Thomas Gresham, merchant and financier (died 1579)

Deaths

• 1510
  • 17 August
    • Edmund Dudley, statesman (born c. 1462)
    • Richard Empson, statesman (year of birth unknown)
• 1511
  • 11 February - Henry, Duke of Cornwall, eldest son of Henry VIII of England (born 1 January)
• 1513
  • 10 March - John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, general (born 1443)
  • 30 April - Edmund de la Pole, 3rd Duke of Suffolk (born 1471)
  • 27 October - George Manners, 12th Baron de Ros, nobleman (year of birth unknown)
  • Robert Fabyan, chronicler (year of birth unknown)
• 1514
  • 2 January - William Smyth, bishop and statesman (born 1460)
  • December - Henry, Duke of Cornwall, third son of Henry VIII of England (stillborn)
• 1516
  • 25 April - John Yonge, diplomat (born 1467)
• 1518
  • 20 November - Marmaduke Constable, soldier (born c. 1455)
• 1519
  • 10 September - John Colet, churchman and educator (born 1467)
  • William Grocyn, scholar (born 1446)

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