1530s in England

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Events from the 1530s in England.

1 Incumbents
2 Events
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 References
6 See also

Incumbents

Monarch - Henry VIII of England

Events

1530
- 26 January - Thomas Boleyn becomes Keeper of the Privy Seal.^[1]
- 6 February - Charles Brandon becomes Lord President of the Council.^[1]
- May - William Tyndale's Bible publicly burned as heretical.^[1]
- 4 November - Cardinal Wolsey arrested as a traitor for secretly communicating with Pope Clement VII.^[2]
- Parliament of England passes the Egyptians Act in attempt to expel Gypsies.^[3]
1531
- 11 February - Henry VIII recognised as supreme head of the Church of England.^[2]
- March - Statute Against Vagabonds requires registration of all genuine beggars; unlicensed beggars to be whipped or pilloried.^[1]
- Thomas Elyot's book The Boke Named the Governour is published, the first English work concerning moral philosophy.
- Construction of the Great Hall of Hampton Court begins.^[1]
1532
- 15 April - Submission of the Clergy: Royal approval required for all ecclesiastical laws.^[1]
- 16 May - Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor.^[2]
- 20 May - Thomas Audley appointed Lord Keeper of the Great Seal.^[2]
- 1 September - Anne Boleyn is created Marquess of Pembroke by Henry VIII.^[1]
- Henry VIII grants the Thorne brothers a Royal Charter to found Bristol Grammar School.
- Construction of Saint James's Palace begins.^[1]
1533
- 25 January - King Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn, his second Queen consort.^[4]
- 6 February - Act in Restraint of Appeals declares England to be a wholly independent 'empire'.^[1]
- 30 March - Thomas Cranmer becomes Archbishop of Canterbury.^[4]
- 12 April - Thomas Cromwell becomes Secretary of State.^[1]
- 23 May - Henry VIII's marriage with Catherine of Aragon officially declared annulled. Catherine refuses to accept and continues to believe herself the wife of Henry till her death.^[5]
- 28 May - Cranmer declares the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn valid.^[5]
- 1 June - Anne Boleyn crowned Queen.^[4]
- 11 July - Pope Clement VII excommunicates Henry VIII.^[6]
- Sumptuary law, An Act for reformation of excess in apparel, passed.
- Buggery Act (applicable from 1534) makes buggery subject to the death penalty, the first time such acts had been legislated for outside the ecclesiastical courts.^[7]
1534
- 15 January - Parliament of England passes the Act Respecting the Oath to the Succession recognising the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, and their children as the legitimate heirs to the throne.^[2]
- 20 April - Elizabeth Barton executed for making prophesies against King Henry.^[1]
- 3 November–18 December - The Reformation Parliament passes the Act of Supremacy establishing Henry VIII as supreme head of the Church of England.^[2]
- Cambridge University Press is given a Royal Charter by Henry VIII and becomes the first of the privileged presses.
1535
- March - English forces under William Skeffington storm Maynooth Castle in Ireland, the stronghold of Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare.^[8]
- 20 May - William Tyndale arrested in Antwerp for heresy in relation to this bible translation.^[5]
- 22 June - Execution of John Fisher for his refusal to swear an oath of loyalty to Henry VIII.^[2]
- 6 July - Sir Thomas More is executed for treason by King Henry VIII after refusing to agree to Henry's decision to separate the English church from the Roman Catholic church.^[8]
- First of the Laws in Wales Acts passed, beginning the Anglicisation of the Welsh legal system.^[8]
- Study of canon law at English universities prohibited.^[1]
- Beard tax introduced.
1536
- April - An Acte for Laws & Justice to be ministred in Wales in like fourme as it is in this Realme (27 Henry VIII c. 26) further incorporates the legal system of Wales into that of England.^[1]
- 14 April - The Reformation Parliament passes an Act for the Dissolution of the Monasteries.^[2]
- 19 May - Execution of Anne Boleyn.^[9]
- 30 May - Henry VIII marries Jane Seymour.^[9]
- 11 July - Thomas Cranmer's Ten Articles are presented to Parliament.^[1]
- 6 October - Bible translator William Tyndale burnt at the stake in Vilvoorde, Flanders.^[2]
- 1 October–5 December - The Pilgrimage of Grace, a rebellion against Henry VIII's church reforms.^[2]
- 29 October - Coronation of Jane Seymour as the Queen of England.
- Various religious buildings are closed as part of Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries, including
1537
- January - Bigod's Rebellion, an armed insurrection by Roman Catholics in Cumberland and Westmorland against the king.
- July - Pilgrimage of Grace: Robert Aske executed along with over 200 other rebels.^[1]
- 25 August - The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army and the second most senior, is formed.
- 15 October - Council of the North meets for the first time, in York.^[1]
- Publication of the Matthew Bible, the first complete English translation of the bible.^[2]
- Dissolution of religious buildings by Henry VIII, including
  - Bisham Priory (Bisham Abbey being founded by Henry VIII in its place)
  - Bridlington Priory
  - Castle Acre Priory
  - Valle Crucis Abbey
1538
- 30 November - Byland Abbey is dissolved.
- Bisham Abbey dissolved.
1539
- March - Canterbury Cathedral surrenders, and reverts to its previous status of 'a college of secular canons'.
- March - Invasion scare, following reports of an alliance between Spain, France, and Scotland.^[1]
- May - The Six Articles reaffirm certain Catholic principles in Henry VIII's Church of England.^[10]
- 4 October - A treaty arranges for Henry VIII to marry Anne of Cleves.^[2]
- Beaulieu Abbey, Bolton Abbey, Colchester Abbey, St Albans Abbey and Hartland Abbey (the last) dissolved.
- Great Bible (The Byble in Englyshe) distributed to churches.^[1]
- Game Place House in Great Yarmouth becomes the first premises to be used regularly as a public theatre.^[11]

Births

1530
- Thomas Hoby, diplomat and translator (died 1566)
- Ralph Lane, explorer (died 1603)
- Richard Tarlton, actor (died 1588)
- Nicholas Sanders, Catholic propagandist (died 1581)
1531
- September - Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby (died 1594)
- John Popham, Lord Chief Justice of England (died 1607)
1532
- 24 June - Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, politician (died 1588)
- William Allen, cardinal (died 1594)
- John Hawkins, navigator (died 1595)
- Henry Percy, 8th Earl of Northumberland (died 1585)
- Thomas Norton, lawyer (died 1584)
- Richard Topcliffe, landowner and MP (died 1604)
1533
- 7 September - Queen Elizabeth I of England (died 1603)
1534
- 18 April - William Harrison, clergyman (died 1593)
- Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, statesman (died 1601)
- Amy Robsart, wife of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (died 1560)
1535
- Robert Parsons, composer (died 1572)
- Thomas North, translator (died 1601)
1536
- 10 March - Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, politician (died 1572)
- Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, statesman and poet (died 1608)
- Guilford Dudley, son of John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland (died 1554)
- Roger Marbeck, chief physician to Elizabeth I(died 1604)
- Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, statesman and admiral (died 1624)
1537
- 28 June - Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel, nobleman (died 1595)
- 12 October - King Edward VI of England (died 1553)
- 12 October - Lady Jane Grey, claimant to the throne of England (died 1554)
- Jane Lumley, translator (died 1578)

Deaths

1530
- 29 November - Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, statesman (born c. 1473)
1532
- 31 January - Edward Sutton, 2nd Baron Dudley (born 1460)
- May - Elizabeth Stafford, Countess of Sussex (year of birth unknown)
- 22 August - William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1450)
1533
- 28 April - Nicholas West, bishop and diplomat (born 1461)
- 4 July - John Frith, Protestant priest and martyr (born 1503)
1534
- 20 April - Elizabeth Barton, nun (executed) (born 1506)
- Edward Guilford, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (born 1474)
- William Blount, 4th Baron Mountjoy, scholar and patron (born c. 1478)
- John Taylor, Master of the Rolls (born 1480)
1535
- 4 May - John Houghton, Robert Lawrence, Augustine Webster, Prior and monks of the London Charterhouse, along with Richard Reynolds, Bridgettine monk of Syon (executed)
- 22 June - John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester (executed) (born c. 1469)
- 6 July - Sir Thomas More, lawyer, writer, and politician (executed) (born 1478)
- September - George Nevill, 5th Baron Bergavenny (born 1469)
- 31 December - William Skeffington, Lord Deputy of Ireland (born 1465)
1536
- 7 January - Catherine of Aragon, queen of Henry VIII (born 1485)
- 17 May - George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford, diplomat (born 1503)
- 19 May - Anne Boleyn, queen of Henry VIII (executed) (born c. 1511)
- 18 June - Henry Fitzroy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset, illegitimate son of Henry VIII (born 1519)
- 28 June - Richard Pace, diplomat (born 1482)
- 6 October - William Tyndale, Protestant scholar (burned at the stake) (born 1484)
- 21 December - Sir John Seymour, courtier (born 1474)
- John Rastell, printer and author (born c. 1475)
1537
- 24 October - Jane Seymour, queen of Henry VIII (complications of childbirth) (born c. 1507)
- Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland (born 1502)
1538
- 8 May - Edward Foxe, churchman (born 1496)
- 22 May - John Forrest, Franciscan friar (martyred) (born 1471)
- 22 November - John Lambert, Protestant martyr (burned at stake) (year of birth unknown)
- Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire (born 1480)
1539
- 12 March - Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, diplomat and politician (born 1477)
- 8 September - John Stokesley, prelate (born 1475)
- 15 November - Hugh Cook Faringdon, Abbot of Reading (year of birth unknown)

References

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^ Friar, Stephen (2001). The Sutton Companion to Local History (rev. ed.). Stroud: Sutton Publishing. p. 195. ISBN 0-7509-2723-2.
^ ^a ^b ^c Everett, Jason M., ed (2006). "1533". The People's Chronology. Thomson Gale.
^ ^a ^b ^c Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
^ Historians disagree on the exact date of the excommunication; according to Winston Churchill's A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, the bull of 1533 was a draft with penalties left blank and was not made official until 1535. Others say Henry was not officially excommunicated until 1538 by Pope Paul III, brother of Cardinal Franklin de la Thomas.
^ "The Law in England, 1290-1885". People with a History. 1997-1998. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/pwh/englaw.html. Retrieved 2010-11-12.
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^ ^a ^b Everett, Jason M., ed (2006). "1536". The People's Chronology. Thomson Gale.
^ Everett, Jason M., ed (2006). "1539". The People's Chronology. Thomson Gale.
^ Robertson, Patrick (1974). The Shell Book of Firsts. London: Ebury Press. p. 189. ISBN 0-7181-1279-2.

1530s in England

Contents

Incumbents

Events

Births

Deaths

References

See also