1510s in England
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Events from the 1510s in England.
Incumbents
Monarch - Henry VIII
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]
- Archery Act attempts to ensure competence in use of the English longbow by most adult males.
- Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, begins reconstruction of Thornbury Castle in South Gloucestershire as a residence.
- 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: The English fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir Edward Howard, secures victory at the Battle of Saint-Mathieu over the French-Breton fleet, though with loss of its flagship, the Regent, through explosion.
- 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 - Henry VIII declares a truce with France in the War of the League of Cambrai.[3]
- 20 May - Trinity House is established as a guild of mariners at Deptford to regulate pilotage.[3]
- June - Battle of Hornshole in the Scottish Borders: Young men from Hawick defeat a raiding party from England.[5]
- 13 June - Henry Grace à Dieu, at over 1,000 tons the largest warship in the world at this time, built at the new Woolwich Dockyard, is dedicated at Erith.[1][6][7]
- 7 August - Henry VIII concludes an independent peace treaty with France in the War of the League of Cambrai, negotiated by Thomas Wolsey.
- 15 September - Thomas Wolsey is appointed Archbishop of York[3] and begins to build York House in London.[1]
- 9 October - Marriage of Louis XII of France and Mary Tudor (sister of Henry VIII) as part of the peace with France.[3]
- 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.[8]
- 1516
- Gillingham School founded in Dorset.
- c. December - Thomas More's Utopia is first published (in Latin at Leuven).[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
- August - Construction of the Manchester Grammar School is completed.
- 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)
- 28 December - Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper (died 1579)
- 6 October
- 1511
- 1 January - Henry, Duke of Cornwall, eldest son of Henry VIII of England (died 22 February)
- 1512
- 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)
- Thomas Watson, Catholic bishop (died 1584)
- 1514
- 16 June - John Cheke, classical scholar and statesman (died 1557)
- December - Henry, Duke of Cornwall, third son of Henry VIII (stillborn)
- 1515
- 15 June - Anne Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, born Anne Parr (died 1552)
- 22 September - Anne of Cleves, German-born fourth queen of Henry VIII (died 1557)
- approx. date
- Roger Ascham, scholar and didactic writer (died 1568)
- William Baldwin, writer, editor and theatrical director (died c.1563)
- Leonard Digges, mathematician and surveyor (died c.1559)
- Thomas Seckford, lawyer and royal court official (died 1587)
- 1516
- 18 February - Queen Mary I of England (died 1558)
- approx. date - Laurence Nowell, antiquarian (died 1571)
- 1517
- 16 July - Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk, granddaughter of Henry VII (died 1559)
- approx. date - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, aristocrat (died 1547)
- 1518
- approx. date - Edmund Plowden, legal scholar (died 1585)
- 1519
- approx. date
- Thomas Gresham, merchant and financier (died 1579)
- Nicholas Grimald, poet (died 1562)
- Edwin Sandys, bishop (died 1588)
- approx. date
Deaths
- 1510
- 17 August
- Edmund Dudley, statesman (born c. 1462)
- Richard Empson, statesman (year of birth unknown)
- 17 August
- 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, 11th 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)
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 139–142. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ↑ "Erasmus, Desiderius (ERSS465D)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 197–204. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ↑ Text of the 1510s in England as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from the UK Statute Law Database
- ↑ "Hornshole Battle Site". Discover the Borders. Retrieved 2013-08-06.
- ↑ Paine, Lincoln P. (1997). Ships of the World: an Historical Encyclopedia. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-85177-739-2.
- ↑ Henry Grace à Dieu.
- ↑ Sutton, Ian (1999). Architecture, from Ancient Greece to the Present. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-20316-3.
See also
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