British history

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  • 1508

    Ninety-Five Theses

  • Period: 1509 to 1565

    Henry VIII's reign

  • 1519

    Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn

  • 1526

    Tyndale Bible

  • 1529

    The Pope rejects Henry's petition for a divorce

  • 1534

    Act of Supremacy

    With this act, the King was made "Supreme Head of the Church of England". This is when the schism happened.
  • Period: 1536 to 1541

    Disbanding of the monasteries

    Henry VIII decided that the monasteries were bastions of "popery". The monasteries were therefore disbanded and the Crown appropriated their income and land. This dissolution was a kind of nationalism.
  • Period: 1536 to 1537

    Pilgrimages of Grace

    Rebellions in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire that interrupted the process of dissolution of the monasteries.
    Greatest rebellions ever faced by a Tudor monarch.
  • Period: 1547 to 1533

    Edward VI's reign

  • 1549

    Publication of the Book of Common Prayer

    Under Edward VI's reign, the mass-book was revised which led to the publication of the Book of Common Prayer.
  • Period: 1553 to 1558

    Mary I's reign

  • Period: 1555 to 1558

    Burning of heretics (Protestants)

    Protestantism was confined to secrecy as heretics were burned. Under Mary's brief reign, over 2000 Protestants went to the stake.
  • 1559

    Act of Supremacy

    Abolished the authority of the Pope, restored the authority of the Queen over the Church which became "Supreme Governor of the Church of England".
  • 1559

    Act of Uniformity

    Stated that every parish had to use the Book of Common Prayer, and that people who did not attend an Anglican service were fined.
  • Period: 1563 to 1554

    39 articles of faith

    Stated the doctrine of the Church.
    3 important changes: a new ecclesiology, new doctrine of Salvation, new definition of sacraments and of the mass.
  • 1570

    Papal bull "Regnans in Excercis" of Pope Pius V

    Called "the so-called queen", and excommunicated Elizabeth.
  • 1577

    Babington plot

  • Execution of Mary Queen of Scots

    She was executed in Fortherinham Castle, wearing a bright red dress, the colour of Catholic martyrs.
    This was right after the Babington plot which it is assumed she was involved in.