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Period: 1509 to 1547
Reign of King Henri VIII of England
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1534
Act of Succession
Henry’s marriage with Catherine is void and their child, Mary, deemed illegitimate. -
1534
1534: Act of Supremacy
The Act recognized Henry VIII as the “Supreme Head of the Church of England.” The act also required an oath of loyalty from English subjects that recognized his marriage to Anne Boleyn. -
1536
Acts of Union with Wales 1536
Wales was annexed to England and the norms of English administration were introduced as to create one state. It was an act of Parliament passed during the reign of King Henri VIII of England. -
Period: 1536 to 1540
Dissolution of the monasteries and redistribution of monastic property.
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1537
Coverdale Bible dedicated to Henry VIII
Coverdale’s Bible (first published in Antwerp in 1535) is printed with the royal licence in 1537 in England (but not fully accepted by the Church) and is the first complete Bible (OT and NT) in English in print. -
1539
The Great Bible
The Great Bible (first published in 1539) was the first authorised edition of Bible (of the Church of England) in the English language.It was based on Coverdale’s 1535 adaptation of Tyndale’s banned translation. -
1539
Six Articles of Faith
As the Protestant Reformers were gaining ground,Henry VIII decided the Reformation had gone far enough and feared invasion from Catholic European countries if England was “too Protestant”. He wished to put an end to discord and religious diversity using "the Six Articles of Faith" that shocked the reformers. They called it a “whip with six strings” and it reasserted in many ways the Catholic faith: the celibacy of priests and the doctrine of transubstantiation. -
1543
Act of Union with Wales 1543
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May 12, 1543
Act for the Advancement of True Religion
It restricted the reading of the Bible to clerics, noblemen, the gentry and richer merchants. Women below gentry rank, servants, apprentices and generally poor people were forbidden to read it. Women of the gentry and nobility were only allowed to read the Bible in private. -
Period: 1547 to 1553
Reign of King Edward VI of England
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1549
The Book of Common Prayer
The Book of Common Prayer was a way of achieving religious unity by making the rites of the Anglican liturgy uniform.
The two editions (1549 & 1552) had to be approved by Parliament and to be enforced by Acts of Uniformity, so that the doctrines and liturgy of the English Church now rested on parliamentary authority. -
Period: Jul 10, 1553 to Jul 19, 1553
Reign of Lady Jane Grey
Lady Jane Grey (great grand-daughter of Henry VIII): The Nine Days’ Protestant Queen -
Period: Jul 19, 1553 to 1558
Reign of "Bloody" Mary
Daughter of Henri VIII and Catherine of Aragon -
1554
Wyatt Rebellion
An unsuccessful uprising in England in early 1554 led by four men, one of whom was Sir Thomas Wyatt.
The uprising was caused by a fear of England becoming re-Catholicised combined with the proposed marriage between Mary and Philip of Spain -
Period: 1554 to 1561
"Rough Wooing"
It was part of the Anglo-Scottish Wars of the 16th century.
Henry VIII ordered an invasion of Scotland because he wanted to bring to an end to the Auld Alliance (friendship between Scotland and France). He was also angered that Mary Stuart wouldn't marry his son Edward. -
1558
Act of Supremacy
It declares the Queen Supreme Governor of the Church of England -
Period: 1558 to
Reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England
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Period: 1558 to 1563
“Elizabethan religious settlement”
The name given to the religious and political decisions made during the reign of Elizabeth I, for England to unify the Church.
The settlement is considered the end of the English Reformation -
1559
Act of Uniformity
It says that people must attend church services once a week and use The Book of Common Prayer -
1570
Elizabeth I's Excommunication
Pope Pius V declared that Elizabeth was a heretic and she was excommunicated by way of a Papal Bull (order). The Bull released Catholics from any loyalty to Elizabeth and called upon them to remove her from the throne. -
The Babington Plot
It was a plan in 1586 to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I, a Protestant, and put Mary, Queen of Scots, on the English throne. It led to Mary's execution, a result of a letter sent by Mary (who had been imprisoned for 19 years since 1568 in England) in which she consented to the assassination of Elizabeth. -
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Reign of King James I of England
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The Hampton Court Conference
was a meeting convened at Hampton Court Palace, for discussion between King James I of England and representatives of the Church of England, including leading English Puritans -
The Gunpowder Plot
Guy Fawkes and other Catholic conspirators attempted to blow up King James I and the Parliament. -
King James' Bible
The King James Version ( KJV )/ King James Bible ( KJB)/ the Authorized Version ( AV ), is an English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England, -
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Reign of King Charles I of England
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The Petition of Rights
Is an English constitutional document setting out specific individual protections against the state -
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"Personal Rule"
Charles I ruled without Parliament -
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The Bishops War
It opposed King Charles I to the Scottish Presbyterians. The starting point of this war was the use of a New Prayer Book by Scottish people in 1637 -
The Grand Remonstrance
The "Long Parliament" votes a list of complaints for Charles I to make reforms, which he rejected. -
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1st Civil War
the supporters of King Charles I against the supporters of the Long Parliament
Cause: Charles’s personal mistakes between 1640 and 1642, constitutional issues but above all, religion. -
Nottingham
Charles I declares War on his own people at Nottingham -
The Battle of Edgehill
Oliver Cromwell first took command of Roundhead army -
Solemn Leagued Covenant
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A Directory for The Public Worship of God, Throughout the Three Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
Together with an Ordinance of Parliament for the taking away of the Book of Common-Prayer:
And For establishing and observing this present Directory throughout the Kingdom of England, and Dominion of Wales -
Marston Moor
Parliamentary army wins at Marston -
Battle of Naseby
The "New Model Army" wins -
Putney debates
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Agreement of the People
It was a series of manifestos, published between 1647 and1649, for constitutional changes to the English state -
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2nd Civil War
The supporters of King Charles I were against the supporters of the Long Parliament; a revolve of the Provinces against centralization and military rule. -
Battle of Preston
Cromwell's army defeated the Royalists at Preston, on August 17-19, 1648 -
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The Commonwealth
England entered a new political field: became a Republic.
Monarchy was abolished and the House of Lords and the Anglican Church were suppressed.
+ governed by the Rump Parliament -
Execution of Charles I
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3rd Civil War
The supporters of King Charles II were against the supporters of the Rump Parliament -
Battle of Dunbar
the first major battle of the 1650 invasion of Scotland.
English troops, commanded by Oliver Cromwell, defeated the Scottish army. -
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The Protectorate
The Protectorate was the period of the Commonwealth (also reffered to as the Interregnum) during which England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland and the English overseas possessions were governed by a Lord Protector as a republic. The Protectorate began in 1653, with the dissolution of the Rump Parliament -
The Restoration
The Restoration of the Stuart monarchy in the kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland took place in 1660 when King Charles II returned from exile in continental Europe. -
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Reign of King Charles II of England
On 8th of May 1660, he was proclaimeed King of England. -
Declaration of Breda
Charles II promised a general pardon for the crimes committed during the English Civil War and the Interregnum for all those who recognized Charles as the lawful king. -
The Test Acts
All officers had to take the Oath of Supremacy (= to swear allegiance to the monarch as Supreme Governor of the Church of England) as well as subscribe to a declaration against transubstantiation. -
The Test Acts
The law was extended to all peers and members of the House of Commons. They had to subscribe to a declaration against transubstantiation, invocation of saints, the sacrifice of the mass, all three major Catholic articles of faith. -
The Habeas Corpus Act
The Habeas Corpus Act is a direct consequence of the Exclusion Crisis. Shaftesbury and the Whigs were so deeply convinced that, should he come to the throne, James would rule arbitrarily, that they thought they had to pre-empt any royal excesses.
The Act was passed by Parliament because King Charles II had to assent in order to placate the Exclusionists and secure his brother James’s succession. -
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Reign of King James II of England
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The Bill of Rights
It established the doctrine of Parliamentary supremacy, meaning that Parliament became the supreme source of law-making over the monarch and the courts. It declared illegal the practice of prosecuting anyone in the courts for causes unless it was by the authority of Parliament. -
The Toleration Act
Its passing was encouraged by William III, which guaranteed religious freedom to Protestant Nonconformists in locations licensed by Anglican Bishops. -
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Reign of William III and Mary II as co-monarchs
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The Act of Settlement
It is an Act of the Parliament of England that was passed to settle the succession to the English and Irish crowns on Protestants only. -
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Reign of Queen Anne of England
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Act of Union
The Acts of Union, passed by the English and Scottish Parliaments in 1707, led to the creation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain.