Edward VI

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  • Oct 12, 1537

    Edward VI Born

    Hampton Court, only legitimate son of Henry VIII.
  • Jan 28, 1547

    Edward becomes king, aged 9

    His uncle, Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, establishes himself as Protector. Somerset and the Archbishop of Canterbury (Thomas Cranmer) wanted to make England Protestant.
  • Jan 21, 1549

    First Act of Uniformity passed, English Prayer Book issued.

    makes Roman Catholic mass illegal; clergy ordered to remove icons and statues of the saints, and whitewash over wall paintings. Service must be in English, not Latin.
  • Jun 17, 1549

    Summer - peasants in West Country revolt r.e. Prayer Book,

    Kett's Rebellion in Norfolk was focused on economic and social injustices, supressed by John Dudley, Earl of Warwick. Dudley used this to bring down Somerset, who was arrested and later executed. Although Dudley, later duke of Northumberland, never took the title of protector, he acted as if he were.
  • Jun 17, 1549

    Summer - France declares war on England

  • Dec 1, 1549

    Dec - enforce use of new versions of service book

    Parliament passed laws that would speed up the removal of images in churches and enforce the use of new versions of the service book
  • Jun 17, 1552

    Jun - Act of Uniformity 1552

    replaced the Book of Common Prayer authorised by the Act of Uniformity 1549 with a revised and more clearly Protestant version. If this book wasn't used was arrested - 6 months for a first offence, a year for a second, and life for a 3rd.
  • Jul 6, 1553

    Edward VI Dies

    It became clear he suffered from TB and wouldn't live long - in order to keep his reforms, Northumberland persuaded him to declare Mary illigitimate and declare Lady Jane Grey his heir.