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Thomas More Timeline

By ryotah
  • Period: Feb 7, 1478 to Jul 6, 1535

    Thomas More Timeline

  • Jan 1, 1494

    Goes to oxford for 2 years to study

  • Jan 1, 1499

    Becomes barrister

  • Jan 1, 1504

    Becomes member of parliament

  • Jan 1, 1518

    Becomes the member of the privy council of Henry VIII.

  • Jan 1, 1523

    Elected speaker of parliament

  • Jan 1, 1528

    More published ‘Dialogue concerning Heresies’ against lutherans

  • Jan 1, 1529

    Became Lord Chancellor.

  • Jan 1, 1529

    ’Supplication of Souls’ who criticised the clergy.

  • Jan 1, 1532

    Leave chancellorship finding he cannot help Henry's attempts to divorce Catherine and marry Anne Boleyn.

  • Dec 1, 1533

    not allowed to publish.

  • Apr 1, 1534

    sent to the Tower for not taking the oath of the Act of Succession. While in the Tower writes the discussion of Comfort Against Suffering and De Tristitia Christi.

  • Jul 1, 1535

    -1535- July 1 tried and find guilty for treason.

  • Jul 6, 1535

    beheaded on Tower Hill and dies.