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1527
Henry VIII's demand
Henry VIII asked the Pope for a divorce -
1529
Pope's refus
Pope has refused for a divorce, not accepted in Catholic -
1533
Act in Restraint of Appeals
Henry VIII established the soverignty of England -
1534
Act of Supremacy
Henry is made head of the church in England -
Period: 1534 to 1547
Henry VIII's Reign
King of England in 1509-1547, heir of Henry VII, the one who had breaking with Rome and created a new church of England -
Period: 1536 to 1539
Beginning of the Church of England
1536:
- Act to dissolve the monasteries: causes (Accusatuins of corruption, money)
- Pilgrimage of Grace: Religious and secular motives for the rebellion
- Ten Articles: a compormise between Catholic doctrine and new Protestant ideas
1537:
- Translation of the Bible in English
1539:
- Realization of the Great Bible
- Six articles -
Period: 1547 to 1553
Edward VI's Reign
Edward VI was protestant, Young king at nine years old, but also dead really young at fifteen year old.
He created many reforms of protestantism -
Period: 1549 to 1553
Prostetant Theology by Edward VI
- 1549: Book of Common Prayer
- 1552: New, more radical edition of the Book of Common Prayer
- 1549; 1552: Acts of Uniformity
- 1552-3: Forty-Two Articles of Faith
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Period: 1553 to 1558
England returned to Catholicism
Mary took the decision to return in Catholicism -
Period: 1553 to 1558
Mary Tudor's Reign
Also named "Bloody Mary", she executed more of 280 protestants, Daughter of Catherine of Aragon and Catholic (she hated Protestants)
1554: she married Philip, Prince of Spain, -
1558
Protestantism came back with Elizabeth
Elizabeth I was Protestant and she hated Protestant -
Period: 1558 to
Elizabeth I's Reign
Daughter of Anne Boleyn, she was protestant,
Her aims:
- Restoring religious unity and political stability to England.
- Making England a great power in Europe and the world. -
1559
Act of Supremacy
Elizabeth I was made Supreme head of the church of England -
1559
Act of Uniformity
doctrine of the Church of England and new Prayer book -
1571
Subscription Act
Forced the Clergy to assent to the 39 articles
it was a crompromise between different religious factions and Elizabeth -
Period: to
Conflict in Europe
1585: Elizabeth did an alliance with Henry IV (France) and Netherlands against Spain and its French allies
1588: defeat of the Spanish Armada (130 ships and 19000 soldiers)
this defeat reveals English identity
1604: peace treaty between England and Spain -
Period: to
Cromwell took the control
Conflict between Presbyterians and Army Republicans
Cromwell tried to revolve but he failed
1653: Cromwell dissolved Parliament became “Lord Protector"
he also passed England from Republic to Protectorate. -
Period: to
James I's Reign
also James VI was a theorist of absolute monarchy,
he did King James Bible in 1611, the policy of religious toleration and was balancing the Arminian Puritan factions in the CoE -
the Gunpowder Plot
They were opposed of Catholic
The crown autorized Catholics but popular were anti-catholicism -
Period: to
Absolute monarchy
- 1610-21: James VI I rules without Parliament
- 1629-40: Charles I rules without Parliament and he wrote his book "Eleven Years of Tyranny".
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Period: to
Charles I's reign
He sought to govern without Parliament
He favoured Arminianism + was seen as too close to Catholicism
He opposed the Presbyteriansim of the Kirk
Exectued in 1649 -
Petition of Right
it's a document which permit to get some specific individual protections against the state -
Period: to
Parliament vs Charles I
it's kind of war between Charles I Parliament, Charles wanted the power for himself in believing in God while Parliament wanted to limit his power.
Moreover, Charles needed money for wars but Parliament refused.
Thus, he created taxes and control the Church of England
And in 1642, a civil war started between Cavaliers (supporters of the king) and Roundheads (supporters of Parliament -
The Irish Rebellion of 1641
Charles I want to extend Arminianism Political obedience but old english elite, Irish Gaelic and Prebyterian disagreed with this idea.
In 1641, rebellion did and there were massacred of English Protestants.
Longer term, they lost of economic and political power and they're created Religious tension -
Period: to
The Second Civil War
New Model Army takeover parliament in removing people which were not agree with Cromwell
5 December: Parliament decides to settle with Charles
Jan. 1649: Charles refused to plead, he's executed on Jan. 30
6-7 Feb. 1649: Cromwell did abolition of the monarchy and the House of Lords -
Period: to
The conquest of Ireland
- Alliance against the Commonwealth, Cromwell sent 120000 troops at Wexford drogheda
- change in economic and politcal power
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Period: to
The Occupation of Scotland
- Support for the Stuarts
- Resistance to Commonwealth
- Military occupation of Scotland
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Period: to
The fall of the Common wealth
Richard Cromwell became Lord protector in 1658
1660:
- George Monk marched on England
- Charles II invited to take the crown