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Period: 1509 to 1547
King Henry VIII's reign
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1529
Rejection of Henry's Petition for a divorce
King Henry VIII wanted to devorce his wife Catherine of Aragon because she did not give him a son, he wanted an alliance with France and not the Habsburgs and finaly because he was in love with her lady in wating, Ann Boleyn. The king tried to devorce but the Pope rejected his petition. -
1533
Act in restrain and appeal
It gives the King the power to pronounce divorce -
1534
Act of Supremacy
By this Act of Supremacy, King Henry VIII become supreme head of the Church of England -
Period: 1547 to 1553
Edward VI's reign
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1549
Publication of the book of Common Prayer
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Period: 1553 to 1558
Mary I's reign
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Period: 1555 to 1558
Protestant confined to secrecy
The Protestant were confines to secresy as Queen Mary I burned et the stake all the protestant -
1557
Act of Supremacy
Queen Elizabeth I abolished the authority of the Pope,
restored, the authority of the Queen over the Church and became “Supreme Governor of the Church of England”. She restablished the First act of Supremacy -
1559
Act of uniformity
The queen ordered by this act the use of the Book of common Prayer in every parish and all the people who did not attend were fined -
Period: 1563 to 1571
The 39 articles of Faith
Doctrine introducing three important changes, a new ecclesiology, a new doctrine of salvation and a new definition of sacraments and of the mass -
1568
Mary of Scots flee Scotland
Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland flee to England because of a civil war -
Period: 1568 to
Mary Stuart's emprisonment
She was retained captive during 19 years in England by Queen Elizabeth I, her cousin -
1570
Excomunication of Queen Elizabeth I
Through a papal bull “Regnans in Excelsis”, Pope Pius V excommmunicated Queen Elizabeth calling her an heretic -
1571
Act of Treason
every person saying that Queen Elizabeth was not the true Queen of England and Wales was qualified as a traitor, it was treason to say so -
1581
Repression of Catholics,
This Act provided for the death penalty for any person converting, or already converted to Catholicism. The participation or celebration of Catholic Mass was now forbidden and Anglican services became compulsory -
The Babington plot
Catholics wanted Mary Stuart on the throne of England because she had successions right, Elizabeth did not have an heir, but their strategies were discovered by the Queen master spy which conduct to the execution of Mary of Scots -
Mary Stuart's execution
Mary of Scots was executed following the babington Plot, she was supposedly part of the Plot and was condemned to be executed in Fotheringham Castle. The day of her execution she was wearing a red dress, colour of the catholics Martyrs, and she prayed in Latin, opposed to the english parayers of the Protestants -
Defeat of the Great Armada
After the attemp of King Phillipe II of Spain, to invade England in order to fight Protestantism, Queen Elizabeth I defeated the Great Armada, the Spanish fleet, because of a new english fleet, a storm that destroyed part of the Spanish fleet and inciendary ships