1485 Battle of Bosworth

1486 Henry VII married Elizabeth of York

1492 Columbus' first voyage to America

1502 Death of Prince Arthur

1509 Henry VIII married Catherine of Aragon

1513 X Spurs (against France) and X Flodden (against the Scots)

1517 Martin Luther criticised the Pope

1520 Field of Cloth of Gold

1522 The pope gave Henry VIII the title 'Defender of the Faith'

1530 Death of Wolsey

1533 Thomas Cranmer made archbishop of Canterbury

1534 Parliament passed the Act of Supremacy

1535 Sir Thomas More executed

1536 Pilgrimage of Grace

1540 Completion of the Dissolution of the Monasteries – and fall of Thomas Cromwell

1545 Sinking of the Mary Rose

1547 Duke of Somerset made Protector for Edward VI

1549 First Prayer Book in English

Ket's Rebellion against enclosures – and fall of the Duke of Somerset

1553 The Duke of Northumberland tried to install Lady Jane Grey as Queen – and failed

1554 Wyatt's revolt

1555 Burning of the Protestant bishops Latimer and Ridley

1556 Burning of the Protestant archbishop Cranmer

1558 Loss of Calais

 

1559 Elizabeth I’s Church Settlement

1568 Mary, Queen of Scots fled to

1569 Rebellion of the Northern

1570 The Pope excommunicated Elizabeth I

1577-80 Drake’s World Voyage

1586 Babington Plot –

1587 Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots

1588 Spanish Armada

1603 Union of the English and Scottish crowns –

1605 Gunpowder Plot

1611 Authorised Version of the Bible

1620 The Pilgrim Fathers sailed to America

                              1625 Failure of Cadiz Expedition

1627 Failure of La Rochelle Expedition

1628 Petition of Right

Murder of Buckingham

1629-40 Charles I’s ‘Personal Rule’ 11 years tyranny

1633 William Laud made archbishop of Canterbury

1637 Trial of John Hampden

1638 Scots signed a National Covenant

1639 Scots Army invaded England – the ‘First Bishop’s War’

1640 Charles I called the Short Parliament

The Long Parliament

1641 Execution of the Earl of Strafford

1642 Charles I attempted to arrest the ‘Five

X Edgehill

1643 Solemn League and Covenant

1644 X Marston Moor

1644-5 Formation of Parliament’s New Model Army

1645 X Naseby

1646 Charles I surrendered to the Scots

1648 X Preston

Pride’s Purge

1649 Trial and execution of Charles I

1649 Start of the Commonwealth

Cromwell sent to pacify Ireland – involving two bloody massacres

1650 X Dunbar

1651 X Worcester

1653 Cromwell expelled the Rump – and became Protector through the Instrument of Government

1655-56 Rule of the Major-Generals

1658 X Dunes

Death of Oliver Cromwell

1660 The Restoration Charles II becomes King

1661-5 The Clarendon

1665 Great Plague

1666 Great Fire of London

1667 Dutch in the Medway

1673 Test Act

1678-81 Popish Plot

1679 Exclusion Bill

1685 Monmouth’s Rebellion

1687 Declaration of Indulgence

1688 Trial of the Seven

Birth of James II’s son

                              Invasion of England by William of Orange – a Dutch Protestant with a claim to the throne

1688 Invasion of England by William of Orange

1689 Glorious Revolution

Siege of Londonderry

1690 X Boyne

1694 Bank of England

1702 Start of the War of the Spanish Succession

1706 X Ramillies

1708 X Oudenarde

1709 X Malplaquet