Timeline of the English Reformation

This is a timeline of the Protestant Reformation in England. The list is not complete and you are welcome to expand it.

See also: Timeline of the Protestant Reformation, English Reformation, and Protestant Reformation

Date	Event	Significance to the Reformation in England
1496	Catherine of Aragon's hand secured for Arthur, Prince of Wales, son of Henry VII
1501, October	Arthur marries Catherine
1502, April	Arthur dies of tuberculosis
1503	Henry VII's wife dies; considers taking Catherine, but decides to pass her to his son Henry VIII
1504	Pope Julius II dissolves marriage between Catherine and Arthur
11 June 1509	Henry VIII marries Catherine
1514, December	Boy born to Catherine; dies 6 weeks later
18 February 1516	Princess Mary born
31 October 1517	Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses on the door of a church in Wittenberg, Germany, formally beginning the Protestant Reformation
1521	Pope Leo X rewards Henry VIII for his written attack on Luther by granting him the title "Defender of the Faith"	Henry remains allied with Rome
1524, May	William Tyndale expelled
1525	Thomas Cromwell helps to suppress 29 monasteries
1527	Henry VIII sure of intentions to divorce Catherine
1527, May	Catherine appeals to Rome
1529, June	Court opens in England for divorce case
1529, August	Peace of Cambrai
9 August 1529	Writs for new parliament; Thomas Wolsey removed as Lord Chancellor
9 October 1529	Wolsey charged on Praemunire
1529, 22 October	Wolsey confessed his guilt
1529, November	'Reformation parliament' comes into being
1529, 3 November	Bill of Attainder against Wolsey
1530	Cromwell becomes member of King's council
1530, Spring	Wolsey returns to his see at York
1530, Summer	Writs of Praemunire against 15 clergy
1530, November	Wolsey in correspondence with French, Holy Roman Emperor, Catherine, Pope
29 November 1530	Wolsey dies on way to trial
1530, December	Cromwell part of the King's council's inner ring
1531	Henry makes claims to imperial title
1531	Henry extends protection to clergymen denying papal supremacy
1532	Duke of Norfolk, Duke of Suffolk, Earl of Wiltshire fall out of favour
1532, March	Supplication Against the Ordinaries
1532, March	Act in Conditional Restraint of Appeals
1532, May	Submission of the Clergy
16 May 1532	Thomas More resigns
1532, December	Anne Boleyn becomes pregnant
1533, January	Thomas Cranmer appointed Archbishop of Canterbury
1533, 25 January	Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn at Whitehall [1]
1533, March	Statute in Restraint of Appeals
1533, May	Cranmer declares Henry's marriage null and void
1533, 4 July	John Frith burned at the stake
1533, September	Princess Elizabeth born
1534	Henry begins negotiations with Paul III
1534, January to March	Act Concerning Ecclesiastical Appointments and Absolute Restraint of Annates, Act Concerning Peter's Pence and Dispensations, Act of Succession
1534, March	Clement VII pronounces marriage valid
1534, April	Elizabeth Barton ('Nun of Kent') executed
1534, November	Act of Supremacy, Treason Act, Act of First Fruits and Tenths
1535	Henry adds "of the Church of England in Earth, under Jesus Christ, Supreme Head" to his royal style. Henry proclaims himself, not the Pope, to be the head of the Church of England
1535	Bishop Gardiner's De Vera Obedientia published
1535	Cromwell appoints Hugh Latimer, Edward Foxe, Nicholas Shaxton to episcopacy
1535, May	Middlemore, Exmere, Newdigate locked up for seventeen days. Ten more starve
1535, 22 June	John Fisher executed
1535, 6 July	Thomas More executed
1536	Ten Articles; Act Extinguishing the Authority of the Bishop of Rome; Campeggio visits England
1536, January	Anne miscarries again
1536, March	First Act of Dissolution
19 May 1536	Anne Boleyn is executed
1536, April	'Reformation parliament' dissolved
1536, 1 October	Pilgrimage of Grace, Phase One
1536, 4 October	Pilgrimage of Grace led by 18 members of the gentry
1536, 13 October	York taken by 10,000 'pilgrims'
1536, 8 December	Duke of Norfolk offers pardon to rebels
1537	Bishops' Book, John Rogers produces the Matthew Bible
1537, January	Bigod's Rebellion, a further phase of the Pilgrimage of Grace, led by Sir Francis Bigod
1538	'Exeter Conspiracy'
1539	Second Act of Dissolution; Henry VIII intervenes to halt the doctrinal reformation
1540, 6 January	Henry marries Anne of Cleves
1540, 9 July	Henry's marriage to Anne of Cleves is annulled
1540, 28 July	Thomas Cromwell is beheaded
1540, 30 July	Robert Barnes is burned at the stake
1540, 30 July	Thomas Abel is hanged, drawn and quartered.
1543	Cranmer is arrested on grounds of heresy, The King's Book is published
1544	Bishop Gardiner is targeted
1546	'Creeping to the Cross' added to the list of forbidden practises
1547, 28 January	Henry VIII dies
1547	The First Book of Homilies introduced by Thomas Cranmer
1549	The First Book of Common Prayer is introduced by Thomas Cranmer, accompanied by the Act of Uniformity 1549 which makes it the only lawful form of worship
1549	Putting away of Books and Images Act orders the removal of religious books and the destruction of images in churches
1549, June-August	The Prayer Book Rebellion in the West Country against the imposition of the new liturgy, especially amongst Cornish speakers who knew no English
1552	The Second Book of Common Prayer is introduced by Thomas Cranmer, the use of which is enforced by the Act of Uniformity 1552
1554, 12 February	Lady Jane Grey is executed
1554, 30 November	Restoration of Roman Catholicism by Queen Mary I
1554, November	Revival of the Heresy Acts restored the death penalty for those that denied the principles of Catholicism.	More than 300 people would be executed during Mary's reign, mostly by burning at the stake.
1555, 16 October	Former bishops Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley were burned at the stake in Oxford.
1556, 21 March	Thomas Cranmer burned at the stake in Oxford.
1558	Elizabeth I crowned queen
1558-59	Elizabethan Religious Settlement, a compromise which secured Protestant reforms but allowed some Catholic traditions to continue.
1558	Act of Supremacy 1558 confirmed Elizabeth as Head of the Church of England and abolished the authority of the Pope in England.	Final break with the Roman Church
1558	Act of Uniformity 1558 required attendances at services where a newly revised Book of Common Prayer was used.
1570, 27 April	Regnans in Excelsis a papal bull declaring Elizabeth a heretic and threatening those who obeyed her laws with excommunication.
1587, 8 February	Mary, Queen of Scots is executed
1588, 8 August	The Spanish Armada is defeated by the English fleet, aided by high winds
1597	Irish Rebellion led by Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone
1603, 11 July	James VI of Scotland crowned King of England
1605	Gunpowder Plot foiled, Guy Fawkes is executed(1606)
1609	Plantation of Ulster
1611	King James Bible first published and used throughout the English speaking world.
1625, 27 March	Charles I crowned King of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
1642	English Civil War breaks out	Issues largely centered on the Church of England's being seen as too Catholic
1649, 30 January	Triumph of the Puritans, execution of King Charles I
1660	Restoration of King Charles II
1688	The Glorious Revolution

External links

• Timeline of the English Reformation and Development of the Anglican Church.