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Date |
Event(s) |
| 1 | 1499 | - 16 Nov 1499: Perkin Warbeck, pretender to the throne, executed
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| 2 | 1502 | - 1502: Montezuma II becomes Aztec emperor
- 1502: Italian Politics
Machiavelli and the Borgas
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| 3 | 1503 | - 1503: Leonardo da Vinci paints Mona Lisa (-1505)
- 28 May 1503: Marriage of King James IV of Scots and Margaret Tudor
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| 4 | 1505 | - 1505: Royal College of Surgeons founded in Edinburgh
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| 5 | 1506 | - 22 Jan 1506: First contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrives at the Vatican
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| 6 | 1507 | - 1507: First printing press in Scotland set up in Edinburgh by Andrew Myllar
- Apr 1507: Suggestion put forward that the New World be named America in honour of
Amerigo Vespucci (on Martin Waldseem
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| 7 | 1509 | - 1509: Naturalisation papers start in England
- 22 Apr 1509: Henry VIII becomes king of England (to 1547) at 17 years old
- 11 Jun 1509: Henry VIII marries Catherine of Aragon
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| 8 | 1512 | - 1512: The "Auld Alliance" treaty with France
- 1512: Admiralty founded in London
- Nov 1512: Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, exhibited to the public for
the first time
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| 9 | 1513 | - 16 Aug 1513: Battle of the Spurs
- 9 Sep 1513: Battle of Flodden, defeat of Scottish Army
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| 10 | 1514 | - 1514: Recording of Testaments (wills) begins in Scotland
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| 11 | 1515 | - 15 Nov 1515: Thomas Wolsley invested as Cardinal
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| 12 | 1516 | - 1516: Thomas More writes "Utopia"
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| 13 | 1517 | - 31 Oct 1517: Martin Luther fixes his 95 theses on church door at Wittenburg
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| 14 | 1518 | - 1518: Treaty of London, a non-aggression pact between the major European nations: France,
England, Holy Roman Empire, the Papacy, Spain, Burgundy and the Netherlands
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| 15 | 1519 | |
| 16 | 1520 | - Nov 1520: Three ships under the command of Ferdinand Magellan negotiate the Strait of
Magellan, becoming the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific
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| 17 | 1521 | - 17 Apr 1521: Martin Luther speaks to the assembly at the Diet of Worms, refusing to recant
his teachings
- 17 May 1521: Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, executed for treason
- 25 May 1521: Diet of Worms ends when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor issues the Edict of
Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw
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| 18 | 1522 | - 6 Sep 1522: The Victoria, one of the surviving ships of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition,
becomes the first ship known to circumnavigate the world
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| 19 | 1525 | - 1525: New Testament translated into English by William Tyndale
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| 20 | 1527 | - 1527: Bishop Vesey's Grammar School founded in Sutton Coldfield
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| 21 | 1528 | - 1528: St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle completed
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| 22 | 1531 | |
| 23 | 1532 | - 1532: Foundation of the Court of Session in Scotland
- 1532: Peru
Battle of Cajamarca Cajamarca
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| 24 | 1533 | - 25 Jan 1533: Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn secretly, wife #2 (she was crowned as Queen
on 1st June)
- 30 Mar 1533: Thomas Cranmer becomes Archbishop of Canterbury
- 23 May 1533: Henry VIII's marriage with Catherine of Aragon officially declared annulled
- 11 Jul 1533: Henry VIII excommunicated by Pope Clement VII
- 17 Sep 1533: Anne Boleyn gives birth to a daughter Elizabeth, to become Queen Elizabeth I
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| 25 | 1534 | - 1534: Reformation of the Catholic Church in England church (Henry VIII)
- 1534: England splits from Roman Catholic Church; Henry VIII confiscates church property and establishes Church of England
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| 26 | 1535 | - 1535: Sir Thomas More executed
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| 27 | 1536 | - 1536: Wales and England legally united by the Laws in Wales Act of 1535
- 1536: Dissolution of monasteries starts in England (to 1540)
- 19 May 1536: Anne Boleyn executed
- 30 May 1536: Henry VIII marries Jane Seymour, wife #3 (she was crowned as Queen on 29th
October)
- 18 Jul 1536: The authority of the Pope is declared void in England
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| 28 | 1537 | - 24 Oct 1537: Jane Seymour dies from complications in giving birth to a son, the future
Edward VI
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| 29 | 1538 | - 1538: Henry VIII issues English Bible
- 1538: English and Welsh parish registers start
- 17 Dec 1538: Henry VIII excommunicated by Pope Paul III
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| 30 | 1540 | - 1540: Statute of Wills allows freehold land to be bequeathed
- 6 Jan 1540: Henry VIII marries Anne of Cleves, the 'Flanders Mare', wife #4
- 9 Feb 1540: First recorded horse racing event in Britain, at Chester
- 9 Jul 1540: Henry VIII divorces Anne of Cleves
- 28 Jul 1540: Thomas Cromwell executed; Henry VIII marries Catherine Howard the same day,
wife #5
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| 31 | 1541 | - 1541: Henry VIII proclaimed king (rather than feudal lord) of Ireland
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| 32 | 1542 | - 13 Feb 1542: Catherine Howard executed
- 14 Dec 1542: Death of King James V of Scots; his baby daughter Mary "Queen of Scots"
succeeds him, just 6 days old
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| 33 | 1543 | - 1543: Copernicus publishes heliocentric theory and dies shortly thereafter
- 12 Jul 1543: Henry VIII marries Catherine Parr, wife #6, who survives him
- 9 Sep 1543: Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is officially crowned "Queen of Scots" in
Stirling (spelling of the royal house changes from Stewart to Stuart)
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| 34 | 1544 | - 1544: Henry's VIII's "Rough Wooing" of the Scottish Borders
- 1544: Mary of Guise, Regent of Scotland
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| 35 | 1545 | - 20 Jul 1545: Mary Rose, flagship of Henry VIII, sinks in the Solent
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| 36 | 1546 | - 1546: Trinity College, Cambridge founded by Henry VIII
- 1546: Smalkaldic War
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| 37 | 1547 | - 1547: Ivan the Terrible takes title 'Tsar of all the Russias'
- 1547: Vagrants Act passed (able-bodied tramps can be detained as slaves)
- 1547: English replaced Latin in church services in England and Wales
- 28 Jan 1547: Death of Henry VIII (succeeded by Edward VI, aged 9, to 1553)
- 20 Feb 1547: Coronation of Edward VI in Westminster Abbey
- 10 Sep 1547: Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, said to be the first 'modern' battle to be fought in the
British Isles
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| 38 | 1548 | - 1548: Priests in England allowed to marry (about a third then did so)
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| 39 | 1549 | - 1549: English Parliament declares enclosures legal
- 1549: First Act of Uniformity in England made Catholic Mass illegal
- 1549: Wedding ring finger changed from right to left hand
- 1549: Christianity reaches Japan
- 9 Jun 1549: First Book of Common Prayer sanctioned by English Parliament
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| 40 | 1550 | - 1550: Walloon Protestants arrive as refugees from the Low Countries
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| 41 | 1551 | - 1551: Scotland: General Provincial Council orders each parish to keep a register of baptisms
and banns of marriage
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| 42 | 1552 | - Mar 1552: An 'Act of Uniformity' imposes the Protestant prayerbook of 1552 in England
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| 43 | 1553 | - 6 Jul 1553: Edward VI dies; Lady Jane Grey queen for a few days only
- 19 Jul 1553: Mary Tudor ('Bloody Mary') comes to the throne
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| 44 | 1554 | - 1554: Brief Catholic restoration under Queen Mary Tudor
- 12 Feb 1554: Lady Jane Grey beheaded
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| 45 | 1556 | - 21 Mar 1556: Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer burned at the stake in Oxford
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| 46 | 1558 | - 1558: System of Counties adopted
- 1558: Scottish parish registers start
- 7 Jan 1558: French take Calais, last English possession in France
- 24 Apr 1558: Marriage of Mary, Queen of Scots to Fran
- 17 Nov 1558: Queen Mary Tudor of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister
Elizabeth
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| 47 | 1559 | - 1559: Tobacco introduced to Europe
- 1559: John Knox returns from Continent
- 15 Jan 1559: Elizabeth crowned in Westminster Abbey by Owen Oglethorpe, the Bishop of
Carlisle
- 29 Apr 1559: Acts of Supremacy passed in Parliament, ending papal jurisdiction over England
& Wales; established Church of England
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| 48 | 1560 | - 1560: Establishment of Protestantism in Scotland
- 27 Feb 1560: Treaty of Berwick between Duc du Chatelherault (as governor of Scotland) and
the English, agreeing to act jointly to expel the French from Scotland
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| 49 | 1561 | - 1561: Spire of St Paul's, highest in England, destroyed by fire
- 1561: The first coins produced by machinery (known as a 'mill') rather than by hand, but it
was a slow process and did not replace hand struck coinage until new machinery was
introduced in 1663
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| 50 | 1562 | - 1562: Earliest English slave-trading expedition, under John Hawkins
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| 51 | 1563 | - 28 Jul 1563: The English surrender Le Havre to the French after a siege
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| 52 | 1564 | - 26 Apr 1564: Shakespeare baptised
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| 53 | 1565 | - 29 Jul 1565: Marriage of Mary, Queen of Scots to Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, her first
cousin
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| 54 | 1566 | - 9 Mar 1566: Murder of David Riccio (or Rizzio) in Holyrood House
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| 55 | 1567 | - 10 Feb 1567: Murder of Darnley outside Holyrood House in an explosion
- 15 May 1567: Marriage of Mary Queen of Scots to James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell
- 24 Jul 1567: Mary Queen of Scots deposed and replaced by her 1 year old son James VI
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| 56 | 1568 | - 13 May 1568: Battle of Langside
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| 57 | 1569 | - 1569: Elizabeth I approved Sunday sports
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| 58 | 1570 | - 25 Feb 1570: Pope Pius V issued the papal bull 'Regnans in Excelsis' to excommunicate
Elizabeth I and her followers in the Church of England
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| 59 | 1571 | - 1571: Presbyterianism introduced into England by Thomas Cartwright
- 1571: Repeal of Act prohibiting lending of money on interest
- 1571: Beginning of penal legislation against Catholics in England
- 23 Jan 1571: Opening of the Royal Exchange in London, founded by Sir Thomas Gresham
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| 60 | 1576 | |
| 61 | 1577 | - 1577: James Burbage opens first theatre in London
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| 62 | 1579 | - 1579: Act of Uniformity in matters of religion enforced
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| 63 | 1580 | - 1580: Congregational movement founded by Robert Browne about this time
- 1580: Colonisation of Ireland
- 6 Apr 1580: Dover Straits earthquake, largest in the recorded history of England, mentioned
by Shakespeare
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| 64 | 1581 | - 1581: English Levant Company founded
- 16 Jan 1581: English Parliament outlaws Roman Catholicism
- 4 Apr 1581: Francis Drake knighted by Elizabeth I aboard the Golden Hind after
circumnavigating the world
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| 65 | 1583 | - 1583: University of Edinburgh founded
- 1583: Foundation of Cambridge University Press by Thomas Thomas
- Aug 1583: Sir Humphrey Gilbert attempts to establish English authority at St John's,
Newfoundland
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| 66 | 1584 | - 4 Jun 1584: Sir Walter Raleigh establishes first English colony in the New World, on
Roanoke Island, Virginia (now in North Carolina)
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| 67 | 1585 | - 1585: Foundation of Oxford University Press
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| 68 | 1587 | - 1587: Introduction of potatoes to England
- 8 Feb 1587: Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, at Fotheringay Castle, near Peterborough
- 19 Apr 1587: Sir Francis Drake sinks the Spanish fleet in Cadiz harbour
- 11 Aug 1587: Raleigh's second expedition to New World lands in North Carolina
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| 69 | 1588 | - 1588: Invention of shorthand by Dr Timothy Bright
- 19 Jul 1588: Spanish Armada sighted off the Lizard (had set sail from Lisbon in late May)
- 29 Jul 1588: Defeat of Spanish Armada off Gravelines
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| 70 | 1591 | - 1591: Trinity College, Dublin, founded
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| 71 | 1592 | - 1592: A Congregational (or Independent) Church formed in London
- 1592: Scotland: Presbyterian Church formally established
- 1592—1596: Seneca nation plague
Seneca nation - Desease Measles
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| 72 | 1593 | - 1593: British statute mile established by law
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| 73 | 1594 | - 1594: Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, leads Irish rebellion against English rule (-1603)
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| 74 | 1596 | - 1596—1692: Spain - Plague
Spain Plague
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| 75 | 1597 | - 1597: Poor Law Act for erection of parish workhouses for the Poor
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| 76 | 1598 | - 1598: Bishop's transcripts of English and Welsh parish registers start
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| 77 | 1600 | - 1600—1650: South America - malaria
Desease Malaria
- 1 Jan 1600: Scotland adopts New Year beginning 1st January (previously 25th March)
- 31 Dec 1600: British East India Company founded
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