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Henry VIII

King of England from 1509 to 1547 (1491–1547)

118 dated entries naming Henry VIII, drawn from 50 separate years between 1479 CE and 1982 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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15th century

  • 1479August 14 – Catherine of York, English princess, aunt of Henry VIII (died 1527)source
  • 1485December 16 – Catherine of Aragon, first queen of Henry VIII of England, and daughter of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile (died 1536)source
  • 1491June 28 – Henry VIII, king of England (died 1547)source
  • 1491June 28 – Henry VIII, King of Ireland (died 1547)source
  • 1499May 19 – Catherine of Aragon, the future first wife of Henry VIII, is married by proxy to his brother, Arthur, Prince of Wales.source

16th century

  • 1501Anne Boleyn, second queen of Henry VIII of England (born this year or 1507; d. 1536)source
  • 1501January 16 – Anthony Denny, confidant of Henry VIII of England (died 1559)source
  • 1501October 2 – Spanish princess Catherine of Aragon arrives in England and arrives at Plymouth. Although she will later become the wife of King Henry VIII in 1509, she initially arrives to marry Henry's older brother, Arthur, Prince of Wales.source
  • 1502April 2 – Arthur, Prince of Wales, the 15-year-old Duke of Cornwall and Earl of Chester, heir to the English throne as eldest son of King Henry VII, dies after a long illness less than five months after marrying Catherine of Aragon. Arthur's 10-year-old brother, Henry, Duke of York, becomes the new heir to the throne and will later succeed his father as King Henry VIII.source
  • 1503June 23 – Representatives of King Henry VII of England and Queen Isabella of Spain sign a treaty for 12-year-old Henry, Prince of Wales to be married to Catherine of Aragon, widow of King Henry's son Arthur.source
  • 150418 February – Henry Tudor created Prince of Wales following the death of his elder brother Arthur, Prince of Wales two years earliersource
  • 1504February 18 – The investiture of Prince Henry of England as Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester takes place.source
  • 1505June 27 – The future King Henry VIII repudiates his engagement to Catherine of Aragon, at his father's command.source
  • 1506February 9 – Henry, Prince of Wales is made a Knight of the Golden Fleece by Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor.source
  • 1507Anne Boleyn, second queen of Henry VIII (born this year or 1501; d. 1536)source
  • 1508Jane Seymour, third queen of Henry VIII (died 1537)source
  • 1508September 11 – England is left without a Roman Catholic Cardinal protector when Cardinal Galeotto Franciotti della Rovere dies suddenly. England's King Henry VII dies seven months later before the monarchy and the Pope can agree on a new cardinal protector. The King's successor, Henry VIII, later abolishes the office entirely after Lorenzo Campeggio dies in the course of the English Reformation and the creation of the Church of England.source
  • 1509April 21 – Henry VIII becomes King of England on the death of his father, Henry VII.source
  • 1509June 11 – Henry VIII marries Catherine of Aragon.source
  • 1509June 24 – King Henry VIII and Queen Consort Catherine of Aragon are crowned.source
  • 1510January 23 – An 18-year-old Henry VIII jousts anonymously at Richmond, Surrey and draws applause, before revealing his identity.source
  • 1511February 12 – King Henry VIII of England opens the two-day Westminster Tournament to celebrate the birth (on January 1) of his son Prince Henry. Sadly, the infant prince dies on February 22, nine days after the tournament's end. The festivities are later memorialized in the 1511 Westminster Tournament Roll, a series of 36 separately painted pictures stitched together to form a roll almost 60 ft long and 143/4 inches (37.5 cm) wide.source
  • 1511February 22 – Henry, Duke of Cornwall, eldest son of Henry VIII of Englandsource
  • 1511July 29 – Henry VIII of England's flagship, the Mary Rose, is launched from Portsmouth.source
  • 1511November 17 – The Treaty of Westminster creates an alliance between Henry VIII of England and Ferdinand II of Aragon against France. Mallett and Shaw, The Italian Wars, 103; Hutchinson, Young Henry, 159.source
  • 1513August 16 – Battle of the Spurs (or Battle of Guinegate, part of the War of the League of Cambrai): English and allied troops under Henry VIII defeat French cavalry under Marshal La Palice.source
  • 151316 August -Henry VIII of England defeated the French at the Battle of the Spurs.source
  • 1513August 23 – Thérouanne in the north of France is given to Henry VIII of England after a treaty is concluded in the aftermath of the Battle of the Spurs.source
  • 1514August 7 – King Henry VIII of England concludes an independent peace treaty with France in the War of the League of Cambrai, negotiated by Thomas Wolsey.source
  • 1514August 13 – Mary Tudor, sister of King Henry VIII, is married by proxy to France's King Louis XII in accordance with the August 7 peace treaty.source
  • 1514October 9 – King Louis XII marries Mary Tudor (sister of King Henry VIII) at Abbeville, as part of the Kingdom of England's peace with France.source
  • 15149 October – Louis XII marries Mary Tudor (sister of King Henry VIII) at Abbeville, as part of the English peace with France.source
  • 1515Cardinal Thomas Wolsey orders construction to begin on what is to become Henry VIII's future summer residence Hampton Court Palace.source
  • 1515February 8 – King Henry VIII of England opens the English Parliament. Henry's chief advisor, Sir Thomas Nevill, is elected Speaker of the House of Commonssource
  • 1515September 22 – Anne of Cleves, Fourth Queen of Henry VIII (died 1557)source
  • 1515December 22 – The 3rd English Parliament of King Henry VIII closes with the King giving royal assent to the Avowries Act, the Kynges Revenues Act, the "Acte for the Staple of Calice" and "the Act avoiding pulling down of Towns".source
  • 1516The predecessor of the Royal Mail, known as the Master of the Posts, is established by Henry VIII of England.source
  • 1516February 18 – Queen Mary I of England, daughter of King Henry VIII and Queen Catherine of Aragon (died 1558)source
  • 1516February 25 – In his capacity as Lord of Ireland, Henry VIII opens the first of six assemblies of parliament during his reign of the Parliament of Ireland at Dublin. The parliament holds three sessions, ending on October 2, when it is dismissed.source
  • 1518possible – Catherine Howard, fifth queen consort of Henry VIII of England (born between 1518 and 1524; d. 1542)source
  • 1518January 27 – Sir John Ernley is selected as the new Chief Justice of the Common Pleas of England by King King Henry VIII to replace the late Robert Rede, who died on January 8. Emley. He is replaced as Attorney General for England and Wales by John FitzJames.source
  • 1519Catherine Howard, fifth Queen of Henry VIII of England (born between 1518 and 1524; d. 1542)source
  • 1519June 15 – Henry FitzRoy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset, illegitimate son of King Henry VIII of England (died 1536)source
  • 1520June 7 – King Henry VIII of England and King Francis I of France meet at the famous Field of the Cloth of Gold.source
  • 1521Catherine Howard, fifth queen of Henry VIII of England, (born between 1518 and 1524; d. 1542)source
  • 1521George Cromer (died 1543) was appointed (Church of Ireland) Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland under Henry VIII.source
  • 1522Catherine Howard, fifth queen of Henry VIII of England, (born between 1518 and 1524; d. 1542)source
  • 1522June 19 – Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor visits King Henry VIII of England, and signs the Treaty of Windsor, pledging a joint invasion of France, bringing England into the Italian War of 1521–1526.source
  • 1523possible – Catherine Howard, fifth queen of Henry VIII of England, (born between 1518 and 1524; executed 1542)source
  • 1524Catherine Howard, fifth queen of Henry VIII of England, (born between 1518 and 1524; d. 1542)source
  • 1525June 18 – Henry VIII of England appoints his six-year-old illegitimate son Henry FitzRoy Duke of Richmond and Somerset.source
  • 1525August 30 – Treaty of the More was signed between Henry VIII of England and queen regent Louise of Savoy restoring relation between France and England.source
  • 1527James Butler, 9th earl of Ormond, becomes Esquire of the Body to King Henry VIII.source
  • 1529Aylesbury is granted the county town of Buckinghamshire, England by King Henry VIII.source
  • 1529January 28 – Peter Vannes, the Italian-born envoy for England's King Henry VIII, arrives in Rome on a mission to get Pope Clement VII to give a dispensation for King Henry to divorce one wife and marry another, with both marriages to be declared valid. The mission fails.source
  • 1529May 31–July – Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, Archbishop of York, opens a legatine court at Blackfriars, London, to rule on the legality of King Henry VIII of England's marriage to Catherine of Aragon. The court lasts until July 16.source
  • 1529August 5 – Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and Francis I of France sign the Treaty of Cambrai, or Ladies' Peace in the War of the League of Cognac: Francis abandons his claims in Italy, but is allowed to retain the Duchy of Burgundy. Henry VIII of England accedes on August 27.source
  • 1532Henry VIII of England grants the Thorne brothers a Royal Charter to found Bristol Grammar School.source
  • 1532March 18 – The Supplication against the Ordinaries is presented to Henry VIII by Thomas More the Speaker of the House of Commons. Henry responds by stating that the Commons could hardly expect such consideration after they refused to assent to the government's proposals. Shortly afterwards, Parliament is prorogued until April 10.source
  • 1532September 1 – Anne Boleyn is created Marquess of Pembroke by her fiancé, King Henry VIII of England.source
  • 1532October 21 – King Francis I meets with Henry VIII of England for the first time in 12 years at Saint-Inglevert, where they agreed to form an alliance against their common enemies.source
  • 1533January 25 – King Henry VIII of England formally but secretly marries Anne Boleyn, who becomes his second queen consort.source
  • 1533September 7 – Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII of England gives birth to a daughter, at Greenwich, a little more than three months after she and Henry were married. The King's second daughter, Elizabeth, will become the reigning monarch of England 25 years later and rule for more than 44 years.source
  • 1533September 7 – Queen Elizabeth I of England, daughter of King Henry VIII (died 1603)source
  • 1534January 15 – The Parliament of England passes the Act Respecting the Oath to the Succession, recognising the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, and their children as the legitimate heirs to the throne.source
  • 1534June – Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare (Silken Thomas) revolts. He had heard rumours that his father had been executed in the Tower of London and, as a result, publicly renounces his allegiance to King Henry VIII.source
  • 1534July 20 – Cambridge University Press is given a Royal Charter by Henry VIII of England, and becomes the first of the privileged presses.source
  • 1534November 3– The English Reformation Parliament passes the Act of Supremacy, establishing Henry VIII as supreme head of the Church of England.source
  • 1535June 22 – Cardinal John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, is executed for his refusal to swear an oath of loyalty to King Henry VIII of England.source
  • 1535July 6 – Sir Thomas More, author of Utopia and one time Lord Chancellor of England, is executed for treason, after refusing to recognize King Henry VIII as head of the English Church, and separate from the Roman Catholic Church.source
  • 1535July 15 – Archdeacon Charles Reynolds (cleric), envoy to James V, Charles V, and Pope Paul III, is buried in Rome. He died of malaria while lobbying for the excommunication of King Henry VIII for heresy.source
  • 1536January 7 – Catherine of Aragon, First Queen of Henry VIII of England (born 1485)source
  • 1536January 24 – King Henry VIII of England is seriously injured when he falls from his horse at a jousting tournament in Greenwich, after which the fully armored horse falls on him. The King is unconscious for two hours, sustaining an injury to an ulcerated leg and a concussion.source
  • 1536May 2 – Anne Boleyn, second queen of Henry VIII of England, is arrested on the grounds of incest, adultery, and treason.source
  • 1536May 14 – Thomas Cranmer declares Henry VIII's marriage to Anne Boleyn to be null and void.source
  • 1536May 19 – Anne Boleyn, second queen of Henry VIII of England (executed) (born c. 1501/1507)source
  • 1536May 30 – Henry VIII of England marries Jane Seymour.source
  • 1536July 23 – Henry FitzRoy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset, illegitimate son of Henry VIII of England (born 1519)source
  • 1536December 5 – After two months, the Pilgrimage of Grace ends at Pontefract Castle after Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk promises to present a list of 24 Articles of the pilgrims' demands, "The Commons' Petition", to King Henry VIII. The duke pledges a reprieve for abbeys from dissolution until Parliament can meet, and to obtain a general pardon for the rebel pilgrims.source
  • 1537Dissolution of the monasteries in England: Religious organizations dissolved by Henry VIII of England include: Bisham Priory, Castle Acre Priory, Chertsey Abbey, Furness Abbey, London Charterhouse and Valle Crucis Abbey.source
  • 1537January 16 – Bigod's Rebellion, an uprising by Roman Catholics, led by Francis Bigod against Henry VIII of England and Protestant Rebellion, begins with an unsuccessful attempt to seize Scarborough Castle in Yorkshire.source
  • 1537October 24 – Jane Seymour, 3rd queen consort of Henry VIII of England (complications of childbirth) (born c. 1508)source
  • 1538May 27 – A joint delegation of Lutherans from various German cities arrives in England for meetings with King Henry VIII; Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury; and Thomas Cromwell, the former Chief Minister of England.source
  • 1538December 17 – Pope Paul III confirms the excommunication of Henry VIII of England from the Roman Catholic church.source
  • 1539January 12 – Treaty of Toledo: Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (aka Charles I of Spain) and Francis I of France agree to make no further alliances with England. The treaty comes after Henry VIII of England's split with Rome and Pope Paul III.source
  • 1539March 1 – King Henry VIII of England summons Parliament to meet, with the session to start on April 28.source
  • 1539June 28 – The Six Articles, an Act of the Parliament of England, is given royal assent reaffirms certain Catholic principles in Henry VIII's Church of England.source
  • 1539October 4 – Henry VIII contracts to marry Anne of Cleves.source
  • 1540January 6 – King Henry VIII marries Anne of Cleves, his fourth Queen consort; the marriage lasts six months.source
  • 1540July 9 – English King Henry VIII's marriage to Anne of Cleves, his fourth Queen consort, is annulled.source
  • 1540July 28 – Thomas Cromwell, is executed for treason publicly in London on the orders of king Henry VIII of England. Henry marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day.source
  • 1541June 18 – by the Crown of Ireland Act, the Parliament of Ireland, meeting in Dublin, declares King Henry VIII of England and his heirs to be Kings of Ireland, replacing the Lordship of Ireland with the Kingdom of Ireland.source
  • 1541November 1 – King Henry VIII of England is first informed of that the Queen consort, Catherine Howard, has been having an affair with Thomas Culpeper.source
  • 1542January 16 – The 8th Parliament of Henry VIII assembles at Westminster after having been summoned on November 23.source
  • 1542February 13 – Catherine Howard, fifth queen of Henry VIII of England (executed) (born c. 1522)source
  • 154215 February – 7/10 March: the Parliament of Ireland meets in Limerick and re-enacts the Crown of Ireland Act, declaring King Henry VIII of England and his heirs to be Kings of Ireland, for the benefit of Munster and Connacht.source
  • 1542June 18 – The Parliament of Ireland passes the Crown of Ireland Act, which dissolves the title of Lord of Ireland and reestablishes it to the Kingdom of Ireland, with its last Lord, Henry VIII of England, becoming its first king.source
  • 1543February 11 – King Henry VIII of England allies with Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, against France.source
  • 1543April 19 – George Dowdall is nominated as Archbishop of Armagh (Church of Ireland) by King Henry VIII of England following the death of George Cromer; he is consecrated in December.source
  • 1543July 1 – The Treaty of Greenwich is signed between representatives of the Kingdoms of England and Scotland as part of a plan to eventually unify the two nations under one monarch. As part of the treaty, the two nations agree to avoid war during the reign of King Henry VIII in England or Mary, Queen of Scots in Scotland and for another year after both are gone. The second part of the Treaty provides that Mary, Queen of Scots (six months old at the time) will eventually become the wife of Crown Prince Edward (then 5 years old), son of King Henry VIII. The Scottish Parliament repudiates the treaty five months later.source
  • 1543July 12 – King Henry VIII of England marries Catherine Parr. It is Henry's sixth and last marriage and Catherine's third. Princess Elizabeth attends the wedding. This month, the Parliament of England passes the Third Succession Act, restoring the Princesses Mary and Elizabeth, Henry's daughters, to the line of succession to the English throne.source
  • 1543July 19 – Mary Boleyn, English courtier, mistress of Kings Francis I of France and Henry VIII of England (born 1500)source
  • 1543December 31 – King Henry VIII of England signs an agreement with Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor to invade France by June 20, 1544 with at least 35,000 infantry and 7,000 cavalry.source
  • 1544July 19– Italian War of 1542–46: King Henry VIII of England begins the siege of the city of Boulogne in northern France and continues for almost two months before the city surrenders.source
  • 1545July 18–19 – Battle of the Solent between English and French fleets. The engagement is inconclusive but on July 19 Henry VIII of England's flagship, the Mary Rose, sinks.source
  • 1546May 30 – Cornelius O'Dea is nominated by Henry VIII as first Church of Ireland Bishop of Killaloe (consecrated 12 July).source
  • 1546November 4 – Christ Church, Oxford, is refounded as a college by Henry VIII of England under this name.source
  • 1547January 28 – Edward VI becomes King of England and Ireland upon the death of Henry VIII; start of Edwardian Reformation in Ireland (lasting until 1553).source
  • 1547January 28 – King Henry VIII of England dies in London, and is succeeded by his 9-year-old son Edward VI, as King of England.source
  • 1547January 28 – King Henry VIII of England (born 1491)source
  • 1547January 28 – Henry VIII, King of Ireland (born 1491)source
  • 1547April 4 – Catherine Parr, widow of King Henry VIII of England, secretly marries Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley.source
  • 1547November 5 – Catherine Parr, the former Queen consort of England and widow of King Henry VIII, publishes her book The Lamentation of a Sinner.source
  • 1548September 5 – Catherine Parr, sixth and last Queen of Henry VIII of England (born c. 1512)source
  • 1549September 10 – Anthony Denny, confidant of Henry VIII of England (born 1501)source
  • 1557July 16 – Anne of Cleves, fourth queen of Henry VIII of England (born 1515)source
  • 1558November 6 – On her deathbed, Queen Mary of England designates her half-sister, Elizabeth, as her successor. Both Mary and Elizabeth are daughters of the late King Henry VIII.source

20th century

  • 1982October 11 – The Mary Rose, flagship of Henry VIII of England that sank in 1545, is raised from the Solent.source

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