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22 August 1485
Battle of Bosworth
18 January 1486
Henry VII marries Elizabeth of York
24 May 1487
Lambert Simnel crowned
11 June 1488
Battle of Sauchieburn
1 December 1494
Poynings' Law
6 August 1497
John Cabot returns
5 October 1497
Perkin Warbeck captured
8 August 1503
Margaret Tudor marries James IV
21 April 1509
Henry VIII becomes king
30 June 1513
English land at Calais
9 September 1513
Battle of Flodden
24 December 1515
Cardinal Wolsey appointed lord chancellor
7 June 1520
Field of the Cloth of Gold
11 October 1521
Henry made 'Defender of the Faith'
18 October 1529
Fall of Wolsey
25 January 1533
Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn
17 April 1534
Fall of Thomas More
2 September 1534
Death of Kildare
17 November 1534
Act of Supremacy
18 March 1536
Dissolution of the monasteries
14 April 1536
Wales incorporated into England
19 May 1536
Anne Boleyn is beheaded
12 October 1537
Prince Edward born
28 July 1540
Thomas Cromwell beheaded
18 June 1541
Henry VIII proclaimed king of Ireland
13 February 1542
Catherine Howard beheaded
24 November 1542
Battle of Solway Moss
20 July 1545
Mary Rose
sinks
1 March 1546
George Wishart burnt at the stake
28 January 1547
Edward VI becomes king
10 September 1547
Battle of Pinkie
23 September 1548
The Book of Common Prayer
6 July 1553
Edward VI dies
10 July 1553
Lady Jane Grey proclaimed queen
3 August 1553
Mary I becomes queen
11 April 1554
Sir Thomas Wyatt beheaded
25 July 1554
Mary I marries Philip II
16 October 1555
Latimer and Ridley burnt at the stake
17 November 1558
Elizabeth I becomes queen
29 April 1559
Elizabethan religious settlement
22 February 1560
Treaty of Berwick
24 August 1560
Scottish Reformation
19 June 1566
Birth of James
24 July 1567
Abdication of Mary Queen of Scots
24 August 1572
St Bartholomew's Day massacre
4 April 1581
Francis Drake is knighted
1 December 1581
Edmund Campion executed
18 October 1585
Roanoke colony set up
22 September 1586
Sir Philip Sidney wounded at Zutphen
8 February 1587
Mary Queen of Scots beheaded
31 July 1588
Spanish Armada dispersed
6 February 1595
Sir Walter Ralegh sets sail
14 August 1598
Tyrone's rebellion
31 December 1600
East India Company set up
25 February 1601
Essex beheaded
17 December 1601
Elizabethan Poor Law
24 March 1603
Elizabeth dies
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