1485
22 August - Battle of Bosworth. Henry Tudor usurps the English throne as Henry VII and founds the Tudor dynasty.
16 December - Birth of Katherine of Aragon.
1486
19/20 September - Birth of Prince Arthur, eldest son of Henry VII.
1489
27 March - Treaty of Medina del Campo: Katherine and Arthur betrothed.
1491
28 June - Birth of Prince Henry, second son of Henry VII.
1499
19 May - Katherine and Arthur married by proxy.
c. 1500/1 - Birth of Anne Boleyn.
1501
19 May - Katherine and Arthur married for a second time by proxy.
27 September - Katherine arrives in England.
12 November - Katherine enters London in state.
14 November - Marriage of Katherine of Aragon and Arthur, Prince of Wales.
1502
2 April - Death of Prince Arthur.
1503
25 June - Katherine betrothed to Prince Henry.
1504
18 February - Prince Henry created Prince of Wales.
26 November - Death of Isabella of Castile.
1505
27 June - Prince Henry secretly repudiates his betrothal.
1507/8 - Birth of Jane Seymour.
1509
22 April - Death of Henry VII and accession of Henry VIII.
11 June - Marriage of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon.
23 June - Henry and Katherine enter London in state.
24 June - Coronation of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon.
1510
31 January - Birth of a stillborn daughter to Katherine of Aragon.
1511
1 January - Birth of Prince Henry, son of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon.
22 February - Death of Prince Henry.
c.1512 - Birth of Katherine Parr.
1513
30 June to 22 October - Katherine rules as regent while Henry VIII campaigns in France.
9 September - Battle of Flodden.
October - Birth of a son, who died soon after birth, to Katherine of Aragon.
1514
November - Birth of a son, who died soon after birth, to Katherine of Aragon.
1515
22 September - Birth of Anne of Cleves.
1516
January - Death of Ferdinand of Aragon.
18 February - Birth of the Princess Mary, daughter of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon.
1518
10 November - Birth of a daughter, who died soon after birth, to Katherine of Aragon.
1519
February - Death of the Holy Roman Emperor, Maximilian, followed by the election of Charles of Castile, Katherine of Aragon's nephew, in his stead.
June - Birth of Henry FitzRoy, bastard son of Henry VIII by Elizabeth Blount.
1520
3-23 June - The Field of Cloth of Gold, summit meeting between Henry VIII and Francis I of France.
1524
Katherine of Aragon known to be past the age for bearing children. Cessation of sexual relations between her and Henry VIII.
c.1525 - Birth of Katherine Howard.
1525
August - Princess Mary's household established at Ludlow.
1526
February - First indication that Henry VIII courting Anne Boleyn.
1527
6 May - Sack of Rome by the Emperor's troops.
17 May - Proceedings to annul Henry VIII's marriage to Katherine of Aragon instituted in an ecclesiastical court at Westminster.
22 June - Katherine informed by Henry of his doubts concerning the validity of their marriage.
September - Henry VIII asks the Pope to help him gain an annulment of his marriage.
1528
29 September - Cardinal Campeggio, sent by the Pope to try the King's case, arrives in England.
1529
31 May - The legatine court opens at Black Friars, London.
23 July - Campeggio adjourns the case indefinitely to Rome.
1530
November - Death of Cardinal Wolsey
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1531
11 February - The Reformation Parliament acknowledges Henry VIII as Supreme Head of the Church of England under Christ.
14 July - Henry separates from Katherine and she is banished from court.
1532
1 September - Anne Boleyn created Lady Marquess of Pembroke.
1533
25 January - Secret marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.
12 April - Anne Boleyn first appears in public as Queen of England.
23 May - Archbishop Cranmer declares the marriage of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon to be invalid and unlawful.
28 May - Archbishop Cranmer declares the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn to be good and valid.
31 May - Anne Boleyn enters London in state.
1 June - Coronation of Anne Boleyn.
7 September - Birth of the Princess Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.
1534
23 March - Parliament passes the Act of Succession vesting the succession in Anne Boleyn's children by the King.
23 March - Pope Clement VII pronounces the marriage of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon to be lawful and canonical.
c. July - Birth of a child, sex not known, either stillborn or dead soon after birth, to Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.
1535
22 June - Execution of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester.
late June - Birth of a stillborn child to Anne Boleyn.
6 July - Execution of Sir Thomas More.
November - First mention of Henry VIII's courtship of Jane Seymour.
1536
7 January - Death of Katherine of Aragon.
29 January - Birth of a stillborn son to Anne Boleyn.
2 May - Anne Boleyn arrested and taken to the Tower of London.
15 May - Trial of Anne Boleyn.
19 May - Execution of Anne Boleyn.
20 May - Henry VIII betrothed to Jane Seymour.
30 May - Marriage of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour.
7 June - Jane Seymour enters London in state.
June - Parliament passes the Act of Succession vesting the succession in Jane Seymour's children by the King.
13 June - Henry's daughter Mary offers him her submission.
September 1536 - March 1537 - Pilgrimage of Grace.
1537
12 October - Birth of Prince Edward, son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour.
24 October - Death of Jane Seymour.
1539
4 September - Henry VIII betrothed to Anne of Cleves.
27 December - Anne of Cleves arrives in England.
1540
6 January - Marriage of Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves.
4 February - Anne of Cleves enters London in state.
April - First mention of Henry VIII's courtship of Katherine Howard.
9 July - Henry VIII's marriage to Anne of Cleves annulled.
28 July - Execution of Thomas Cromwell.
Marriage of Henry VIII and Katherine Howard.
1541
1 November - Henry VIII informed by Archbishop Cranmer of Katherine Howard's misconduct.
1542
7 February - Parliament passes the Act of Attainder condemning Katherine Howard to death.
13 February - Execution of Katherine Howard.
1543
12 July - Marriage of Henry VIII and Katherine Parr.
1544
14 July - Katherine Parr rules as regent while Henry VIII campaigns in France.
1547
28 January - Death of Henry VIII; accession of Edward VI.
c.April - Marriage of Katherine Parr and Thomas Seymour.
1548
30 August - Birth of Mary, daughter of Katherine Parr and Thomas Seymour.
7 September - Death of Katherine Parr.
1553
6 July - Death of Edward VI.
10 July - Lady Jane Grey proclaimed Queen of England.
19 July - Queen Jane deposed; accession of Mary I, daughter of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon.
1557
16 July - Death of Anne of Cleves.
1558
17 November - Death of Mary I; accession of Elizabeth I, daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.