Key events Change and reaction graphic organiser 1535-1540

Wives in the period

1535
Cromwell sends out commissioners to survey monastery land and produces Valor Ecclesiasticus
2nd commission looks at spiritual standards of monks and nuns

1536
7 January 1536 - Catherine dies
Catherine of
Anne Boleyn Jane Seymour Anne of Cleves
Aragon
24 January 1536 - Henry is injured in a jousting accident - left with a head injury and severe

Key religious changes

leg pain for the rest of his life 1536 - Dissolution of lesser monasteries
29 January 1536 - Anne has 2nd miscarriage in a year - a boy July - Ten articles
March- Act for the Dissolution of the Lesser Monasteries (less than £200 a year) August - Cromwell's injunctions
24th April – A “commission set up, allegedly with the King’s approval, to investigate
1537 -Matthew bible
treason and other offences committed by a group of people, including Anne. 1538 - Becket's shrine destroyed
30th April – Mark Smeton is arrested for committing adultery with Queen Anne.
2nd injunctions
Smeton confesses after 24 hours of interrogation, and probably torture. 1539 - Great bible
15th May – Anne and her brother, George (Rochford), are tried. Both plead “not guilty”
Larger monasteires dissolved
but are found guilty.
six articles
19th May – Anne is beheaded on Tower Green by a French swordsman Foreign policy in period
30th May – Henry marries Jane Seymour
the Pope excommunicated Henry in 1538.
July - Ten articles published
1538 - truce between Charles V and Francis.
August - Cromwell's injunctions
Jan - 1540 - marriage of Henry and Anne of Clevesdue to

1 October 1536 – 10,000 people march on Lincoln from a rising that began in Louth. fear of a Catholci invasion
1537 Dominant factions
First official translation of bible in English published
1535-39/40
1538
Shrine to Thomas Becket is destroyed - part of campaign to destroy shrines and religious images in churches.
September - 2nd set of injunctions
The reformists
John Lambert burned for denying transubstantiation

1539 Thomas Cromwell Thomas Cranmer

Cranmer's Great Bible in English is published.
The larger monasteries are dissolved. The last is Waltham Abbey, Essex. 1539/40-1542
Henry Vill issues the Six Articles (traditional and Catholic). The Articles support: the doctrine of transubstantiation and

taking the Eucharist in the form of bread but not bread and wine; the idea that priests should not marry (celibacy).
Penalties for not accepting these Articles include death by burning as a heretic.
The conservatives
1540
6 January Marries Anne of Cleves Howard, Duke Stephen Henry Howard,
12 July marriage annulled Henry married Katherine Howard of Norfolk Gardiner Earl of Surrey
 Key events
Change and reaction graphic organiser 1540-47 Wives in the period
1540
January 6 - Henry MARRIES Anne OF CLEVES
July - The Cleves marriage was annulled and Henry married Catherine

Howard
Anne of Cleves Catherine Howard Catherine Parr
1541 Key religious changes
HENRY DECLARES HIMSELF KING OF IRELAND 1543 - kings book published
Act ending printing of English bible and limiting who could

1542
buy or read it to the wealthy
13 FEBRUARY 1542 - EXECUTION OF CATHERINE HOWARD
1545 - Kings Prymer - replaces catholic book of common prayer
NOVEMBER 1542 - VICTORY OVER SCOTS AT SOLWAY MOSS
1547 - chantries dissolved - but Henry died before it was enforced

1543
12 JULY 1543 - HENERY MARRIES CATHERINE PARR
PUBLICATION OF THE NECESSARY DOCTRINE AND ERUDITION OF A
Foreign policy in period
CHRISTIAN MAN', KNOWN AS THE KING'S BOOK. THIS SUPPORTED

TRADITIONAL CATHOLIC BELIEFS. 1541 - Henry declares himself King of Ireland

ACT PASSED BY PARLIAMENT ENDING THE PRINTING OF THE ENGLISH BIBLE.
1542 - Charles V and Francis I fight in Italin wars against each other
IT ALSO LIMITED THE USE OF THE BIBLE TO THE MORE WEALTHY IN SOCIETY. 1542 - battle of Solway Moss - victory over Scotland
PREBENDARIES PLOT AGAINST CRANMER 1544 - invasion of France and capture of Boulogne

1544-5 rough wooing of the Scots led by Edward Seymour
1544
1546 - Treaty of Ardres with France
MAY - ALL CHURCH SERVICES NOW IN ENGLISH.
Dominant factions
ENGLISH ARMY CAPTURES BOULOGNE

1539/40-1542
1545
'KING'S PRYMER', WRITTEN BY ARCHBISHOP CRANMER, REPLACES CATHOLIC

BOOK OF PRAYERS FOR USE IN CHURCH. The conservatives

JULY - ANNE ASKEW SCANDAL
CHANTRIES ACT SAYS CHANTRIES BELONG TO KING CHANTRIES, BUT 10
Howard, Duke Stephen Henry Howard,
of Norfolk Gardiner Earl of Surrey
CHANTRIES WERE DISSOLVED BETWEEN 1540 AND 1543 WHICH CHALLENGED

THE BELIEF IN PRAYERS FOR THE DEAD AND, ULTIMATELY, PURGATORY.

1542-1547
1546
JUNE - ANGLO-FRENCH TREATY OF ARDRES

The reformists
1547
CHANTRIES ACT ABOLISHES CHANTRIES, AND RELIGIOUS GUILDS Edward Catherine
Thomas Cranmer
EXCUTION OF THE EARL OF SURREY Seymour Parr