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1540s in England

December 15, 2023

Events from the 1540s in England.

1540s in England
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  1. ^ Powicke, F. Maurice; Fryde, E. B., eds. (1961). Handbook of British Chronology (2nd ed.). London: Butler & Tanner Ltd. p. 39.
  2. ^ a b c d Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 978-0-14-102715-9.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 147–150. ISBN 978-0-7126-5616-0.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 215–218. ISBN 978-0-304-35730-7.
  5. ^ "6 of the most catastrophic weather events in British history". HistoryExtra. Retrieved 2020-10-30.
  6. ^ Ballantyne, J. W. (October 1906). "The Byrth of Mankynde (Its Author and Editions)". The Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the British Empire. 10 (4): 297–325. doi:10.1111/j.1471-0528.1906.tb12722.x. PMC 5413625. PMID 29612085.
  7. ^ Moody, T. W.; et al., eds. (1989). A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-821744-2.
  8. ^ "Crown of Ireland Act 1542". Heraldica. 2003-07-25. Retrieved 2012-11-01.
  9. ^ Text of the Crown of Ireland Act (I) 1542 (c. 1) as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk.
  10. ^ As business park proprietors. . www.brookesmill.co.uk. Brookes Mill. Archived from the original on 2017-11-13. Retrieved 2020-08-16.
  11. ^ Ford, David Nash (2009). Berkshire in the Reign of Henry VIII. Wokingham: Nash Ford Publishing.
  12. ^ a b James, Susan E. (2004). "Katherine [Katherine Parr] (1512–1548)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 1 (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/4893. Retrieved 2012-01-31. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  13. ^ "History Timeline". Beverley Minster. Retrieved 2016-12-24.
  14. ^ Rosen, Adrienne (2010). "Tudor Rebellions". In Tiller, Kate; Darkes, Giles (eds.). An Historical Atlas of Oxfordshire. Chipping Norton: Oxfordshire Record Society. pp. 82–3. ISBN 978-0-902509-68-9.
  15. ^ . Lincoln Cathedral. Archived from the original on 2011-07-13. Retrieved 2010-10-21.
  16. ^ O'Day, Rosemary (26 July 2012). The Routledge Companion to the Tudor Age. Routledge. p. 1585. ISBN 978-1-136-96253-0.

December 15, 2023
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Events from the 1540s in England 1540s in EnglandOther decades1520s 1530s 1540s 1550s 1560s Contents 1 Incumbents 2 Events 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 ReferencesIncumbents editMonarch Henry VIII until 28 January 1547 then Edward VI Regent Catherine Queen Consort starting 15 July until 30 September 1544 1 Lord Protector Edward Seymour 1st Duke of Somerset starting 4 February 1547 until 11 October 1549 Parliament 7th of King Henry VIII until 24 July 1540 8th of King Henry VIII starting 16 January 1542 until 28 March 1544 9th of King Henry VIII starting 23 November 1545 until 31 January 1547 1st of King Edward VI starting 4 November 1547 Events edit1540 January Shap Abbey and Dunstable Priory are closed down as part of the Dissolution of the Monasteries 1 January King Henry VIII meets Anne of Cleves in person for the first time informally at Rochester 2 January Gloucester Abbey is surrendered to the Crown as part of the Dissolution of the Monasteries 6 January King Henry VIII marries Anne of Cleves his fourth Queen consort 2 14 January Southwark Priory in London is surrendered to the Crown as part of the Dissolution of the Monasteries 29 January Bolton Abbey a Yorkshire priory is closed down as part of the Dissolution of the Monasteries 16 February Thetford Priory is closed down as part of the Dissolution of the Monasteries 23 March Waltham Abbey is the last abbey to close as part of the Dissolution of the Monasteries 3 April the cathedral priories of Canterbury and Rochester are transformed into secular cathedral chapters concluding the Dissolution of the Monasteries 9 July Henry s marriage to Anne of Cleves is annulled 3 28 July Thomas Cromwell is executed on order from the king on charges of treason in public on Tower Hill London Henry marries his fifth wife Catherine Howard on the same day at Oatlands Palace 4 Summer Council of the West last sits 17 September Anglican Diocese of Westminster created Statute of Wills makes it possible to dispose of real estate by will Completion of the first of the Device Forts along the coast Calshot Deal Sandgate Sandown and Walmer Castles Big Sun Year Great heat and drought 5 Regius Professorships endowed at the University of Cambridge 3 Publication of The Byrth of Mankynde the first printed book in English on obstetrics and one of the first published in England to include engraved plates 6 1541 18 June by the Crown of Ireland Act the Parliament of Ireland declares King Henry VIII of England and his heirs to be Kings of Ireland replacing the Lordship of Ireland with the Kingdom of Ireland 7 8 9 Early summer Collyer s School opens to scholars in Horsham 14 August Anglican Diocese of Chester created 3 September the Anglican Diocese of Gloucester is created from part of the Diocese of Worcester with John Wakeman last Abbot of Tewkesbury as first Bishop of Gloucester Anglican Diocese of Peterborough formed Unlawful Games Act prohibits Several new devised Games as part of the promotion of archery Berkhamsted School founded by John Incent Dean of St Paul s The King s School Canterbury King s School Chester The King s School Ely Now known as King s Ely King s School Gloucester The King s The Cathedral School Peterborough King s School Rochester and King s School Worcester are established or re endowed by Henry VIII Portland Castle completed on the Isle of Portland John Brooke and Sons established at Armitage Bridge in West Yorkshire as textile manufacturers the business will still exist in family hands into the 21st century 10 1542 13 February Catherine Howard the fifth wife of Henry VIII is executed in the Tower of London for adultery 4 4 June the Anglican Diocese of Bristol is created from part of the newly formed Diocese of Gloucester with Paul Bush as first Bishop of Bristol 24 August Battle of Haddon Rig Scottish victory over the English 4 September earliest recorded Preston Guild Court in the modern sequence which lasts unbroken until 1922 September Anglican Diocese of Oxford formed 24 November Battle of Solway Moss English victory over the Scots 3 Witchcraft Act first defines witchcraft as a felony punishable by death repealed 1547 Completion of more Device Forts along the coast Pendennis and St Mawes Castles in Cornwall East Cowes Castle on the Isle of Wight and Sandsfoot Castle at modern day Weymouth Dorset Muster rolls are compiled in the counties 1543 11 February Henry allies with Emperor Charles V against France 3 March Consolidating Act of Welsh Union Parliament establishes counties and regularises parliamentary representation in Wales 3 1 July Treaty of Greenwich between England and Scotland repudiated by Scotland 11 December 3 12 July King Henry VIII marries his sixth and final wife Catherine Parr at Hampton Court Palace 4 4 August three Protestant Windsor Martyrs suffer death by burning 11 Thomas Tallis becomes a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal 1544 March Third Succession Act reinstating Princesses Mary and Elizabeth to the line of succession to the English throne given Royal Assent having been passed by Parliament in July 1543 3 April posthumous publication of Cardinal John Fisher s Psalmi seu precationes in the original and in an anonymous English translation by its sponsor Queen Catherine Parr 12 3 May Edward Seymour Earl of Hertford captures Leith and Edinburgh from Scotland 3 start of the first major campaign in the Rough Wooing 19 July 18 September Italian War of 1542 1546 Henry VIII leads the First Siege of Boulogne in France 3 Thomas Cranmer s Exhortation and Litany is issued the first officially authorised vernacular church service in English King s College Chapel Cambridge is completed Second programme of construction of Device Forts for defence of the Solent is ordered The Great Debasement of English coinage begins 3 1545 27 February Scottish victory over the English at the Battle of Ancrum Moor 3 29 May publication of Catherine Parr s Prayers or Meditations the first book published by an English queen under her own name and the King s Primer another devotional work overseen by her 12 July Italian Wars Attempted French invasion of the Isle of Wight 3 18 19 July Battle of the Solent between English and French fleets On 19 July Henry VIII s flagship the Mary Rose sinks 2 but the French are unable to land on the English mainland c 21 July Battle of Bonchurch on the Isle of Wight The French are defeated Sir Thomas Cawarden becomes the first Master of the Revels to be head of an independent office 3 Roger Ascham s Toxophilus the first book on archery written in English is published Thomas Phaer s The Boke of Chyldren the first book on paediatrics written in English is published First published edition of Sir John Fortescue s De laudibus legum Angliae written c 1471 1546 24 April Navy Board established 3 7 June Treaty of Ardres ends the Italian War of 1542 1546 Henry VIII promises eventual return of Boulogne to France 4 4 November Christ Church Oxford refounded as a college by Henry VIII under this name 19 December Trinity College Cambridge founded by Henry VIII 3 Regius Professorship of Hebrew at the University of Oxford established by Henry VIII 1547 19 January execution of Henry Howard Earl of Surrey for treason 4 28 January King Henry VIII dies at the Palace of Whitehall and is succeeded by his 9 year old son Edward VI as King 4 31 January Edward Seymour becomes regent of England 3 20 February Edward VI is crowned at Westminster Abbey 2 4 April Catherine Parr widow of King Henry VIII secretly marries Thomas Seymour 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley 10 September Battle of Pinkie An English army under Edward Seymour now the Duke of Somerset defeats a Scottish army under James Hamilton 2nd Earl of Arran the Regent The English seize Edinburgh 3 Edward Seymour begins the construction of Somerset House London 3 Treason Act makes it high treason to interrupt the line of succession to the throne established by the Act of Succession and requires two witnesses to prove a charge of treason Six Articles repealed 3 Dissolution of Colleges Act allows St Stephen s Chapel in the Palace of Westminster to become the meeting place of the House of Commons of England King James s School Almondbury West Yorkshire founded as a chantry school 1548 Dissolution of collegiate churches and chantries Beverley Minster in Yorkshire is suppressed as a collegiate church on Easter Sunday 13 Howden Minster in Yorkshire is suppressed as a collegiate church Destruction of the religious colleges of Glasney and Crantock in Cornwall end the formal scholarship that has helped sustain the Cornish language and cultural identity King s School Pontefract re founded Clergy Marriage Act 1548 removes bars to clerical marriage John Bale writes Kynge Johan the earliest English historical drama 3 Edward Hall s The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancastre and Yorke Hall s Chronicle is published posthumously 1549 15 January Act of Uniformity imposes the Book of Common Prayer 3 9 June Book of Common Prayer The Booke of the Common Prayer introduced in churches 2 Prayer Book Rebellion against the Book of Common Prayer breaks out at Sampford Courtenay in Devon and in Cornwall 4 July Kett s Rebellion in Norfolk against land enclosures 4 rebellion in Oxfordshire against landowners associated with religious changes 14 6 August Prayer Book Rebellion Battle of Clyst Heath John Russell 1st Earl of Bedford defeats rebels 8 August France declares war on England 9 August England declares war on France 3 17 August Battle of Sampford Courtenay Prayer Book rebellion quashed 26 August Battle of Dussindale near Norwich Kett s Rebellion quashed 3 10 October Edward Seymour 1st Duke of Somerset loses the position of Lord Protector John Dudley Earl of Warwick assumes his powers but does not acquire the title 4 5 December Cardinal Reginald Pole receives 26 votes at the Papal conclave only two short of the requisite two thirds majority to be elected as Pope December Sternhold and Hopkins Psalter Al such psalmes of Dauid as Thomas Sternehold didde in his life time draw into English Metre is published Putting away of Books and Images Act 1549 passed The spire of Lincoln Cathedral is blown down 15 Births edit1540 24 January Edmund Campion Jesuit and Roman Catholic martyr died 1581 25 February Henry Howard 1st Earl of Northampton courtier and scholar died 1614 c February or March Sir Francis Drake explorer and soldier died 1596 11 June Barnabe Googe poet died 1594 William Byrd composer died 1623 George Hastings Earl of Huntingdon nobleman died 1604 Christopher Hatton politician died 1591 1541 Walter Devereux 1st Earl of Essex nobleman died 1576 1542 5 May Thomas Cecil 1st Earl of Exeter politician died 1623 6 June Richard Grenville soldier and explorer died 1591 1543 8 November Lettice Knollys noblewoman died 1634 16 Thomas Deloney novelist and balladeer died 1600 Douglas Sheffield Baroness Sheffield nee Howard lover of Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester died 1608 1544 April Thomas Fleming judge died 1613 24 May William Gilbert scientist died 1603 Richard Bancroft Archbishop of Canterbury died 1610 Thomas Hobson carrier and origin of the phrase Hobson s choice died 1631 John Knewstub Puritan died 1624 George Whetstone writer died 1587 1545 2 March Thomas Bodley diplomat and library founder died 1613 Nicholas Breton poet and novelist died 1626 John Field Puritan clergyman and controversialist died 1588 John Gerard botanist died 1612 1546 13 June Tobias Matthew archbishop of York died 1628 24 June Robert Persons Jesuit priest died 1610 Thomas Digges astronomer died 1595 1547 Peter Bales calligrapher died 1610 George Carey Baron Hunsdon politician died 1603 Richard Stanyhurst translator of Virgil died 1618 1548 William Stanley soldier died 1630 1549 12 July Edward Manners Earl of Rutland died 1587 30 November Sir Henry Savile educator died 1622 John Rainolds scholar and Bible translator died 1607 Deaths edit1540 c January Elizabeth Blount mistress of King Henry VIII born 1502 28 July Thomas Cromwell 1st Earl of Essex statesman executed born c 1485 30 July Thomas Abel priest martyred born c 1497 Robert Barnes reformer martyred born 1495 1541 27 May Margaret Pole Countess of Salisbury courtier executed born 1473 24 November Margaret Tudor daughter of King Henry VII and queen of James IV of Scotland born 1489 10 December Thomas Culpeper courtier executed year of birth unknown 1542 13 February Catherine Howard fifth wife of King Henry VIII executed born c 1522 3 March Arthur Plantagenet 1st Viscount Lisle illegitimate son of King Edward IV year of birth unknown 1461 1475 6 October Thomas Wyatt poet and diplomat born 1503 1543 19 July Mary Boleyn mistress of Kings Francis I of France and Henry VIII of England born 1500 20 September Thomas Manners 1st Earl of Rutland born 1492 October November Hans Holbein the Younger painter born c 1497 in Germany Margaret Lee lady in waiting sister of poet Thomas Wyatt born 1506 1544 30 April Thomas Audley 1st Baron Audley of Walden Lord Chancellor born 1488 1545 April October William Latimer churchman and scholar born c 1467 May Agnes Howard Duchess of Norfolk noblewoman born c 1477 24 August Charles Brandon 1st Duke of Suffolk politician and husband of Mary Tudor born c 1484 18 October John Taverner composer born c 1490 1546 26 March Thomas Elyot diplomat and scholar born c 1490 16 July Anne Askew Protestant burned at the stake born 1521 1547 19 January Henry Howard Earl of Surrey nobleman politician and poet executed born c 1517 28 January King Henry VIII born 1491 c May Edward Hall chronicler and lawyer born c 1496 October or November John Redford composer poet and playwright born c 1500 1548 7 September Catherine Parr queen of Henry VIII born c 1512 1549 10 March Thomas Seymour 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley politician and diplomat born 1508 April Andrew Boorde traveller born 1490 15 April Henry Somerset Earl of Worcester born 1496 7 December Robert Kett rebel executed year of birth unknown References edit Powicke F Maurice Fryde E B eds 1961 Handbook of British Chronology 2nd ed London Butler amp Tanner Ltd p 39 a b c d Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 2006 ISBN 978 0 14 102715 9 a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History London Century Ltd pp 147 150 ISBN 978 0 7126 5616 0 a b c d e f g h i Williams Hywel 2005 Cassell s Chronology of World History London Weidenfeld amp Nicolson pp 215 218 ISBN 978 0 304 35730 7 6 of the most catastrophic weather events in British history HistoryExtra Retrieved 2020 10 30 Ballantyne J W October 1906 The Byrth of Mankynde Its Author and Editions The Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the British Empire 10 4 297 325 doi 10 1111 j 1471 0528 1906 tb12722 x PMC 5413625 PMID 29612085 Moody T W et al eds 1989 A New History of Ireland 8 A Chronology of Irish History Oxford University Press ISBN 978 0 19 821744 2 Crown of Ireland Act 1542 Heraldica 2003 07 25 Retrieved 2012 11 01 Text of the Crown of Ireland Act I 1542 c 1 as in force today including any amendments within the United Kingdom from legislation gov uk As business park proprietors Heritage www brookesmill co uk Brookes Mill Archived from the original on 2017 11 13 Retrieved 2020 08 16 Ford David Nash 2009 Berkshire in the Reign of Henry VIII Wokingham Nash Ford Publishing a b James Susan E 2004 Katherine Katherine Parr 1512 1548 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Vol 1 online ed Oxford University Press doi 10 1093 ref odnb 4893 Retrieved 2012 01 31 Subscription or UK public library membership required History Timeline Beverley Minster Retrieved 2016 12 24 Rosen Adrienne 2010 Tudor Rebellions In Tiller Kate Darkes Giles eds An Historical Atlas of Oxfordshire Chipping Norton Oxfordshire Record Society pp 82 3 ISBN 978 0 902509 68 9 1549 Lincoln Cathedral Archived from the original on 2011 07 13 Retrieved 2010 10 21 O Day Rosemary 26 July 2012 The Routledge Companion to the Tudor Age Routledge p 1585 ISBN 978 1 136 96253 0 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 1540s in England amp oldid 1187970131, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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