Walloon Protestants arrive as refugees from the Low Countries
First Book of Common Prayer sanctioned by English Parliament
English Parliament declares enclosures legal
First Act of Uniformity in England made Catholic Mass illegal
Wedding ring finger changed from right to left hand
Priests in England allowed to marry (about a third then did so) - but see 1554
Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, said to be the first 'modern' battle to be fought in the British Isles
Coronation of Edward VI in Westminster Abbey
Death of Henry VIII (succeeded by Edward VI, aged 9, to 1553)
Ivan the Terrible takes title 'Tsar of all the Russias'
Vagrants Act passed (able-bodied tramps can be detained as slaves)
English replaced Latin in church services in England and Wales
Trinity College, Cambridge founded by Henry VIII
Mary Rose, flagship of Henry VIII, sinks in the Solent - raised in 1982
Henry's VIII's Rough Wooing' of the Scottish Borders
Mary of Guise, Regent of Scotland
Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is officially crowned Queen of Scots' in Stirling (spelling of the royal house changes from Stewart to Stuart)
Henry VIII marries Catherine Parr, wife #6, who survives him
Death of King James V of Scots; his baby daughter Mary ?Queen of Scots' succeeds him just 6 days old
Catherine Howard executed
Henry VIII proclaimed king (rather than feudal lord) of Ireland
Thomas Cromwell executed; Henry VIII marries Catherine Howard the same day, wife #5
Henry VIII divorces Anne of Cleves
First recorded horse racing event in Britain, at Chester
Henry VIII marries Anne of Cleves, the 'Flanders Mare', wife #4
Statute of Wills allows freehold land to be bequeathed
Henry VIII excommunicated by Pope Paul III
Henry VIII issues English Bible
English and Welsh parish registers start
Jane Seymour dies from complications in giving birth to a son, the future Edward VI
The authority of the Pope is declared void in England
Henry VIII marries Jane Seymour, wife #3 (she was crowned as Queen on 29th October)
Anne Boleyn executed
Wales and England legally united by the Laws in Wales Act of 1535
Dissolution of monasteries starts in England (to 1540)
Sir Thomas More executed
Reformation of the Catholic Church in England church (Henry VIII)
Anne Boleyn gives birth to a daughter Elizabeth, to become Queen Elizabeth I
Henry VIII excommunicated by Pope Clement VII
Henry VIII's marriage with Catherine of Aragon officially declared annulled
Thomas Cranmer becomes Archbishop of Canterbury
Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn secretly, wife #2 (she was crowned as Queen on 1st June)
Foundation of the Court of Session in Scotland
Henry VIII recognised as Supreme Head of the Church of England
St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle completed
Bishop Vesey's Grammar School founded in Sutton Coldfield
New Testament translated into English by William Tyndale
The Victoria, one of the surviving ships of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, becomes the first ship known to circumnavigate the world
Diet of Worms ends when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw
Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, executed for treason
Martin Luther speaks to the assembly at the Diet of Worms, refusing to recant his teachings
Three ships under the command of Ferdinand Magellan negotiate the Strait of Magellan, becoming the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific
Treaty of London, a non-aggression pact between the major European nations: France, England, Holy Roman Empire, the Papacy, Spain, Burgundy and the Netherlands - sponsored by Cardinal Wolsey
Martin Luther fixes his 95 theses on church door at Wittenburg - regarded as start of the Reformation
Thomas More writes Utopia'
Thomas Wolsley invested as Cardinal
Recording of Testaments (wills) begins in Scotland