1509 - 1547

Question 1

• Henry VII dies and Henry VIII ascends
• Empson and Dudley are arrested
• Henry and Catherine of Aragon marry

Answer 1

1509

Question 2

Henry joins the Holy League against France

Answer 2

1511

Question 3

• battle of Flodden
• James IV dies
• English victory at Tournai
• Thomas Wolsey rises in Henry’s service

Answer 3

1513

Question 4

• Peace with France

- Louis XII marries Mary – Henry’s sister

Answer 4

1514

Question 5

• Wolsey becomes a cardinal
• Bessie Blount becomes Henry’s mistress
• Princess Mary is born

Answer 5

1516

Question 6

Wolsey sets up the Treaty of London

Answer 6

1518

Question 7

• Charles V becomes holy Roman emperor

- Illegitimate Henry Fitzroy is born

Answer 7

1519

Question 8

• Field of Cloth of Gold
• Henry meets Francis I of France + Emperor Charles V
• Mary Boleyn becomes the king’s mistress

Answer 8

1520

Question 9

• execution of the duke of Buckingham

- Henry writes a book on his Catholic beliefs.

Answer 9

1521

Question 10

War with France; Henry ends his relationship with Mary Boleyn

Answer 10

1522

Question 11

Henry starts divorce proceedings against Catherine.

Answer 11

1527

Question 12

Wolsey fails to find a solution to Henry’s divorce and Henry fires him

Answer 12

1529

Question 13

Henry sleeps with Anne Boleyn, who becomes pregnant

Answer 13

1532

Question 14

• Henry marries Anne Boleyn
• Archbishop Cranmer declares Henry’s first marriage null
• Act in Restraint of Appeal severs ties to Rome
• Elizabeth is born

Answer 14

1533

Question 15

Parliament passes the First Succession Act and the Treasons Act

Answer 15

1534

Question 16

• dissolution of the monasteries
• act of supremacy
• pilgrimage of grace
• silken Thomas revolts in ireland
• the English bible is approved
• Henry marries Jane Seymour

Answer 16

1536

Question 17

Prince Edward is born; Jane dies

Answer 17

1537

Question 18

act of six articles

Answer 18

1539

Question 19

• Henry marries and divorces Anne of Cleves
• Thomas Cromwell falls
• Henry marries Catherine Howard

Answer 19

1540

Question 20

• Treaty with the emperor

- war with Scotland

Answer 20

1542

Question 21

• Henry marries Catherine Parr

- Treaty of Greenwich betroths Prince Edward to Mary Queen of Scots

Answer 21

1543

Question 22

• War with France
• attack on Scotland
• fall of Boulogne

Answer 22

1544

Question 23

• England defeats a potential French invasion

- Mary rose sinks

Answer 23

• 1545

Question 24

• The Howards fall

- Henry makes his will

Answer 24

1546

Question 25

- Henry VIII dies + Edward (aged 9) becomes king - duke of Somerset forms the protectorate - war with Scotland - Act of Six Articles is repealed

Answer 25

1547