Timeline Religious Events

Question 1

1514

Answer 1

Wolsey appointed archbishop of York

Question 2

1515

Answer 2

Wolsey appointed Cardinal

Question 3

1528

Answer 3

Legatine court enquiring into the validity of the king’s marriage

Question 4

1532

Answer 4

Thomas Cranmer appointed Archbishop of Canterbury

Question 5

1533

Answer 5

Act in Restraint of Appeals

Question 6

1534

Answer 6

Act of Supremacy

Question 7

1536

Answer 7

Pilgrimage of Grace

Question 8

1536

Answer 8

• Beginning of dissolution of the monasteries
• First set of royal injunctions issued
• Ten Articles issued

Question 9

1538

Answer 9

Second set of royal injunctions issued

Question 10

1539

Answer 10

• Six Articles Act
• First edition of the Great Bible published

Question 11

1547

Answer 11

Third set of royal injunctions issued

Question 12

1549

Answer 12

Act of Uniformity and issue of first Book of Common Prayer

Question 13

1552

Answer 13

Act of Uniformity and issue of second Book of Common Prayer

Question 14

1553

Answer 14

• 42 Articles of Religion
• Pole appointed papal legate to England

Question 15

1555

Answer 15

• Restoration of Heresy Law
• Burning for Heresy resumes

Question 16

1556

Answer 16

Execution of Cranmer

Question 17

1557

Answer 17

Paul IV revokes Pole’s papal legateship

Question 18

1559

Answer 18

• Acts of Supremacy and Uniformity
• Fourth set of royal injunctions issued
• Matthew Parker appointed Archbishop of Canterbury

Question 19

1563

Answer 19

• 39 Articles issued
• Publication of Foxe’s Book of Martyrs

Question 20

1566

Answer 20

Parker’s Advertisements

Question 21

1570

Answer 21

Elizabeth excommunicated by Pope Pius V

Question 22

1572

Answer 22

Cartwright and Field begin campaign for reform of organisation of English Church

Question 23

1574

Answer 23

Arrival of first Catholic missionary priests

Question 24

1575

Answer 24

Edmund Grindal appointed Archbishop of Canterbury

Question 25

1577

Answer 25

- Suspension of Grindal - Execution of first Catholic priest Cuthbert Mayne

Question 26

1580

Answer 26

Arrival of first Jesuit missionaries

Question 27

1581

Answer 27

Tightening of anti-Catholic laws

Question 28

1583

Answer 28

- John Whitgift appointed Archbishop of Canterbury - Whitgift's Articles issued

Question 29

1585

Answer 29

Further tightening of anti-Catholic legislation

Question 30

1588

Answer 30

First Marprelate tracts published

Question 31

1593

Answer 31

Execution of separatists