| 1478 | Thomas More is probably born. | ||
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| 1484 | Hugh Latimer is born. | ||
| 1485 | Thomas Cromwell probably born. | ||
| 1489 | Thomas Cranmer is born. | ||
| 1491 | Henry VIII is born. | ||
| 1494 | William Tyndale is born. | ||
| 1495 | Robert Barnes is born. | ||
| 1495 | Thomas Bilney born in Norwich. | ||
| 1500 | Reginald Pole is born. | ||
| 1501 | Arthur marries Catharine of Aragon. | ||
| 1504 | Pope Julius II allows Henry VIII to marry Catharine of Aragon. | ||
| 1504 | Matthew Parker is born. | ||
| 1505 | Thomas More marries Jane Colt. | ||
| 1509 | Henry VIII marries Catharine of Aragon. | ||
| 1514 | Katherine Parr is born | ||
| 1519 | Thomas Bilney ordained by Bishop West of Ely. | ||
| 1521 | Pope Leo X calls King Henry VIII “Defender of the Faith” for his publication of an anti-Luther tract. | ||
| 1521 | Robert Barnes introduces humanist scholarship to Augustinian house in Cambridge. | ||
| 1521 | Anne Askew is born. | ||
| 1521 | Henry VIII publishes *Assertio Septem Sacramentorum* in defense of the seven sacraments. | ||
| 1524 | Thomas Bilney "converts" Hugh Latimer. | ||
| 1525 | Thomas Bilney is licensed to preach in Ely. | ||
| 1526 | Henry VIII begins courting Anne Boleyn. | ||
| 1526 | Wolsey summons Thomas Bilney and he is forced to take an oath not to disseminate Luther's views. | ||
| 1527 | Henry VIII appeals to Pope Clement VII for annulment for marriage to Catharine of Aragon. | ||
| 1529 | Simon Fish publishes The Supplication of Beggars. | ||
| 1529 | Thomas More replaces Wolsey as Lord Chancellor. | ||
| 1529 | Thomas More succeeds Thomas Wolsey as Lord Chancellor. | ||
| 1530 | Robert Barnes flees to Wittenberg. | ||
| 1530 | William Tracy's will circulates among evangelicals. As a result, his body is exhumed and burned. | ||
| 1530 | Robert Barnes writes A Supplication unto King Henry VIII. | ||
| 1531 | Robert Barnes writes Supplication to Henry VIII. | ||
| 1531 | Thomas Bilney executed in London. | ||
| 1532 | Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor the day after the Submission of the Clergy is passed. | ||
| 1532 | Thomas More writes Letter Against Frith. | ||
| 1533 | Parliament passes the Act in Restraint of Appeals. | ||
| 1533 | Anne Boleyn gives birth to Elizabeth. | ||
| 1533 | Thomas More writes Confutation of Tyndale's Answer. | ||
| 1533 | Henry VIII is excommunicated. | ||
| 1533 | The Buggery Act is adopted by Henry VIII. | The Buggery Act | |
| 1533 | March | Thomas Cranmer is appointed Archbishop of Canterbury by Henry VIII. | |
| 1533 | May | Henry VIII secretly marries Anne Boleyn. | |
| 1534 | King Henry VIII declares himself the supreme head of the church in England. | ||
| 1534 | Act of Supremacy. | ||
| 1535 | Thomas More is beheaded in Tower of London for failing to take the Oath of Supremacy. | ||
| 1535 | Thomas More is executed. | ||
| 1536 | William Tyndale burned at stake. | ||
| 1536 | Thomas Cromwell secures the Act of Dissolution which closes monasteries. | ||
| 1536 | Robert Barnes returns to England. | ||
| 1536 | Henry VIII begins suppressing monasteries. | ||
| 1536 | Catharine of Aragon dies. | ||
| 1536 | Anne Boleyn executed. | ||
| 1536 | Henry VIII marries Jane Seymour. | ||
| 1536 | Pilgrimage of Grace begins. | Pilgrimage of Grace | |
| 1537 | Jane Grey is born | ||
| 1537 | Edward VI is born. | ||
| 1537 | Jane Seymour dies. | ||
| 1539 | Six Articles passed by English parlaiment at Henry VIII's urging. | ||
| 1540 | Robert Barnes burned at the stake. | ||
| 1540 | Anne Askew marries Thomas Kyme of Kelsey. | ||
| 1540 | Henry VIII marries Anne of Cleves. | ||
| 1540 | Henry VIII's marriage to Anne of Cleves is annulled. | ||
| 1540 | Henry VIII marries Katherine Howard. | ||
| 1540 | July 28 | Henry VIII has Thomas Cromwell executed. | |
| 1540 | July 30 | Robert Barnes burned at the stake. | |
| 1542 | Katherine Howard executed for treason. | ||
| 1543 | Henry VIII marries Catherine Parr. | ||
| 1544 | Anne Askew's husband, Thomas Kyme expels her from his home because of her "heretical" views. | ||
| 1545 | Anne Askew arrested twice in 1545 in London. | ||
| 1546 | Anne Askew arrested for the third time. | ||
| 1546 | July 16 | Anne Askew was tied to a chair and burned alive. | |
| 1546 | June 28 | Anne Askew condemned. | |
| 1546 | June 29 | Anne Askew placed on the rack and tortured until many bones were broken. She refused to recant. | |
| 1547 | Henry VIII dies. | ||
| 1548 | Katherine Parr dies. | ||
| 1549 | Thomas Cranmer's First Book of Common Prayer published | ||
| 1552 | Thomas Cranmer publishes the Second Book of Common Prayer. | ||
| 1553 | Thomas Cranmer writes Forty Two Articles of the Reformed Faith. | ||
| 1553 | Edward VI dies at age fifteen. | ||
| 1553 | October 1 | Queen Mary ascends to the throne. | |
| 1554 | Jane Grey is executed. | ||
| 1555 | Nicholas Ridley and Hugh Latimer burned at the stake. | ||
| 1556 | Thomas Cranmer burned at the stake. | ||
| 1558 | Queen Mary dies. | ||
| 1558 | Reginald Pole dies. | ||
| 1571 | Thirty Nine Articles written under Queen Elizabeth. | ||
| 1575 | Matthew Parker dies. |