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Events from the 1510s in England.

Contents

Incumbents

Monarch - Henry VIII

Events

  • 1510
  • c. January - Erasmus begins his period of residence in Cambridge.
  • 21 January - Parliament grants Henry VIII generous tax subsidies.
  • 31 January - Catherine of Aragon gives birth to her first child, a stillborn daughter.
  • 17 August - Richard Empson and Edmund Dudley executed for 'constructive treason'.
  • 1511
  • 9 April - St John's College, Cambridge, receives its charter.
  • July - Henry VIII's flagship the Mary Rose launched at Portsmouth.
  • 13 November - War of the League of Cambrai: Henry joins the Holy League against France.
  • 17 November - The Treaty of Westminster signed between England and Spain forming an alliance against France.
  • Archery Act attempts to ensure competence in use of the English longbow by most adult males.
  • Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, begins reconstruction of Thornbury Castle in South Gloucestershire as a residence.
  • Major fire at Sherston, Wiltshire.
  • 1512
  • February - Following Strode's case — that of Member of Parliament Richard Strode imprisoned by a Stannary Court due to his attempts to introduce a bill alleviating the harsh conditions of tin miners — parliament passes an act granting MPs immunity from such prosecutions.
  • March - Parliament authorises a new poll tax to pay for the War of the League of Cambrai.
  • 10 August - War of the League of Cambrai: The English fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir Edward Howard, secures victory at the Battle of Saint-Mathieu over the French-Breton fleet, though with loss of its flagship, the Regent, through explosion.
  • Woolwich Dockyard established for the Royal Navy.
  • Wolverhampton Grammar School is founded by Sir Stephen Jenyns.
  • 1513
  • 5 April - Treaty of Mechlin signed by Henry, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, Ferdinand II of Aragon and Pope Leo X against France.
  • 30 April - Execution of Edmund de la Pole, 3rd Duke of Suffolk.
  • July - War of the League of Cambrai: Scotland declares war on England, in breach of the Treaty of Perpetual Peace.
  • 16 August - War of the League of Cambrai: Henry VIII leads his troops to victory over the French at the Battle of Guinegate.
  • 9 September - War of the League of Cambrai: At the Battle of Flodden, King James IV of Scotland is defeated and killed by an English army under Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey.
  • 24 September - War of the League of Cambrai: The city of Tournai surrenders to England.
  • Deptford Dockyard established for the Royal Navy.
  • 1514
  • April - Henry VIII declares a truce with France in the War of the League of Cambrai.
  • 20 May - Trinity House is established as a guild of mariners at Deptford to regulate pilotage.
  • June - Battle of Hornshole in the Scottish Borders: Young men from Hawick defeat a raiding party from England.
  • 13 June - Henry Grace à Dieu, at over 1,000 tons the largest warship in the world at this time, built at the new Woolwich Dockyard, is dedicated at Erith.
  • 7 August - Henry VIII concludes an independent peace treaty with France in the War of the League of Cambrai, negotiated by Thomas Wolsey.
  • 15 September - Thomas Wolsey is appointed Archbishop of York and begins to build York House in London.
  • 9 October - Marriage of Louis XII of France and Mary Tudor (sister of Henry VIII) as part of the peace with France.
  • 1515
  • 2 July - Manchester Grammar School endowed by Hugh Oldham, the first free grammar school in England.
  • 10 September - Thomas Wolsey invested as a Cardinal.
  • 24 December - Wolsey is named the Lord Chancellor.
  • Wolsey commissions the rebuilding of Hampton Court Palace.
  • Structural completion of King's College Chapel, Cambridge.
  • 1516
  • Gillingham School founded in Dorset.
  • c. December - Thomas More's Utopia is first published (in Latin at Leuven).
  • 1517
  • 1 March - Corpus Christi College, Oxford, established by Richard Foxe.
  • 1 May - Evil May Day riots in London against foreigners.
  • A third epidemic of sweating sickness hits Oxford and Cambridge.
  • 1518
  • August - Construction of the Manchester Grammar School is completed.
  • 23 September - Royal College of Physicians founded in London.
  • 3 October - Cardinal Wolsey's Treaty of London is signed by France, England, the Holy Roman Empire, the Papacy, Spain, Burgundy and the Netherlands allying the European powers against the Ottoman Empire.
  • 1519
  • May - Henry VIII stands as a candidate in the election of the Holy Roman Emperor.
  • 15 May - Official opening of Saint George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.
  • Henry VII's Chapel at Westminster Abbey completed.

    • Births

  • 1510
  • 6 October
  • John Caius, physician (died 1573)
  • Rowland Taylor, Protestant martyr (died 1555)
  • 28 December - Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper (died 1579)
  • 1511
  • 1 January - Henry, Duke of Cornwall, eldest son of Henry VIII of England (died 22 February)
  • 1512
  • Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln, admiral (died 1585)
  • 1513
  • 23 December - Thomas Smith, scholar and diplomat (died 1577)
  • Elizabeth Seymour, sister-in-law of Henry VIII (died 1563)
  • Thomas Watson, Catholic bishop (died 1584)
  • 1514
  • 16 June - John Cheke, classical scholar and statesman (died 1557)
  • December - Henry, Duke of Cornwall, third son of Henry VIII (stillborn)
  • 1515
  • 15 June - Anne Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, born Anne Parr (died 1552)
  • 22 September - Anne of Cleves, German-born fourth queen of Henry VIII (died 1557)
  • approx. date
  • Roger Ascham, scholar and didactic writer (died 1568)
  • William Baldwin, writer, editor and theatrical director (died c.1563)
  • Leonard Digges, mathematician and surveyor (died c.1559)
  • Thomas Seckford, lawyer and royal court official (died 1587)
  • 1516
  • 18 February - Queen Mary I of England (died 1558)
  • approx. date - Laurence Nowell, antiquarian (died 1571)
  • 1517
  • 16 July - Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk, granddaughter of Henry VII (died 1559)
  • approx. date - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, aristocrat (died 1547)
  • 1518
  • approx. date - Edmund Plowden, legal scholar (died 1585)
  • 1519
  • approx. date
  • Thomas Gresham, merchant and financier (died 1579)
  • Nicholas Grimald, poet (died 1562)
  • Edwin Sandys, bishop (died 1588)

    • Deaths

  • 1510
  • 17 August
  • Edmund Dudley, statesman (born c. 1462)
  • Richard Empson, statesman (year of birth unknown)
  • 1511
  • 11 February - Henry, Duke of Cornwall, eldest son of Henry VIII of England (born 1 January)
  • 1513
  • 10 March - John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, general (born 1443)
  • 30 April - Edmund de la Pole, 3rd Duke of Suffolk (born 1471)
  • 27 October - George Manners, 11th Baron de Ros, nobleman (year of birth unknown)
  • Robert Fabyan, chronicler (year of birth unknown)
  • 1514
  • 2 January - William Smyth, bishop and statesman (born 1460)
  • December - Henry, Duke of Cornwall, third son of Henry VIII of England (stillborn)
  • 1516
  • 25 April - John Yonge, diplomat (born 1467)
  • 1518
  • 20 November - Marmaduke Constable, soldier (born c. 1455)
  • 1519
  • 10 September - John Colet, churchman and educator (born 1467)
  • William Grocyn, scholar (born 1446)

    • References

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