23 May - Henry VIII's marriage with Catherine of Aragon officially declared annulled. Catherine refuses to accept and continues to believe herself the wife of Henry until her death.
28 May - Cranmer declares the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn valid.
1 June - Anne Boleyn crowned Queen at Westminster Abbey, the culmination of four days of ceremonies.
7 September - Elizabeth I born to Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn at Greenwich
Sumptuary law, An Act for reformation of excess in apparel, passed.
Buggery Act (applicable from 1534) makes buggery subject to the death penalty, the first time such acts had been legislated for outside the ecclesiastical courts.
1534
15 January - The English Reformation Parliament passes the Act Respecting the Oath to the Succession recognising the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, and their children as the legitimate heirs to the throne.
20 April - Elizabeth Barton executed for making prophesies against King Henry.
3 November–18 December - The Reformation Parliament passes the Act of Supremacy establishing Henry VIII as supreme head of the Church of England.
Treasons Act makes it treason, punishable by death, to disavow the Act of Supremacy.
January–May - Valor Ecclesiasticus: local commissioners survey the finances of religious establishments with a view to the imposition of a new tax by the Exchequer.
6 July - Sir Thomas More is executed for treason on Tower Hill after refusing to agree to Henry VIII's decision to separate the English church from the Roman Catholic church.
First of the Laws in Wales Acts passed, beginning the Anglicisation of the Welsh legal system.
Study of canon law at English universities prohibited.
April - An Acte for Laws & Justice to be ministred in Wales in like fourme as it is in this Realme (27 Henry VIII c. 26) further incorporates the legal system of Wales into that of England.
14 April - The Reformation Parliament passes an Act for the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Religious houses closed as part of Henry VIII's dissolution include
24 October - Jane Seymour dies of complications from childbirth at Hampton Court Palace; on 12 November she receives a royal burial in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
Publication of the Matthew Bible, the first complete English translation of the bible, edited by John Rogers under the pseudonym "Thomas Matthew" based on Tyndale's translation and probably printed in Hamburg.
Continuing Dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII, from late summer mostly by voluntary surrender, including
Publication of An Introduction for to Lerne to Recken with the Pen and with the Counters, the first known English translation of an arithmetic textbook, at St Albans.
1538
19 June - The newly founded Bisham Abbey is dissolved.
21 September (3 a.m.) - Cromwell's commissioners for the Dissolution of the Monasteries destroy the shrine of St. Swithun in Winchester Cathedral.
9 February - First horse race held at Chester Racecourse, the oldest in use in England.
March - Canterbury Cathedral surrenders, and reverts to its previous status of 'a college of secular canons'.
March - Invasion scare, following reports of an alliance between Spain, France, and Scotland. The king orders construction of the 'Device Forts' for defence of the realm.
April - Printing of the Great Bible (The Byble in Englyshe) is completed and it is distributed to churches. Prepared by Myles Coverdale, it contains much material from the Tyndale Bible (unacknowleged as this version is officially considered heretical).
May - The Six Articles reaffirm certain Catholic principles in Henry VIII's Church of England.
19 September - Reading Abbey is suppressed and the Abbot, Hugh Cook Faringdon, indicted and hanged, drawn and quartered for treason on 14 November. Also on 19 September, Glastonbury Abbey is suppressed by visitors without warning and Abbot Richard Whiting hanged on Glastonbury Tor on 15 November. The same fate befalls the abbot of St. John's Abbey, Colchester, Thomas Marshall, who is hanged on 1 December.
4 October - A treaty is arranged for Henry VIII to marry Anne of Cleves.
