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Period: 1509 to 1547
Henry VIII's reign
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1517
Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses
Martin Luther wrote and published the Ninety-Five Theses -
1526
The Tyndale Bible
The New Testatment was translated into English by William Tyndale -
1534
Act of supremacy 1534
Defined the right of Henry VIII to be supreme head of the Church of England -
Period: 1536 to 1537
Pilgrimage of Grace
The monasteries dissolution process was interrupted by rebellions in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire -
1537
Permission for an English bible
English bible was allowed (instead of a Latin one) and soon made mandatory in every Church -
Period: 1547 to 1553
Edward VI's reign
Edward VI died at the age of 15 from tuberculosis -
1549
Publication of the book of common prayer
Was allowed under the reign of Edward VI thanks to the revision of the mass-book -
Period: 1553 to 1558
Mary I's reign
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1554
Restauration of Catholicism
Mary I restored Catholicism in 18 months -
Period: 1558 to
Elizabeth I's reign
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1559
Act of Uniformity
Legislation stating that :
- every parish had to use the book of common prayer
- people who did not attend an anligan service were fined -
1559
Elizabethan religious settlement
Queen Elizabeth wished to create a new moderate religious settlement derived from her father's (Henry the VIII) with both catholic and protestant ideas -
1559
Act of supremacy 1559
Legislation of Elizabeth the first which made her « superme governor of the church of england » -
Period: 1563 to 1571
39 articles of faith
3 important changes :
- new ecclisiology (conception of the church)
- new doctrine of Salvation (how we can be sent to heaven)
- new definition of sacraments and of the mass -
1570
Pope Pius's Papal Bull « Regnans in excelsis »
A violent text which excommunicated Elizabeth I -
Act of union (1801)
legislative agreement uniting GB (England and Scotland) and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland