1471 in England

1530s in England

Events from the 1530s in England.

11 February - Henry VIII recognised as supreme head of the Church of England.
March - Statute Against Vagabonds requires registration of all genuine beggars; unlicensed beggars to be whipped or pilloried.
Thomas Elyot's book The Boke Named the Governour is published, the first English work concerning moral philosophy.
Construction of the Great Hall of Hampton Court begins.

15 April - Royal approval required for all ecclesiastical laws.
16 May - Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor.
20 May - Thomas Audley appointed Lord Keeper of the Great Seal.
1 September - Anne Boleyn is created Marquess of Pembroke by Henry VIII.
Henry VIII grants the Thorne brothers a Royal Charter to found Bristol Grammar School.
Construction of Saint James's Palace begins.

25 January - King Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn, his second Queen consort.
6 February - Act in Restraint of Appeals declares England to be a wholly independent 'empire'.
30 March - Thomas Cranmer becomes Archbishop of Canterbury.
12 April - Thomas Cromwell becomes Secretary of State.
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 till her death.
28 May - Cranmer declares the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn valid.
1 June - Anne Boleyn crowned Queen.
11 July - Pope Clement VII excommunicates Henry VIII.

15 January - Parliament of England 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.
Cambridge University Press is given Royal Charter by Henry VIII and becomes the first of the privileged presses.

March - English forces under William Skeffington storm Maynooth Castle in Ireland, the stronghold of Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare.
20 May - William Tyndale arrested in Antwerp for heresy in relation to this bible translation.
22 June - Execution of John Fisher for his refusal to swear an oath of loyalty to Henry VIII.
6 July - Sir Thomas More is executed for treason by King Henry VIII after refusing to agree to Henrys' decision to separate the English church from the Roman Catholic church.
First of the Laws in Wales Acts passed.
Study of canon law at English universities banned.

April - Wales legally incorporated into England.
14 April - The Reformation Parliament passes an Act for the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
19 May - Execution of Anne Boleyn.
30 May - Henry VIII marries Jane Seymour.
11 July - Thomas Cranmer's Ten Articles are presented to Parliament.
6 October - Bible translator William Tyndale burnt at the stake in Vilvoorde, Flanders.
1 October–5 December - The Pilgrimage of Grace, a rebellion against Henry VIII's church reforms.
29 October - Coronation of Jane Seymour as the Queen of England.
Various religious buildings are closed as part of Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries, including

July - Pilgrimage of Grace: Robert Aske executed along with over 200 other rebels.
25 August - The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army and the second most senior, was formed.
15 October - Council of the North meets for the first time, in York.
Publication of the Matthew Bible, the first complete English translation of the bible.
Dissolution of religious buildings by Henry VIII, including

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.
May - The Six Articles reaffirm certain Catholic principles in Henry VIII's Church of England.
4 October - A treaty arranges for Henry VIII to marry Anne of Cleves.
Beaulieu Abbey, Bolton Abbey, Colchester Abbey and St Albans Abbey dissolved.
Great Bible, in English, distributed to churches.