Chronology: Key Events in The Church in England: the Struggle for Supremacy, 1529–1547

• 1529 Reformation Parliament meets; Wolsey disgraced.
• 1530 Church charged with praemunire. Death of Cardinal Wolsey.
• 1531 Charge of praemunire dropped in return for a grant of £100,000.
• 1532 Emergence of Thomas Cromwell as the king’s chief minister. Thomas Cranmer appointed Archbishop of Canterbury following death of Warham. Supplication against the Ordinaries. Submission of the Clergy. Act in Restraint of Annates.
• 1533 Cranmer declares Henry’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon invalid.
• 1534 Marriage of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn.
• 1535 Act in Restraint of Appeals. Cromwell appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer. Act of First Fruits and Tenths. Cromwell appointed Henry’s Principal Secretary. Act of Supremacy. Treasons Act. Execution of Bishop John Fisher and Sir Thomas More. Visitations to monasteries.
• 1536 Publication of the Ten Articles. Closure of smaller monasteries.
  Pilgrimage of Grace. Act for Extinguishing the Authority of the Bishop of Rome. Execution of Anne Boleyn.
• 1537 Birth of Edward to Henry’s third wife, Jane Seymour.
• 1538–40 Closure of the larger monasteries.
• 1539 Publication of the Six Articles and the Great Bible.
• 1540 Cromwell executed on charge of treason.
• 1542–43 War against Scotland.
• 1544–46 War against France.
• 1544 Succession Act.
• 1547 (Jan.) Henry VIII dies.