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Reformation Chronology

Page history last edited by Eric Leonidas 6 years, 7 months ago

 

A Timetable of the Protestant Reformation in England

 

1509-47

Henry VIII

1517

Martin Luther nailed 95 theses to the church door in Wittenberg

1520s

Lutheran books publicly burned in London

1522

Luther published his translation of the New Testament in German, followed by whole Bible in 1534

1523

Act forbidding foreigners to take any but English-born apprentices

1524

London booksellers warned against importing Lutheran books by Bishop of London

1526

William Tyndale's translation of the New Testament into English as exile in Cologne

1533

Henry VIII issued proclamation which limited the number of aliens employed in printing

1533

Thomas More succeeds Wolsey as Lord Chancellor of England under H8

1533

Publisher Richard Bayfield burnt at stake for importing prohibited Lutheran (Protestant) books

1533

Henry VIII married Anne Boleyn under the Act of appeals

1534

The Act of Supremacy constituting the Break with Rome

1534

Act for 'Prynters and Binders of Bokes' restricted printing to English subjects and strict controls exercised on imports by foreigners

1534

Official translation of Bible permitted in England — Miles Coverdale (in exile) commissioned, and issued work in exile

1535

Thomas More executed

1536

Thomas Cromwell's injunctions that Coverdale's Bible should be placed in every parish church. A new translation requested from Coverdale

1538

Dissolution of the Monasteries

1543

Great Bible on sale

1543

Parliament tried to stop lower-class laymen reading Bible

1547-1553

Edward VI

1549

First Book of Common Prayer printed under Archbishop Cramner. This was Protestant and in English.  New edition, 1552.

1553-58

Mary I

1555

Persecution of Protestants

1558

Elizabeth I

1559

Elizabethan Settlement.  Restoration of Protestant prayer book and Episcopacy

1571

Thirty Nine Articles

 

 

 

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