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Reformation Chronology
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A Timetable of the Protestant Reformation in England
1509-47
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Henry VIII
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1517
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Martin Luther nailed 95 theses to the church door in Wittenberg
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1520s
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Lutheran books publicly burned in London
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1522
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Luther published his translation of the New Testament in German, followed by whole Bible in 1534
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1523
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Act forbidding foreigners to take any but English-born apprentices
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1524
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London booksellers warned against importing Lutheran books by Bishop of London
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1526
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William Tyndale's translation of the New Testament into English as exile in Cologne
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1533
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Henry VIII issued proclamation which limited the number of aliens employed in printing
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1533
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Thomas More succeeds Wolsey as Lord Chancellor of England under H8
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1533
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Publisher Richard Bayfield burnt at stake for importing prohibited Lutheran (Protestant) books
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1533
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Henry VIII married Anne Boleyn under the Act of appeals
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1534
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The Act of Supremacy constituting the Break with Rome
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1534
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Act for 'Prynters and Binders of Bokes' restricted printing to English subjects and strict controls exercised on imports by foreigners
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1534
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Official translation of Bible permitted in England — Miles Coverdale (in exile) commissioned, and issued work in exile
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1535
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Thomas More executed
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1536
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Thomas Cromwell's injunctions that Coverdale's Bible should be placed in every parish church. A new translation requested from Coverdale
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1538
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Dissolution of the Monasteries
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1543
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Great Bible on sale
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1543
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Parliament tried to stop lower-class laymen reading Bible
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1547-1553
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Edward VI
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1549
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First Book of Common Prayer printed under Archbishop Cramner. This was Protestant and in English. New edition, 1552.
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1553-58
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Mary I
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1555
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Persecution of Protestants
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1558
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Elizabeth I
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1559
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Elizabethan Settlement. Restoration of Protestant prayer book and Episcopacy
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1571
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Thirty Nine Articles
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Reformation Chronology
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