1513 in England - Events

Events

• 1510
  • 21 January - Parliament grants Henry VIII generous tax subsidies.
  • 31 January - Catherine of Aragon gives birth to her first child, a stillborn daughter.
  • 17 August - Richard Empson and Edmund Dudley executed for 'constructive treason'.
  • Erasmus begins his period of residence in Cambridge.
• 1511
  • 9 April - St John's College, Cambridge, receives its charter.
  • July - Henry VIII's flagship the Mary Rose launched at Portsmouth.
  • 13 November - War of the League of Cambrai: Henry joins the Holy League against France.
  • 17 November - The Treaty of Westminster signed between England and Spain forming an alliance against France.
  • Archery Act attempts to ensure competence in use of the English longbow by most adult males.
  • Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, begins reconstruction of Thornbury Castle in South Gloucestershire as a residence.
• 1512
  • February - Following Strode's case — that of Member of Parliament Richard Strode imprisoned by a Stannary Court due to his attempts to introduce a bill alleviating the harsh conditions of tin miners — parliament passes an act granting MPs immunity from such prosecutions.
  • March - Parliament authorises a new poll tax to pay for the War of the League of Cambrai.
  • 10 August - War of the League of Cambrai: The English fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir Edward Howard, secures victory at the Battle of Saint-Mathieu over the French-Breton fleet, though with loss of its flagship, the Regent, through explosion.
  • Wolverhampton Grammar School is founded by Sir Stephen Jenyns.
• 1513
  • 5 April - Treaty of Mechlin signed by Henry, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, Ferdinand II of Aragon and Pope Leo X against France.
  • 30 April - Execution of Edmund de la Pole, 3rd Duke of Suffolk.
  • July - War of the League of Cambrai: Scotland declares war on England.
  • 16 August - War of the League of Cambrai: Henry VIII leads his troops to victory over the French at the Battle of Guinegate.
  • 9 September - War of the League of Cambrai: At the Battle of Flodden Field, King James IV of Scotland is defeated and killed by an English army under Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey.
  • 24 September - War of the League of Cambrai: The city of Tournai surrenders to England.
• 1514
  • April - War of the League of Cambrai: Henry VIII declares a truce with France.
  • June - Henry Grace a Dieu, at over 1,000 tons the largest warship in the world at the time, is launched.
  • 15 September - Thomas Wolsey is appointed Archbishop of York.
  • 9 October - Marriage of Louis XII of France and Mary Tudor.
  • Trinity House established in London.
  • Construction of Wolsey's York House in London begins.
• 1515
  • 2 July - Manchester Grammar School endowed by Hugh Oldham, the first free grammar school in England.
  • 10 September - Thomas Wolsey invested as a Cardinal.
  • 24 December - Wolsey is named the Lord Chancellor.
  • Wolsey commissions the rebuilding of Hampton Court Palace.
  • Structural completion of King's College Chapel, Cambridge.
• 1516
  • Thomas More's Utopia published.
  • Gillingham School founded in Dorset.
• 1517
  • 1 May - Evil May Day riots in London against foreigners.
  • Corpus Christi College, Oxford, established by Richard Foxe.
  • A third epidemic of sweating sickness hits Oxford and Cambridge.
• 1518
  • October 3 - Cardinal Wolsey's Treaty of London is signed by France, England, the Holy Roman Empire, the Papacy, Spain, Burgundy and the Netherlands allying the European powers against the Ottoman Empire.
  • Royal College of Physicians founded in London.
• 1519
  • May - Henry VIII stands as a candidate in the election of the Holy Roman Emperor.
  • 15 May - Official opening of Saint George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.
  • Henry VII's Chapel at Westminster Abbey completed.