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.

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