1510s in England

none Events from the 1510s in England. Incumbents Monarch – Henry VIII Regent – Catherine, Queen Consort (starting 30 June, until 22 October 1513)Powicke F. Maurice Fryde E. B. Handbook of British Chronology 1961 2nd London Butler & Tanner Ltd. 39 Events 1510 c. January – Erasmus begins his period of residence in Cambridge.ERSS465D Erasmus, Desiderius 21 January – Parliament grants Henry VIII generous tax subsidies. 31 January – Catherine of Aragon miscarries her first child, a daughter, at about six months gestation; told she is still carrying a twin, she prepares for a birth in March–April but there is no child.Queen Katharine: 1510 British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/spain/supp/vols1-2/pp34-44 2021-04-12 17 August – Richard Empson and Edmund Dudley executed for "constructive treason". 1511 1 January – Catherine of Aragon gives birth to Henry VIII's eldest son, Henry, Duke of Cornwall, at Richmond Palace but he dies on 22 February. 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.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/197 registration London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 197–204 17 November – the Treaty of Westminster signed between England and Spain forming an alliance against France. Archery Act 1511 (3 Hen. 8. c. 3) 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. Major fire at Sherston, Wiltshire. 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.aep/Hen8/4/8 "Strode's Act" 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. Woolwich Dockyard established for the Royal Navy. Boys aged from 7 upwards are required to be instructed in archery.The Statutes of the Realm. 3:2-3. 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. 11 June – Henry appoints Catherine of Aragon as Regent, Governor and Captain General in England while he campaigns in France.Thomas Rymer Thomas Rymer https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_puq9VL1_2O8C/page/n385/mode/2up Foedera 13 London 1712 370 July – War of the League of Cambrai: Scotland declares war on England, in breach of the Treaty of Perpetual Peace. 25 July – Scotland's Earl of Arran departs from the Firth of Forth with 22 ships on a plan to join France in cutting off England's communications with the rest of Europe. 16 August – War of the League of Cambrai: Henry VIII leads his troops to victory over French cavalry at the Battle of the Spurs (Second Battle of Guinegate) in Artois. 23 August – Thérouanne in the north of France is given to Henry VIII after a treaty is concluded in the aftermath of the Battle of the Spurs.Henry VIII: August 1513, 21-31 https://www.british-history.ac.uk/letters-papers-hen8/vol1/pp984-997 www.british-history.ac.uk 2023-07-15 9 September – War of the League of Cambrai: at the Battle of Flodden, King James IV of Scotland is defeated and killed by an English army under Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey. Catherine of Aragon learns of this victory while near Buckingham, having ridden north from London to address a speech of encouragement to troops gathering to march to Scotland. c. 17 September – Catherine of Aragon delivers a son who either miscarries, is stillborn or lives only a few hours.Henry VIII: September 1513, 21–30 British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/letters-papers-hen8/vol1/pp1023-1042 2023-04-12 24 September – War of the League of Cambrai: the city of Tournai surrenders to England. Deptford Dockyard established for the Royal Navy. 1514 April – Henry VIII declares a truce with France in the War of the League of Cambrai. 20 May – Trinity House is established as a guild of mariners at Deptford to regulate pilotage. June – Battle of Hornshole in the Scottish Borders: young men from Hawick defeat a raiding party from England.Hornshole Battle Site http://www.discovertheborders.co.uk/places/154.html Discover the Borders 2013-08-06 2008-05-09 https://web.archive.org/web/20080509131213/http://www.discovertheborders.co.uk/places/154.html dead 13 June – Henry Grace à Dieu, at over 1,000 tons the largest warship in the world at this time, built at the new Woolwich Dockyard, is dedicated at Erith.Lincoln P. Paine 1997 Ships of the World: an Historical Encyclopedia Houghton Mifflin 0-85177-739-2Henry Grace à Dieu. 7 August – Henry VIII concludes an independent peace treaty with France in the War of the League of Cambrai, negotiated by Thomas Wolsey. 15 September – Thomas Wolsey is appointed Archbishop of York and begins to build York House in London. 9 October – marriage of Louis XII of France and Mary Tudor (sister of Henry VIII) as part of the peace with France. November/December – Catherine of Aragon delivers a stillborn son of Henry VIII.Henry VIII: December 1514, 26–30 British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/letters-papers-hen8/vol1/pp1485-1503#highlight-first 2021-04-12 1515 2 July – Manchester Grammar School endowed by Hugh Oldham, the first free grammar school in England. 10 September – Thomas Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal (Catholic Church). 24 December – Wolsey is named the Lord Chancellor. Wolsey commissions the rebuilding of Hampton Court Palace. Structural completion of King's College Chapel, Cambridge.Ian Sutton Architecture, from Ancient Greece to the Present London Thames & Hudson 1999 978-0-500-20316-3 registration https://archive.org/details/westernarchitect00sutt 1516 Gillingham School founded in Dorset. c. December – Thomas More's Utopia is first published (in Latin at Leuven). 1517 1 March – Corpus Christi College, Oxford, established by Richard Foxe. 1 May – Evil May Day riots in London against foreigners. A third epidemic of sweating sickness hits Oxford and Cambridge. 1518 18 February – Catherine of Aragon gives birth to the King's daughter, who will become queen regnant Mary I of England, at the Palace of Placentia, Greenwich.BBC - History - Historic Figures: Mary I (1516-1558) https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/mary_i_queen.shtml 2019-03-27 August – construction of the Manchester Grammar School is completed. 23 September – Royal College of Physicians founded in London. 3 October – 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. 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.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 139–142 0-7126-5616-2 Births 1510 6 October John Caius, physician (died 1573) Rowland Taylor, Protestant martyr (died 1555) 28 December – Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper (died 1579) 1511 1 January – Henry, Duke of Cornwall, eldest son of Henry VIII (died 22 February) 1512 August ? – Catherine Parr, queen consort (died 1548) Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln, admiral (died 1585) 1513 23 December – Thomas Smith, scholar and diplomat (died 1577) Elizabeth Seymour, sister-in-law of Henry VIII (died 1563) Thomas Watson, Catholic bishop (died 1584) 1514 16 June – John Cheke, classical scholar and statesman (died 1557) 1515 15 June – Anne Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, born Anne Parr (died 1552) 22 September – Anne of Cleves, German-born fourth queen of Henry VIII (died 1557) 8 October – Margaret Douglas, member of the royal family, diplomat (died 1578) approx. date Roger Ascham, scholar and didactic writer (died 1568) William Baldwin, writer, editor and theatrical director (died c.1563) Leonard Digges, mathematician and surveyor (died c.1559) Thomas Seckford, lawyer and royal court official (died 1587) Edward Sutton, 4th Baron Dudley (died 1586) 1516 18 February – Queen Mary I of England (died 1558) approx. date – Laurence Nowell, antiquarian (died 1571) 1517 17 January – Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, politician and courtier (executed 1554) 16 July – Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk, granddaughter of Henry VII (died 1559) approx. date – Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, aristocrat and poet (executed 1547) 1518 approx. date – Edmund Plowden, legal scholar (died 1585) 1519 c. 15 June – Henry FitzRoy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset, illegitimate son of Henry VIII (died 1536) approx. date Thomas Gresham, merchant and financier (died 1579) Nicholas Grimald, poet (died 1562) Edwin Sandys, bishop (died 1588) Deaths 1510 17 August Edmund Dudley, statesman, executed (born c. 1462 or 1471/2) Richard Empson, statesman, executed (year of birth unknown) 1511 11 February – Henry, Duke of Cornwall, eldest son of Henry VIII (born 1 January) 1513 10 March – John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, general (born 1443) 30 April – Edmund de la Pole, 3rd Duke of Suffolk, executed (born c. 1471) 27 October – George Manners, 11th Baron Ros, nobleman (year of birth unknown) Robert Fabyan, chronicler (year of birth unknown) 1514 2 January – William Smyth, bishop and statesman (born 1460) December – Henry, Duke of Cornwall, third son of Henry VIII (stillborn) 1516 25 April – John Yonge, diplomat (born 1467) 1518 20 November – Marmaduke Constable, soldier (born c. 1455) 1519 10 September – John Colet, churchman and educator (born 1467) William Grocyn, scholar (born 1446) References