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| 1514 |
| | | Thomas Wolsey begins to build himself a palace at Hampton Court, but will later consider it politic to give it to Henry VIII | |
|  | Hampton Court west front, chromolithograph
Richmond Local Studies
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| 1516 |
| | | Catherine of Aragon gives birth to a daughter, Mary, who becomes the only one of her six children to live beyond infancy | |
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| 1524 |
| | | William Tyndale studies in the university at Wittenberg and plans to translate the Bible into English | |
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| 1526 |
| | | Hans Holbein the Younger pays his first visit to England, and stays with Thomas More in Chelsea | |
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| 1528 |
| | | Discussion of Henry VIII's proposed divorce hinges on rival verses from the Old Testament, in Deuteronomy and Leviticus | |
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| 1528 |
| | | In a desperate attempt to retain royal favour, when suspected by the king of opposing his divorce, Cardinal Wolsey gives his spectacular Hampton Court Palace to Henry VIII | |
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| 1529 |
| | | After the fall of Wolsey, Henry VIII appoints Thomas More as his Lord Chancellor | |
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| 1533 |
| | | Thomas Cranmer, the archbishop of Canterbury, declares Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon null and void | |
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| 1533 |
| | | Anne Boleyn has a child (the future Elizabeth I) but not of the sex her husband wants | |
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| 1534 |
| | | Henry VIII's Act of Supremacy forces prominent figures in English public life to accept him on oath as head of the Church of England | |
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