 Text search
 Related images
 HistoryWorld
 Link
 Map
Click the icons to visit linked content. Hover to see the search terms. |
|  |
| | | | | | | |
|
| 1503 |
| | | The marriage of James IV, king of Scotland, to Margaret Tudor, daughter of Henry VII, leads a century later to the Union of the Crowns | |
| |
|
| 1509 |
| | | On the death of his father, and as the result of the death of his elder brother Arthur, Henry VIII becomes king of England | |
|  | Holbein, style of Henry VIII (detail)
National Maritime Museum
|
|
|
| 1510 |
| | | Erasmus and Thomas More take the northern Renaissance in the direction of Christian humanism | |
| |
|
| 1511 |
| | | The earliest surviving curling stone, discovered in Scotland, dates from this year | |
| |
|
| 1513 |
| | | James IV of Scotland dies at Flodden, in the disastrous defeat of his army by the English | |
| |
|
| 1513 |
| | | On the death of his father at Flodden, the one-year-old James V becomes king of Scotland | |
| |
|
| 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
|
|
|
| 1516 |
| | | Catherine of Aragon gives birth to a daughter, Mary, who becomes the only one of her six children to live beyond infancy | |
| |
|
| 1524 |
| | | William Tyndale studies in the university at Wittenberg and plans to translate the Bible into English | |
| |
|
| 1526 |
| | | Hans Holbein the Younger pays his first visit to England, and stays with Thomas More in Chelsea | |
| |
|
| | | | | |
| |