16 February –
Thetford Priory is closed down as part of the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
23 March –
Waltham Abbey is the last abbey to close as part of the Dissolution of the Monasteries.[3] Composer
Thomas Tallis, a musician here, moves to Canterbury Cathedral.
April – the cathedral priories of
Canterbury and
Rochester are transformed into secular cathedral chapters, concluding the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
June – Anne of Cleves is banished from court to
Richmond Palace.
9 July – Henry's marriage to Anne of Cleves is annulled.[3] She is given a generous settlement with several residences in England, is referred to as "the King's Beloved Sister" and will outlive him and all his other wives.
Publication of The Byrth of Mankynde, the first printed book in
English on
obstetrics, and one of the first published in England to include engraved plates.[6]
John Brooke and Sons established at
Armitage Bridge in West Yorkshire as textile manufacturers; the business will still exist in family hands into the 21st century.[11]
April – posthumous publication of Cardinal
John Fisher's Psalmi seu precationes in the original and in an anonymous English translation by its sponsor, Queen
Catherine Parr.[13]
29 May – publication of
Catherine Parr's Prayers or Meditations, the first book published by an English queen under her own name, and the King's Primer, another devotional work overseen by her.[13]
18–19 July –
Battle of the Solent between English and French fleets. On 19 July, Henry VIII's flagship, the Mary Rose, sinks[2] but the French are unable to land on the English mainland.
7 September – the funeral of dowager queen
Catherine Parr, widow of Sir Thomas Seymour, in the chapel at
Sudeley Castle (Gloucestershire) is the first in the British Isles to be held in the
English language.[15]
Beverley Minster in Yorkshire is suppressed as a collegiate church on Easter Sunday.[16]
Howden Minster in Yorkshire is suppressed as a collegiate church.
Destruction of the religious colleges of
Glasney and
Crantock in
Cornwall end the formal scholarship that has helped sustain the
Cornish language and cultural identity.
5 December – Cardinal
Reginald Pole receives 26 votes at the
Papal conclave, only two short of the requisite two-thirds majority to be elected as Pope.
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