1510s in England

Incumbents

• Monarch – Henry VIII
• Regent – Catherine, Queen Consort
• Parliament – 1st of King Henry VIII, 2nd of King Henry VIII, 3rd of King Henry VIII

  Events

• 1510
• * c. January – Erasmus begins his period of residence in Cambridge.
• * 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'.
• 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.
• * 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.
• * 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.
• * 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, in breach of the Treaty of Perpetual Peace.
• * 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, 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.
• * 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.
• * 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.
• * 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 as part of the peace with France.
• 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
• * Gillingham School founded in Dorset.
• * c. December – Thomas More's Utopia is first published.
• 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
• * 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.

  Births

• 1510
• * 6 October
• **John Caius, physician
• ** Rowland Taylor, Protestant martyr
• * 28 December – Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper
• 1511
• * 1 January – Henry, Duke of Cornwall, eldest son of Henry VIII of England
• 1512
• * August ? – Catherine Parr, queen consort
• * Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln, admiral
• 1513
• * 23 December – Thomas Smith, scholar and diplomat
• * Elizabeth Seymour, sister-in-law of Henry VIII
• * Thomas Watson, Catholic bishop
• 1514
• * 16 June – John Cheke, classical scholar and statesman
• * December – Henry, Duke of Cornwall, third son of Henry VIII
• 1515
• * 15 June – Anne Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, born Anne Parr
• * 22 September – Anne of Cleves, German-born fourth queen of Henry VIII
• * approx. date
• **Roger Ascham, scholar and didactic writer
• ** William Baldwin, writer, editor and theatrical director
• ** Leonard Digges, mathematician and surveyor
• ** Thomas Seckford, lawyer and royal court official
• 1516
• * 18 February – Queen Mary I of England
• * approx. date – Laurence Nowell, antiquarian
• 1517
• * 16 July – Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk, granddaughter of Henry VII
• * approx. date – Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, aristocrat
• 1518
• *approx. date – Edmund Plowden, legal scholar
• 1519
• *approx. date
• **Thomas Gresham, merchant and financier
• ** Nicholas Grimald, poet
• ** Edwin Sandys, bishop

  Deaths

• 1510
• * 17 August
• **Edmund Dudley, statesman
• ** Richard Empson, statesman
• 1511
• * 11 February – Henry, Duke of Cornwall, eldest son of Henry VIII of England
• 1513
• * 10 March – John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, general
• * 30 April – Edmund de la Pole, 3rd Duke of Suffolk
• * 27 October – George Manners, 11th Baron de Ros, nobleman
• * Robert Fabyan, chronicler
• 1514
• * 2 January – William Smyth, bishop and statesman
• * December – Henry, Duke of Cornwall, third son of Henry VIII of England
• 1516
• * 25 April – John Yonge, diplomat
• 1518
• * 20 November – Marmaduke Constable, soldier
• 1519
• * 10 September – John Colet, churchman and educator
• * William Grocyn, scholar