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Historical Timeline of
Sir Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex

c.1485 Born at Putney in Surrey
1503 - 28 December Serves as a soldier with the French army when they are defeated by the Spanish at the Battle of Garigliano in Italy
c.1512 Works as a secretary to English merchants based in Antwerp in the Low Countries
Before 1516 Marries Elizabeth Wykes, daughter of a clothworker in Putney. A son, Gregory, is born
1520 Advises Cardinal Thomas Wolsey in legal matters, and members of the nobility on financial issues
1523 Becomes a Member of Parliament under Wolsey's patronage
1524 Admitted as a lawyer at Gray's Inn and becomes Wolsey's solicitor and counsellor
1525 - 4 January Appointed to investigate five small monasteries to establish their wealth, and becomes Wolsey's agent in their suppression
1526 - 1529 Suppression of 29 'decayed' minor monasteries and priories to fund Cardinal Wolsey's foundation of two colleges at Oxford and Ipswich
1527 - October Purchases the manor of Tolleshunt D'Arcy n Essex; his accumulation of lands and property has begun
1528 or 1529 His wife Elizabeth and his two daughters--Anne and Grace--all die. Their deaths are probably due to the sweating sickness epidemic (Thomas is aged c. 44)
1529 - 9 October The fall of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey
1529 - 3 November Becomes Member of Parliament for Taunton
1530 Enters the service of King Henry VIII as parliamentary manager and ad hoc legal advisor
1539 - 29 November Cardinal Thomas Wolsey dies
1531 - January Sworn in as junior member of the King's Council
1532 Appointed Receiver General. Also becomes supervisor of the lands at Oxford belonging to Wolsey's former Cardinal's College
1532 - March Commons passes 'Supplication Against the Ordinaries,' an anti-clerical petition
1532 - 14 April Appointed Master of the King's Jewel House (a shared position)
1532 - 16 July Appointed Clerk of the Hanaper and Master of the Court of Wards
1533 - 25 January King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn secretly marry at Westminster
1533 - March Act for Restraint of Appeals passed; it becomes the foundation stone of the English Reformation
1533 - 12 April Appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer
1533 - 23 May Archbishop Thomas Cranmer grants annulment of Henry and Queen Katherine of Aragon's marriage
1533 - 8 August Appointed Recorder of Bristol
1533 - 7 September Princess Elizabeth Tudor is born
1533 - 12 September Appointed Steward of Westminster Abbey
1534 - 27 February Appointed Joint Constable of Hertford Castle and Hertingfordbury, as well as Keeper of the Park there
1534 - 23 March First Act of Succession passed
1534 c. 15 April Appointed Chief Secretary to King Henry VIII
1534 - 20 April The Nun of Kent and her accomplices are executed
1534 - September Appointed Joint Constable of Berkeley Castle and Keeper of the Park, Master of the Game, and Keeper of the Woods
1534 - 8 October Appointed Master of the Rolls until July 10, 1536
1534 - 12 October Pope Paul III succeeds Pope Clement VII
1534 - November Act of Supremacy passed
1534 - 3 November Treasons Act passed
1535 - 1 January Appointed Vicar General and Visitor General of Religious Houses
1535 - 21 January King Henry VIII commissions a General Visitation of churches, monasteries and clergy in England and Wales
1535 - 4 May Execution of three Carthusian Priors, a Bridgettine priest, and another priest, all for denying Henry's Supremacy
1535 - 14 May Appointed Steward of the Manor of the Savoy and Bailiff of Enfield, Middlesex
Appointed Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
1535 - 16 May Appointed Steward and Bailiff of the Manors of Edmonton and Sayesbury, Middlesex
1535 - 20 May Pope Paul III creates Bishop John Fisher of Rochester a Cardinal
1535 - 19 June Three Carthusian monks executed for denying the King's Supremacy
1535 - 22 June Bishop John Fisher executed for treason
1535 - 6 July Sir Thomas More executed for treason
1536 -7 January Queen Katherine of Aragon dies
1536 - 24 January King Henry VIII injured in a jousting accident; five days later Anne Boleyn miscarries a male child
1536 - March Act for the Dissolution of Minor Monastic Houses is passed; it is supervised by Cromwell
1536 - 24 April Court of Augmentations set up to control the Dissolution
1536 - 17 May George Boleyn, Henry Norris, Francis Weston , Mark Smeaton, and William Brereton are executed for adultery (incest) with the Queen
Thomas Cranmer declares the marriage between Henry and Anne Boleyn nullified
1536 - 19 May Anne Boleyn is executed
1536 - 30 May Henry marries Jane Seymour
1536 - 9 June Appointed Chief Steward of the Manor of Writtle, Essex and Keeper of the Park
1536 - June Second Act of Succession passed
1536 - 1 July Appointed Keeper of the Privy Seal, with fees of 20 shillings a day
1536 - 9 July Created Baron Cromwell of Oakham
1536 - 18 July Appointed Vicar General and Vice Regent of the King in Spirituals (religious issues); also knighted
1536 - 2 October Start of the rebellions known as the Pilgrimage of Grace
1537 - January Rebellions are suppressed
1537 - 26 August Installed as a Knight of the Order of the Garter, at Windsor
1537 - September Appointed Dean of Wells Cathedral, Somerset
1537 - 12 October Prince Edward Tudor is born
1537 - 24 October Jane Seymour dies of puerperal fever
1537 - December Appointed Commissioner of the Peace for many Ridings; Warden and Chief Justice for all royal forests, parks, chases and warrens north of the Trent ;and Master of Deer Hunting in those forests
1538 - 22 May Execution of John Forrest for heresy at Smithfield
1538 - September Thomas Becket's shrine at Canterbury is looted and destroyed
1538 - November Appointed Captain of the Isle of Wight
1538 - 16 November Royal proclamation controlling the purchase and use of Bibles in English
1538 - 22 November Execution of John Lambert at Smithfield for heresy
1538 - 9 November Exeter, Montague and Nevill executed for treason
1538 - 17 December Pope Paul III prepares to promulgate Bull of Excomminucation against Henry
1539 - 4 January Appointed Constable of Leeds Castle, Kent
1539 - 12 January Francis I and Charles V sign the Treaty of Toledo
1539 - June Statute of Proclamations passed
1539 - 28 June Statute of Six Articles against Protestant practices is passed
1539 - July Dissolution of major religious houses begins
1539 - 6 October Agreement of marriage of Henry to Anne of Cleves
1539 - 14 November Execution of the Abbot of Reading for denying the King's Supremacy
1539 - 15 November Execution of the Abbot of Glastonbury for treason
1539 - 20 December More apppointments
1540 - 6 January Marriage of Henry to Anne of Cleves
Appointed Steward of the despoiled Monastery of Furness
1540 - 17 April Created Earl of Essex and Lord Great Chamberlain
1540 - 10 June Arrested at Privy Council meeting at Westminster
1540 - 9 July Marriage of Henry and Anne of Cleves dissolved
1540 - 28 July Beheaded on Tower Hill (aged c. 55)
Marriage of Henry VIII to Katherine Howard





Sources:
Robert Hutchinson's Thomas Cromwell. 2007







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