1530s in England
overview of England-related events during the 1530s
Events from the 1530s in England.
Incumbents
Monarch – Henry VIII
Events
1530
26 January – Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, becomes Keeper of the Privy Seal.
January – the first printed translation of the Torah into English, by William Tyndale, is published in Antwerp for distribution in Britain.
6 February – Charles Brandon becomes Lord President of the Council.
31 March – Parliament of England passes the Egyptians Act in an attempt to expel Gypsies.
4 November – Cardinal Wolsey is arrested as a traitor for secretly communicating with Pope Clement VII. He dies on 29 November around the age of 57 at Leicester while en route to London to face the charge.
1531
11 February – Henry VIII is declared Supreme Head of the Church of England.
31 March – Vagabonds Act 1530 (An Act directing how aged, poor and impotent Persons, compelled to live by Alms, shall be ordered; and how Vagabonds and Beggars shall be punished), first of the Tudor poor laws, receives royal assent, requiring registration of all genuine beggars with local Justices of Peace; unlicensed beggars to be whipped or pilloried.
July – Queen Catherine of Aragon is ordered to leave Windsor and go into exile in a succession of country residences and she is permanently separated from her daughter, Mary, who is moved to Richmond Palace.
Sir Thomas Elyot's treatise The Boke Named the Governour is published, the first English work concerning moral philosophy.
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