Henry VIII breaks with Rome
The king heads the Church himself — Anglicanism is born
Denied a papal annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII passed the Act of Supremacy in 1534 and became head of the Church of England. The dissolution of the monasteries and seizure of their lands followed.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1526 Battle of Mohács — 8 years earlier
- 1547 Ivan IV crowned Tsar — 13 years later
- 1555–1561 Saint Basil's Cathedral — 21 years later
Middle East
- 1520–1566 Reign of Suleiman the Magnificent — 14 years earlier
Africa
- 1529–1543 Ahmad Gragn invades Ethiopia — 5 years earlier
Asia
- 1511 Portuguese capture of Malacca — 23 years earlier
- 1526 First Battle of Panipat — 8 years earlier
- 1556 Shaanxi earthquake — 22 years later
- 1556 Akbar and the Second Battle of Panipat — 22 years later
Americas
- 1519–1522 Magellan's circumnavigation — 15 years earlier
- 1521 Fall of Tenochtitlan — 13 years earlier
- 1532 Capture of Atahualpa at Cajamarca — 2 years earlier
- 1542 Orellana sails down the Amazon — 8 years later
- 1545–1548 Cocoliztli epidemic — 11 years later
Alive at the time
- Nicolaus Copernicus (aged 61)
- Michelangelo (aged 59)
- Martin Luther (aged 51)
- Ivan the Terrible (aged 4)
- Elizabeth I (aged 1)
- Guru Nanak (aged 65)
- Bartolomé de las Casas (aged 50)
- Hernán Cortés (aged 49)
- Henry VIII (aged 43)
- Suleiman the Magnificent (aged 40)