1510s in England

• Monarch – Henry VIII • Regent – Catherine, Queen Consort (starting 30 June, until 22 October 1513) ==Events==

• 1510 • c. January – Erasmus begins his period of residence in Cambridge. • 21 January – Parliament grants Henry VIII generous tax subsidies. • 17 August – Richard Empson and Edmund Dudley executed for "constructive treason". • 17 November – the Treaty of Westminster signed between England and Spain forming an alliance against France. • March – Parliament authorises a new poll tax to pay for the War of the League of Cambrai. • 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. • July – War of the League of Cambrai: Scotland declares war on England, • 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. • 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 • 1515 • 2 July – Manchester Grammar School endowed by Hugh Oldham, the first free grammar school in England. • 10 September – Thomas Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal (Catholic Church). • 1516 • Gillingham School founded in Dorset. • c. December – Thomas More's Utopia is first published (in Latin at Leuven). • August – construction of the Manchester Grammar School is completed. • 23 September – Royal College of Physicians founded in London. ==Births==

• 1510 • 6 October • John Caius, physician (died 1573) • Rowland Taylor, Protestant martyr (died 1555) • 28 December – Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper (died 1579) • 1511 • 1 January – Henry, Duke of Cornwall, eldest son of Henry VIII (died 22 February) • 1512 • August ? – Catherine Parr, queen consort (died 1548) • Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln, admiral (died 1585) • 1513 • 23 December – Thomas Smith, scholar and diplomat (died 1577) • Elizabeth Seymour, sister-in-law of Henry VIII (died 1563) • Thomas Watson, Catholic bishop (died 1584) • 1514 • 16 June – John Cheke, classical scholar and statesman (died 1557) • 1515 • 15 June – Anne Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, born Anne Parr (died 1552) • 22 September – Anne of Cleves, German-born fourth queen of Henry VIII (died 1557) • 8 October – Margaret Douglas, member of the royal family, diplomat (died 1578) • approx. date • Roger Ascham, scholar and didactic writer (died 1568) • William Baldwin, writer, editor and theatrical director (died c.1563) • Leonard Digges, mathematician and surveyor (died c.1559) • Thomas Seckford, lawyer and royal court official (died 1587) • Edward Sutton, 4th Baron Dudley (died 1586) • 1516 • 18 February – Queen Mary I of England (died 1558) • approx. date – Laurence Nowell, antiquarian (died 1571) • 1517 • 17 January – Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, politician and courtier (executed 1554) • 16 July – Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk, granddaughter of Henry VII (died 1559) • approx. date – Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, aristocrat and poet (executed 1547) • 1518 • approx. date – Edmund Plowden, legal scholar (died 1585) • 1519 • c. 15 June – Henry FitzRoy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset, illegitimate son of Henry VIII (died 1536) • approx. date • Thomas Gresham, merchant and financier (died 1579) • Nicholas Grimald, poet (died 1562) • Edwin Sandys, bishop (died 1588) ==Deaths==

• 1510 • 17 August • Edmund Dudley, statesman, executed (born c. 1462 or 1471/2) • Richard Empson, statesman, executed (year of birth unknown) • 1511 • 11 February – Henry, Duke of Cornwall, eldest son of Henry VIII (born 1 January) • 1513 • 10 March – John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, general (born 1443) • 30 April – Edmund de la Pole, 3rd Duke of Suffolk, executed (born c. 1471) • 27 October – George Manners, 11th Baron Ros, nobleman (year of birth unknown) • Robert Fabyan, chronicler (year of birth unknown) • 1514 • 2 January – William Smyth, bishop and statesman (born 1460) • December – Henry, Duke of Cornwall, third son of Henry VIII (stillborn) • 1516 • 25 April – John Yonge, diplomat (born 1467) • 1518 • 20 November – Marmaduke Constable, soldier (born c. 1455) • 1519 • 10 September – John Colet, churchman and educator (born 1467) • William Grocyn, scholar (born 1446) ==References==