1520s in England

• Monarch – Henry VIII • Regent – Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk (starting 31 May, until 16 July 1520) ==Events==

• 1520 • 26–31 May – Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (and Queen Catherine of Aragon's nephew) visits King Henry VIII at Dover and Canterbury. • 7–24 June – King Henry VIII and King Francis I of France meet at the Field of the Cloth of Gold. • Muster rolls are compiled in the counties. • 1523 • April – Thomas More elected Speaker of the House of Commons. • 1525 • 4 June – 1525 Bayham Abbey riot: villagers riot and occupy Bayham Old Abbey in Kent for a week in protest against Cardinal Thomas Wolsey's order to suppress the monastery on the grounds of financial mismanagement and in order to fund colleges founded by him; 31 men are arrested. • June – the Amicable Grant, a form of poll tax imposed without the consent of Parliament, is abandoned. • 10 October – a preliminary agreement for a 3-year peace with Scotland is signed at Berwick-upon-Tweed. • 24–25 December – English Reformation: Robert Barnes preaches an openly evangelical sermon at the church of St Edward King and Martyr, Cambridge, accusing the Catholic Church of heresy. • William Tyndale's New Testament Bible translation into English is made which will still be functioning in situ 500 years later. • 1526 • Spring – William Tyndale's English translation of the Bible reaches England, • 30 April – by the Treaty of Westminster, Cardinal Wolsey signs an alliance between England and France. • 1528 • 22 January – Henry VIII and Francis I of France declare war on Emperor Charles V. • 27 August – Henry VIII accedes to the Treaty of Cambrai. • 26 October – Cardinal Wolsey falls from power due to his failure to prevent Habsburg expansion in Europe and obtain a divorce for Henry VIII. Thomas More succeeds him as Lord Chancellor. • 4 November–17 December – first sitting of the Reformation Parliament. • Aylesbury is made the county town of Buckinghamshire by the King. ==Births==

• 1520 • 13 September – William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, statesman (died 1598) • 1521 • Anne Askew, Protestant martyr (burned at the stake 1546) • John Aylmer, bishop (died 1594) • Thomas Chaloner, statesman and poet (died 1565) • Philippe de Monte, composer (died 1603) • Thomas Wyatt the younger, rebel (beheaded 1554) • 1522 • 24 May – John Jewel, bishop (died 1571) • 1524 • Thomas Tusser, poet and farmer (died 1580) • 1525 • 25 March – Richard Edwardes, choral musician, playwright and poet (died 1566) • 25 September – Steven Borough, explorer (died 1584) • 1526 • 4 March – Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon (died 1596) • 23 September – Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire (died 1563) • 1527 • 28 March – Isabella Markham, courtier (died 1579) • 13 July – John Dee, mathematician, astronomer, and geographer (died 1608) • Approximate date – John Dudley, 2nd Earl of Warwick (died 1554) • 1525/7? – Lawrence Humphrey, clergyman and educator (died 1590) • 1528 • c. 1522/28 – George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, statesman (died 1590) • 1529 • 20 July – Henry Sidney, lord deputy of Ireland (died 1586) ==Deaths==

• 1521 • 17 May – Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham (executed) (born 1478) • 22 October – Edward Poyning, Lord Deputy to King Henry VII of England (born 1459) • 1522 • 25 February – William Lilye, classical scholar (born c. 1468) • 6 April – Henry Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, nobleman (born 1479) • 1523 • 24 May – Henry Marney, 1st Baron Marney, politician (born 1447) • October – William Cornysh, composer (born 1465) • Stephen Hawes, poet (born 1502) • 1524 • 21 May – Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, soldier and statesman (born 1443) • 24 August – William Scott of Scott's Hall, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (year of birth unknown) • 20 December – Thomas Linacre, humanist and physician (born 1460) • 1525 • 24 February – Richard de la Pole, last Yorkist claimant to the throne (killed in battle) (year of birth unknown) • 22 July – Richard Wingfield, diplomat (born c. 1456) • 1526 • 1 February – Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester (born 1460) • 1527 • May – Thomas Docwra, Grand Prior of the Knights Hospitaller (born 1458) • 15 November – Catherine of York, aunt of Henry VIII (born 1479) • Jane Shore, mistress of King Edward IV of England (born c. 1445) • 1528 • 5 October – Richard Foxe, churchman (born c. 1448) • 1529 • 21 June – John Skelton, English poet (born c. 1460) • c. December – Richard Pynson, printer (born c. 1449 in Normandy) ==References==