2009/2010
Dr hab. Jakub Basista basista@chello.pl
http://members.upcpoczta.pl/basista/
Lecture 6
160 – first church built in England (?) at Glastonbury
200 – according to Eusebius Christianity had penetrated Britain
304 – martyrdom of St Alban (Roma legionary)
314 – three bishops: London, York and possibly Lincoln (or Colchester) attend Council of
Arles
415 – possible date of St Patrick’s birth, who is captured and enslaved by the Irish; around
450 he returns to Ireland as bishop to convert it c. 493 – death of St Patrick c. 540 – the monk Gildas writes his The Ruin of Britain c. 550 – St David’s mission in Wales
560 – Æthelberht being the first English king who has converted becomes ruler of Kent
563 – St Columba (Irish bishop) builds monastery of Iona as a base for mission among Picts – it becomes centre of Celtic Church
596 – St Augustine’s mission sets out for England
597 – St Augustine arrives in Kent and teaches; 601 he is made Archbishop of Canterbury c. 604-9 – St Augustine dies
597 – death of St Columba
631 – Synod of Mag Lene in southern Ireland
634/5 – foundation of monastery of Lindisfarne (by Aidan) and northern English Church
664 – Synod of Whitby settles differences between Celtic and Roman Churches (question of date of Easter, but also two church traditions)
669 – appointment of Theodore of Tarsus as Archbishop of Canterbury
672 – Synod of Hertford giving authority over all English Church to Canterbury
716 – Iona adopts Roman Easter
731 – Bede writes his Ecclesiastical History of the English People
735 – death of Bede
793 – Vikings sack Lindisfarne
806 – Vikings raid Iona
10th/11th c. – Viking raids – huge losses of the Church
1066 – Norman invasion
1070 – consecration of Lanfranc as Archbishop of Canterbury
1080 – William the Conqueror refuses to pay homage to the Pope for his English Crown

1093 – consecration of Anselm as Archbishop of Canterbury (forced to retire to Rome in
1097, dies 1109) – one of the most eminent theologians of his time
1100 – charter of Liberties granted by Henry I among others to to the Church
1107 – Concordat of Westminster settles problem of investiture
10th c. – 1536 – time of development of monasticism in England (Benedictines 1070; Cluniac
House 1077; Augustinians 1100; Templar Knights 1128; Cistercians 1132; Premonstratesians
1143; Friars 1221)
1155 – Becket as Chancellor
1162 – Becket elected Archbishop of Canterbury
1164 – Becket in exile after rejecting Constitutions of Clarendon
1170 – Becket murdered
1173 – Becket canonised; Henry’s penance on Tomas’s tomb (1174)
1189 – death of Henry II
1208 – interdict on England (conflict over the election of the Archbishop of Canterbury)
1209 – excommunication of king John
1213 – peace with the Pope Innocent III
1215 – Fourth Lateran Council (at least one communion a year after confession)
1215 – Stephen Langton (bishop since 1207) exiled; returns 1218
1309-77 – Papacy at Avignon
1378-1418 – the Great Schism of the papacy c. 1330-1385 – John Wycliffe; 1382 – Wycliffe’s doctrines condemned
1337-1453 – the Hundred Years War
1347-50 – Black Death
1414-18 – Council of Constance
1401 – statute De Heretico Comburendo
1413 – the Oldcastle Revolt (Lollards) suppressed by Henry V
1472 – consecration of York Minster
1521 – Henry VIII becomes Defender of the Faith
1529-36 –
Seven Years’ Parliament
1530 – death of Wolsey
1531 – Thomas Cranmer becomes Archbishop of Canterbury
1532-33 – Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn
1533 – annulment of Henry VIII’s marriage with Catherine of Aragon
1534 – Act of Supremacy
1536 – Ten Articles dissolution of lesser monasteries
Pilgrimage of Grace
1538 – Royal Injunctions for English Bible in churches
1539 – Six Articles dissolving of greater monasteries
1540 – execution of Thomas Cromwell
1542 – Act for the Advancement of True Religion
1544 – English Litany published and authorised
1547 – death of Henry VIII
1547 – radical Protestant programme
1548 – English Order of Communion
1549 – first full English Prayer Book (Act of Uniformity)
1550 – all stone altars destroyed and replaced by wooden tables
Cranmer’s ordinal (priests replaced by pastor and teacher)
1552 – second Prayer Book

1553 – Forty-Two Articles of the Church of England
1553-1558 – Mary Tudor
1554 – Injunctions to the Bishops repealing all reform
1556 – Thomas Cranmer burnt at the stake; Reginal Pole becomes Archbishop of Canterbury
1558 – Elizabeth I after Mary’s death; Pole dies
1559 – Prayer Book replaces Latin mass as the only legal liturgy
1560 – the Geneva Bible is translated into English (by William Whittingham)
1563 – publication of John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments
1563 – Thirty-Nine Articles
1564 – problems with Puritans, who refuse to wear the surplice
1570 – excommunication and deposing of Elizabeth by Pius V
1570 – Thomas Cartwright’s Cambridge lectures advocate Presbyterianism
1571 – the Parliament passes laws against Catholics: Treason Act, Act prohibiting the bringing and execution of papal bulls; Act against Fugitives Over the Sea
1580-81 – Jesuits Edmund Campion and Robert Persons enter England (Campion is executed)
1581 – anti Catholic bills: [1] Act to Retain the Queen’s Majesty’s Subjects in Their True
Obedience; [2] Act Against Seditious Words and Rumours Uttered against the Queen’s Most
Excellent Majesty
1584, 1586 – Puritan campaign in the Parliament
1588-89 – Marprelate Tracts
1590-91 – trial of Puritans in High Commission and Star Chamber
1592 – preface and first four books of Laws of Ecclesiastical Policy by Richard Hooker are completed (last books published in 1648, 1661)
1604 – Hampton Court Conference
1611 – publication of the authorised version of the Bible
1633 – William Laud appointed Archbishop of Canterbury
1630s – Laudian Arminianism
1637 – Laud tries to introduce change in Scottish Church
1637 – First Bishops’ War
1641 – a Bill is introduced to abolish episcopacy
1643 – Solemn League and Covenant ratified in England
1645 – Parliament orders the abolition of Prayer Book and its replacement with the Directory of Public Worship
1645 – execution of William Laud
1646 – Parliament abolishes the episcopate
1660 – restoration of episcopacy
1661 – Corporation Act (excludes dissidents from local government)
1662 – reformed Prayer Book; Act of Uniformity
1673, 1678 – Test Acts
1689 – Toleration Act grants limited sufferance to Dissidents
1701 – Act of Settlement excludes Catholics from throne
1719 – repeal of Occasional Conformity and Schism Acts – more concessions to Dissidents
1738 – birth of Methodism (John Wesley)
1778 – first Catholic Relief Act
1799 – Church Missionary Society founded
1803 – Bible Society founded
1828 – abolition of Test and Corporation Acts
1829 – Catholic emancipation
1836 – civil marriage legalised
1843 – Church of Scotland divides; a Free Church is set up

1844 – Dissenters Chapels’ Act
1845 – John Henry Newman joins Roman Catholic Church
1850 – restoration of Roman Catholic hierarchy
1851 – first religious census
1858 – Jews admitted to Parliament
1871 – University Test Act ends Anglican control of the ancient universities
1880 – Burials Act opens parish graveyards to Dissenters
1970 – General Synod set up
1982 – Papal visit
1994 – first women priested (after permission of 1992)