# Henry VIII A king, a parliament, and a block are the first facts about Henry VIII, not a Holbein costume. TNA at https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ and the dissolution file at https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-collection/explore-by-time-period/early-modern/the-dissolution-of-the-monasteries/ calendar monastic suppression as crown policy. UK Parliament at https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/private-lives/religion/collections/common-prayer/act-of-supremacy/ and legislation.gov.uk at https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ carry supremacy, appeals, and later official statute heritage. Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-VIII-king-of-England and BHO at https://www.british-history.ac.uk/ print the killings. HRP Tower at https://www.hrp.org.uk/tower-of-london/ presents the 1536 death-site. Those URLs are carriers. They are not 1534 autographs. Statutes as shared work: Cromwell drafted, Commons and Lords enacted, the king assented, unnamed commissioners visited. Complex is the honest contribution type on almost every legal row. Restraint of Appeals (1533) is not the Act of Supremacy (1534) and not the Treasons Act. Valor is a survey; Augmentations is a court; 1536 lesser houses and 1539 greater houses are different chapters. Six Articles is a penal doctrine, not the Great Bible. Fisher on 22 June and More on 6 July are different persons. Anne on 19 May 1536 is a killing whose sexual counts remain allegations. Catherine Howard in 1542 is another attainder, not a copy of 1536. Bible and Wales as offsets: the 1539 Great Bible at the British Library neighbourhood https://www.bl.uk/ is English scripture in churches, shared with Coverdale and Cromwell. The 1536 Laws in Wales Act as later official text is shire justice and Commons representation, not a Senedd. Trinity House at https://www.trinityhouse.co.uk/ and the College of Physicians at https://www.rcp.ac.uk/ are 1514 and 1518 capacity grants. Field of Cloth of Gold at https://www.hrp.org.uk/hampton-court-palace/history-and-stories/the-field-of-cloth-of-gold/ is a 1520 summit, not a rebate of 1544 Boulogne. The 1543 succession statute restores a public remainder including Mary and Elizabeth. The 1547 will transfers to Edward. Those offsets do not cancel the block. What the score must not say: that Henry typeset every chapter; that 1521 Defender of the Faith is 1534; that dissolution is only bookkeeping; that the Great Bible proves toleration; that Solway Moss is a unique body table; that a Holbein workshop panel is a civil photograph; that Cromwell’s fall unpaid More’s death. Neighbouring Person articles already on the graph — Anne’s Tower file, Elizabeth’s settlement, [Luther](/people/martin-luther)’s 1520s–1543 Bible neighbourhood — are relations of dynasty and of the European print-Reformation, not factory lists. 1509 is not 1534. 1535 is not 1539. 1540 Cleves is not 1540 Cromwell. Confidence is high on statutes, calendars, and execution dates; medium on unique war and fiscal coefficients; low on bedroom files. Remaining dated instruments kept after dropping later editions, museums, and split rows: 1509-04-21 accession; 1509-06-11 Catherine marriage; 1514 Trinity House; 1518 College of Physicians; 1520 Field of Cloth of Gold; 1521 Defender of the Faith; 1529 Reformation Parliament; 1529 Wolsey fall; 1533 Anne marriage; 1533 Restraint of Appeals; 1534 Supremacy; 1534 Treasons; 1535 Valor; 1535 Fisher; 1535 More; 1536 Wales union; 1536 Augmentations; 1536 lesser houses; 1536 Anne execution; 1536 Pilgrimage; 1539 Great Bible; 1539 Six Articles; 1539 greater houses; 1540 Cleves; 1540 Cromwell; 1542 Catherine Howard; 1542 Solway Moss; 1543 Third Succession; 1544 Boulogne; 1547 will and death. Later Loeb, UNESCO, and encyclopedia pages are evidence, not additional acts. ## Dated facts - Henry dies on 28 January 1547 with a completed will transferring the crown to Edward VI. https://factrail.ai/facts/h8-will-death-1547. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-VIII-king-of-England, https://www.westminster-abbey.org/. - Henry’s 1544 Boulogne campaign takes the town as a completed late-reign French war. https://factrail.ai/facts/h8-boulogne-1544. Sources: https://www.hrp.org.uk/hampton-court-palace/history-and-stories/henry-viii/, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-VIII-king-of-England. - The 1543 Succession Act restores Mary and Elizabeth to the remainder as a completed statute. https://factrail.ai/facts/h8-third-succession-1543. Sources: https://www.parliament.uk/, https://www.legislation.gov.uk/. - The 1542 Solway Moss campaign is fought as a completed Anglo-Scottish war heading in Henry’s late reign. https://factrail.ai/facts/h8-solway-moss-1542. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-VIII-king-of-England, https://www.british-history.ac.uk/. - Catherine Howard is executed on 13 February 1542 as a completed royal killing. https://factrail.ai/facts/h8-catherine-howard-1542. Sources: https://www.hrp.org.uk/hampton-court-palace/history-and-stories/henry-viii/, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-VIII-king-of-England. - Thomas Cromwell is executed on 28 July 1540 as a completed ministerial killing. https://factrail.ai/facts/h8-cromwell-1540. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-VIII-king-of-England, https://www.oxforddnb.com/. - Henry marries Anne of Cleves on 6 January 1540 as a completed diplomatic Protestant-alliance ceremony. https://factrail.ai/facts/h8-cleves-marriage-1540. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-VIII-king-of-England, https://www.oxforddnb.com/. - The 1539 Six Articles impose penal Catholic-leaning doctrine as a completed statute. https://factrail.ai/facts/h8-six-articles-1539. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-VIII-king-of-England, https://www.legislation.gov.uk/. - The 1539 legislation completes suppression of remaining greater houses as a statute-and-surrender machine. https://factrail.ai/facts/h8-larger-monasteries-1539. Sources: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-collection/explore-by-time-period/early-modern/the-dissolution-of-the-monasteries/, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-VIII-king-of-England. - The Great Bible of 1539 is issued as a completed authorised English church Bible. https://factrail.ai/facts/h8-great-bible-1539. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-VIII-king-of-England, https://www.bl.uk/. - The 1536 Pilgrimage of Grace is raised and then suppressed as a completed northern rising against the religious-and-fiscal programme. https://factrail.ai/facts/h8-pilgrimage-grace-1536. Sources: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-collection/explore-by-time-period/early-modern/the-dissolution-of-the-monasteries/, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-VIII-king-of-England. - Anne Boleyn is beheaded on 19 May 1536 as a completed royal killing. https://factrail.ai/facts/h8-anne-execution-1536. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-VIII-king-of-England, https://www.hrp.org.uk/tower-of-london/. ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/people/henry-viii