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07/01/2024

On 6th January

07/01/2024

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07/01/2024

On 4th January

On this day in 1642, during the sitting of the Long Parliament, Charles I sent approximately 400 armed soldiers in to arrest "The Five Members". Charles I believed that these five members of the House of Commons had vehemently encouraged the Scots to invade England, and that they were trying to turn the people against him. However, these five men were not in the House of Commons at the time (having been forewarned of what may happen) and so Charles failed in his endeavour. Charles called for the men to be given up to him, but the city officers declared their support for Parliament and refused to help. Rumours spread through London that the King's supporters were going to attack the city - approximately 6000 people came out in to barricade and defend the city.
Charles I had lost the support of the people of London, and his act of attempting to arrest the five members pushed Parliament to issuing a Militia Bill and beginning the first English Civil War.

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07/01/2024

On 5th January

On this day.

1531: Pope Clement VII forbids Henry VIII from remarrying. Henry's prohibition from divorcing Catherine of Aragon to marry her lady-in-waiting, Anne Boleyn, catalyses the English Reformation: the separation from the Roman Catholic Church.

Later, in 1534, Henry VIII had the Act of Supremacy enacted giving him primacy of both state and church in becoming the head of the newly founded Church of England.

Henry VIII acquires all Papal assets and becomes significantly more powerful.

Protestantism (deriving from protestation to Catholicism) ascends, and with the exception of Mary I and James II, England and her monarch's are henceforth officially Protestant, having Catholics banned from the throne.

Catholicism would not be accepted in the public sphere and in official roles until the Emancipation of the Catholics (1829).

Pope Clement's prohibition would have major ramifications in England for 300 years. Early modern England would see from 1531 until the long nineteenth century the English Reformation, Civil War, Glorious Revolution and signing of the English Bill of Rights. Even still today, the British Monarch cannot be Catholic, for they must uphold the headship of the Anglican Church

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05/03/2023

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