Tudor England
Rose dynasty era
Tudor England refers to the period of English history from 1485 to 1603, when the Tudor dynasty ruled.
The era spans Henry VII through Elizabeth I and includes the English Reformation, the break from Rome, and the flourishing of Renaissance culture.
Shakespeare wrote during Tudor England.
The term often evokes half-timbered architecture, religious upheaval, and the reign of Henry VIII.
- Sir Francis DrakeTudor sea captain, explorer
- RenaissanceEuropean cultural reawakening
- Lady Jane GreyShortest-reigning English monarch
- Elizabethan eraLate sixteenth-century England
- Catholic ChurchPope-led Christian denomination
Henry VIII · William Shakespeare · Christopher Marlowe · Thomas Cromwell · Elizabeth I · madrigals · feudal system · John Cabot · Anne Boleyn · Act of Supremacy · Globe Theatre · wool trade · Catherine of Aragon · Mary I · Bloody Mary · Protestantism · Tower · ruff
Tudor EnglandVictorian England
Nineteenth-century British imperial period
Roman Britain · modern Britain · Elizabethan England · Regency England
Tudor EnglandHoly Roman Empire
Medieval Germanic political entity
constitutional monarchy · parliamentary democracy · republican government
Tudor EnglandOttoman Empire
Turkish sultanate, 1299-1922
feudal Japan · Holy Roman Empire · Renaissance Italy · Tsarist Russia · Scottish Highlands