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1509 CE - 1547 CE: Reign of Henry VIII of England.
1534 CE: The Act of Supremacy declares Henry VIII of England the head of the Church in England and not the Pope.
1547 CE - 1553 CE: Reign of Edward VI of England.
1549 CE: A new Book of Common Prayer is issued in England.
1549 CE: The Act of Uniformity makes the new Book of Common Prayer compulsory in England.
1552 CE: A new, even more radical Book of Common Prayer is issued in England, removing many of the Catholic elements of religious worship.
1553 CE - 1558 CE: Reign of Mary I of England.
1553 CE: The First Act of Repeal reverses all the religious-aimed legislation of Edward VI of England.
1555 CE: The Second Act of Repeal abolishes all post-1529 CE legislation concerning religious matters in England.
1555 CE: Mary I of England begins her persecution of Protestant 'heretics', eventually burning 287 of them at the stake.
1559 CE - 1563 CE: The Elizabethan Religious Settlement, a set of acts and decisions which continue the English Reformation.
1559 CE: Elizabeth I of England reinstates the Act of Supremacy.
1563 CE: The 39 Articles define English Protestantism.
1588 CE - 1589 CE: The Marprelate Controversy; Anonymous Puritan writer publishes tracts attacking Anglican Church.
1603 CE - 1625 CE: Reign of James I of England; Puritans are persecuted; King James Bible created to counter Geneva Bible of the Puritans.
1620 CE - 1640 CE: The Great Migration (Puritan Migration) from England to North America.
1630 CE - 1740 CE: Puritans exert almost complete control over governmental policies in New England and influence other colonies on the eastern coast of North America.
1630 CE: John Winthrop migrates to North America with 700 Puritan colonists to become governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1636 CE - 1638 CE: Anne Hutchinson is the primary voice of the Antinomian Controversy, defending her belief in the supremacy of God's Grace in salvation against Puritan authorities.