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| 1503 |
| | The marriage of James IV, king of Scotland, to Margaret Tudor, daughter of Henry VII, leads a century later to the Union of the Crowns | |
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| 1509 |
| | On the death of his father, and as the result of the death of his elder brother Arthur, Henry VIII becomes king of England | |
| | Holbein, style of Henry VIII (detail) National Maritime Museum
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| 1510 |
| | Erasmus and Thomas More take the northern Renaissance in the direction of Christian humanism | |
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| 1511 |
| | The earliest surviving curling stone, discovered in Scotland, dates from this year | |
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| 1513 |
| | James IV of Scotland dies at Flodden, in the disastrous defeat of his army by the English | |
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| 1513 |
| | On the death of his father at Flodden, the one-year-old James V becomes king of Scotland | |
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| 1514 |
| | Thomas Wolsey begins to build himself a palace at Hampton Court, but will later consider it politic to give it to Henry VIII | |
| | Hampton Court west front, chromolithograph Richmond Local Studies
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| 1516 |
| | Catherine of Aragon gives birth to a daughter, Mary, who becomes the only one of her six children to live beyond infancy | |
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| 1524 |
| | William Tyndale studies in the university at Wittenberg and plans to translate the Bible into English | |
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| 1526 |
| | Hans Holbein the Younger pays his first visit to England, and stays with Thomas More in Chelsea | |
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