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| 1546 |
| | | David Beaton, the archbishop of St Andrews, burns a leading Protestant, George Wishart, as a heretic and is murdered in retaliation | |
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| 1547 |
| | | John Knox is captured in St Andrews and is sent to serve in the French fleet as a galley slave | |
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| 1549 |
| | | The first version of the English prayer book, or Book of Common Prayer, is published with text by Thomas Cranmer | |
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| 1553 |
| | | Mary I succeeds to the English throne, and devotes her energies to the restoration of the Catholic faith | |
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| 1554 |
| | | Mary I causes grave offence in England by her marriage to the Catholic heir to the king of Spain | |
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| 1555 |
| | | The Peace of Augsburg achieves a compromise which for a while solves the religious tensions deriving from the Reformation | |
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| 1555 |
| | | The Protestant martyrs, though few in number, ensure the reputation of Bloody Mary in English history | |
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| 1559 |
| | | John Knox returns to Scotland from Geneva and inspires the Protestants to march on Edinburgh | |
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| 1559 |
| | | A national synod of France's Protestants, the Huguenots, is convened in Paris | |
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| 1561 |
| | | Mary Queen of Scots returns from France to Edinburgh, and to an inevitable clash with John Knox | |
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