| Event | Year |
| Commercial treaty with Brittany | |
| Henry VII Trade Embargo with Neths 1 | |
| Treaty of Greenwich | |
| Collapse of Antwerp Cloth Market | |
| Treaty of Etaples | |
| Alva's troops increase to 50,000 | |
| Philip gains control of Portugal | |
| Henry VII treaties with Denmark and Portugal | |
| Sponsoring of the NE Passage | |
| Renewal of Treaty of Blois | |
| Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots | |
| Drake's circumnavigation begins | |
| Kett's Rebellion and the Western Rising | |
| Death of Elizabeth | |
| Treaty of London | |
| Start of French Wars of Religion | |
| Treaty of Troyes | |
| Excommunication of Henry VIII | |
| Wyatt's rebellion | |
| Warbeck lands at Deal | |
| Expulsion of the sea-beggars | |
| Arthur marries Catherine of Aragon | |
| Mary, Queen of Scots, arrives in England | |
| Treaty of the More | |
| The Spanish Fury (sack of Antwerp) | |
| Accession of Henry VIII | |
| Henry VIII's 1st French War | |
| Henry VIII's 3rd French War | |
| Treaty of Redon | |
| Malus Intercursus | |
| Elizabeth first sends troops to Scotland | |
| Treaty of Bruges | |
| Tyrone's Rebellion | |
| East India Co. founded | |
| Henry VIII's 2nd French War | |
| English Troops in Brittany | |
| Drake raids Cadiz | |
| Cornish Rebellion | |
| Medina del Campo | |
| Accession of Mary I | |
| 2nd Spanish trade embargo on England | |
| Dutch Revolt proper | |
| Treaty of Joinville | |
| Fall of Edinburgh to Anglo-Scottish forces | |
| Battle of Solway Moss | |