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1478 CE - 1535 CE: Life of Sir Thomas More, scholar and Lord Chancellor to Henry VIII of England.
1515 CE: Sir Thomas More participates in a royal trade delegation to Flanders.
1516 CE: Sir Thomas More's 'Utopia' is published.
1518 CE: Sir Thomas More is invited to join the KIng's Council of Henry VIII of England.
1521 CE: Sir Thomas More is knighted by Henry VIII of England
and made Treasurer of the Exchequer.
1523 CE: Sir Thomas More is made Speaker of the House of Commons.
1525 CE: Sir Thomas More is made Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
1529 CE - 1532 CE: Sir Thomas More is Lord Chancellor to Henry VIII of England.
1532 CE: Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor over Henry VIII of England's plans to remarry.
1534 CE - 1535 CE: Sir Thomas More is imprisoned in the Tower of London prior to his execution.
1534 CE: The Act of Supremacy declares Henry VIII of England the head of the Church in England and not the Pope.
1535 CE: Sir Thomas More is executed for refusing to acknowledge Henry VIII of England as the head of the Church in England.