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Year
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Event
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1478
| Born on February 7th on Milk Street, London to John More, a lawyer,
and later a judge, and Agnes, daughter of Thomas Granger. The date and
year of More's birth are not certain; the date was possibly February 6th
and the year perhaps 1477.
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1492
| Enters Oxford University
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1496
| Sent by his father to study law at Lincoln's Inn
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1499
| Meets Erasmus for the first time
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1501
| Living as a guest in the London Charterhouse, considers entering the
priesthood
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1504
| Enters Parliament
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1505
| Marries Jane Colt. They will have four children
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1510
| Appointed Under-Sheriff of the City of London
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1511
| Wife Jane dies. More marries Alice Middleton, a widow.
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1515
| Goes on diplomatic mission to Antwerp. There he begins to write
Utopia
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1516
| On return to London, he finishes Utopia
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1518
| Enters service of King Henry VIII
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1521
| Knighted. Made Sub-Treasurer
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1523
| Elected Speaker of the House of Commons. Writes Responsio ad
Lutherum
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1525
| Made Chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster
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1527
| Holbein paints portrait of More
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1528
| Begins defense of the Catholic faith in English writings
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1529
| On October 25th, made Lord Chancellor, succeeding Cardinal Wolsey.
Publishes Dialogue Concerning Heresies
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1532
| On May 15th English Bishops submit to King Henry VIII. On May 16th,
More resigns the chancellorship.
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1533
| Publishes books in support of the Catholic faith, including
Confutation of Tyndale's Answer
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1534
| Imprisoned in the Tower of London for refusing to take the oath of the
Act of Succession. While imprisoned, writes Treatise on the Passion
and Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation
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1535
| On July 1th, tried in London's Westminister Hall and convicted of
treason on the basis of perjured testimony. On July 6th, beheaded outside
the Tower of London
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1557
| More's English works published
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1935
| With Bishop John Fisher, canonized by the Roman Catholic Church
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1960
| The play, Man for All Seasons, by Robert Bolt, written. Six
years later the motion picture by the same name released.
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1977-1978
| London's National Portrait Gallery holds the Thomas More Exhibition in
honor of the 500th anniversary of the birth of More. |
