Jersey Timeline 16th Century
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| Year | Jersey events | World events | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1502 | Fire at house of Bailiff Thomas Lempriere reportedly destroys majority of island's historical records | ||
| 1505 | Earliest Rolls of the Royal Court date from this year | ||
| 1509 | Accession of Henry VIII | ||
| 1518 | Serious outbreak of plague | Martin Luther nailed his theses to the church door at Wittenburg, starting the Reformation | |
| 1524 | First mention of the States of Jersey - Les Etats, which develops as an advisory body to the Royal Court | ||
| 1541 | Two Constables sworn for Parish of St Helier - only known occurrence | ||
| 1542 | Construction of St Aubin's Fort starts | ||
| 1547 | Orders received for removal of all signs of Catholicism and destruction of roadside crosses | Accession of Edward VI | |
| 1549 | French invade and are beaten in Trinity battle; Latin services abolished | ||
| 1550 | Book of Common Prayer translated into French and printed in London for island's use | ||
| 1550 | First mention of St Helier as a town | ||
| 1553 | States order troops of each parish to practice archery on Sundays | Accession of Queen Mary | |
| 1558 | Huguenots take refuge in Jersey; some become Rectors | Accession of Elizabeth I | |
| 1562 | Calvinism of the Huguenots becomes established in Jersey and for the next 300 years Jersey churches were called Temples | ||
| 1563 | Serious outbreak of plague. Royal Court sits in St Saviour's Church | ||
| 1564 | First United Calvinist Synod of the Channel Islands held in Guernsey | ||
| 1565 | Helier De Carteret granted a charter to colonise Sark by Queen Elizabeth | ||
| 1568 | 364 years after the break with Normandy, control of Jersey's churches switches from Coutances to Winchester | Edict of Saint Maur banishes all Huguenot ministers from France and many settle in Jersey | |
| 1572 | French protestant refugees flee to the island after the massacre of St Bartholomew | ||
| 1582 | By now hundreds of Jerseymen were sailing across the Atlantic to bring back cargoes of Newfoundland cod, leaving Jersey in the spring and returning in time for autumn ploughing | ||
| 1582 | First record of a doctor in Jersey | ||
| 1585 | Les Chroniques de Jersey produced by anonymous writer | ||
| 1590 | Construction of Elizabeth Castle starts | ||
| 1593 | Town of St Helier consists of 300 houses with population of about 1,500 | ||
| 1595 | Wines to be sampled by Bailiff and Jurats before sale in taverns; beer to be tasted by Constables or Centeniers |
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