| Year | 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.
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