This article is about the particular significance of the century 1501–1600 to Wales and its people.
1501
1502
- March - The Prince and Princess of Wales are both afflicted by an unknown illness, "a malign vapour which proceeded from the air".[2] It would prove fatal for the prince.
- 4 April - News reaches King Henry VII of England of the death of the Prince of Wales; he is grief-stricken.[1]
- 23 April - Three weeks after his sudden death, the body of Arthur, Prince of Wales, is removed from Ludlow Castle and taken to the Parish Church of Ludlow.
- 25 April - The Prince of Wales is buried at the Abbey of St Wulfstan in Worcester. His widow, Catherine, now Dowager Princess of Wales, is too ill to attend her husband's funeral, suffering from the same mystery illness that is thought to have killed him.
- August
1503
1504
1505
1506
- April - The betrothal of Prince Henry to the Dowager Princess of Wales (1503) is declared invalid (Henry's age at the time is used as a pretext).
- Construction begins on tower of St Giles' Church, Wrexham.
1507
1508
1509
1510
1512
1516
1517
- Lady Catherine Gordon marries her third husband, Matthew Craddock, and obtains permission to live with him in Wales when not at court.[9]
1519
1524
1525
1531
1534
1536
- The Laws in Wales Act 1542 (27 Hen. 8 c. 26), An Acte for Lawes & Justice to be ministred in Wales in like fourme as it is in this Realme, "unites" Wales with England and gives Wales parliamentary representation.
- Dissolution of the Monasteries - Abergavenny Priory, Basingwerk Abbey, Caldey Island Priory, Chepstow Priory, Cymer Abbey, Ewenny Priory, Grace Dieu Abbey, Haverfordwest Priory, Kidwelly Priory, Llanllugan Abbey, Llanllyr Priory, Margam Abbey, Monmouth Priory, Pill Priory, St Dogmaels Abbey, Strata Marcella Abbey, Talley Abbey and Usk Priory are suppressed
1537
1538
- Dissolution of the Monasteries - Bangor Friary, Beddgelert Priory, Brecon Friary and Brecon Cathedral Priory, Cardiff Blackfriars and Greyfriars, Cardigan Priory, Carmarthen Friary, Denbigh Friary, Haverfordwest Abbey, Llanfaes Friary, Llanthony Priory, Maenan Abbey, Newport Friary, Penrhys Grange and Rhuddlan Friary are suppressed.
1539
1540
- A Carmarthenshire land dispute becomes the last recorded case to be heard under Welsh law, four years after the 1536 Act stipulated that only English law was to be used in Wales.[14]
1541
1542
1546
1550
1551
1553
1557
1558
- November - Thomas Parry, faithful servant of Princess Elizabeth, is made Comptroller of the Household on her accession to the throne, as well as receiving a knighthood.
1559
1563
1565
1566
1568
1570
1571
1573
1574
1576
1577
1578
1584
1587
1588
1589
1595
- February - A riot breaks out in Cardiff as the result of the activities of Sir William Herbert (a relative of the Earl of Pembroke) and his henchmen.
1596
- Sir William and Nicholas Herbert are convicted by the Court of Star Chamber,[27] gaoled in the Fleet Prison, and fined 1000 marks for their part in the previous year's affair.
1597
Books
1502
- Rhys Nanmor - Elegy on the death of Arthur, Prince of Wales[30]
1540
1542
1546
- Sir John Price - Yn y Llyvyr Hwn (first Welsh language book to be printed)
1547
- William Salesbury - A dictionary in Englyshe and Welshe, moche necessary to all suche Welshemen as wil spedly learne the Englyshe tongue[32]
1550
- William Salesbury[32]
- The baterie of the Popes Botereulx, commonlye called the high Altare
- Ban wedy i dynny air yngair alla o ben gyfreith Howel da... A certaine case extracte out of the Auncient Law of Hoel da... whereby it may be gathered that priestes had lawfully maried wyues at that tyme
- A briefe and a playne introduction, teachyng how to pronounce the letters in the British tong (now commenly called Walsh)...
1556
- Robert Recorde - The Castle of Knowledge, containing the Explication of the Sphere both Celestiall and Materiall, etc.
1559
1564
1567
1568
1573
- Sir John Prys - Historiae Britannicae Defensio (published posthumously)
1584
c. 1586-7
- "G.R. of Milan" (Gruffydd Robert or perhaps Robert Gwyn (c. 1540/50-1592/1604)) - Y Drych Cristianogawl (first part; the first book printed in Wales, on the clandestine Catholic press on the Little Orme, with a false imprint of "Rouen, 1585")[25]
1587
1589
- John Penry - Exhortation to the governours and people of Wales...
1594
1595
- Robert Holland [cy] - Dau Gymro yn Taring yn bell o'u Gwlad [cy]
1600
1504
1505
1510
1511
1512
1515
1527
1528
1534
1546
1558
1560
1565
1572
1575
1582
1587
1592
1500
1502
1503
- date unknown
- Richard Amerike, English merchant, royal customs officer and sheriff, of Welsh descent
- Sir John Donne, courtier, diplomat and soldier, commissioner of the Donne Triptych[45]
1505
- date unknown - Sir Thomas Salusbury, Tudor supporter
1509
1510
1512
1513
1514
1521
1525
1526
1531
1537
1543
1549
1554
1555
1558
1559
1560
1564
1570
1574
1581
1584
1585
1586
1589
1590
1591
1592
1593
1595
1596
1597
1598
Scarisbrick, J. J. (1997). Henry VIII (2 ed.). Yale University Press. p. 8. ISBN 0-300-07158-2.
Charles-Edwards The Welsh laws p.93
Schubert, H. R. (1957). History of the British Iron and Steel Industry. London: Routledge.
Crawford, Anne (2007). The Yorkists: The History of a Dynasty. London: Continuum Publishing. pp. 166–7. ISBN 978-1-85285-351-8.
University of Oxford (1968). 1500-1714. Kraus Reprint. p. 1098.
Ralph A. Griffiths, Sir Rhys ap Thomas and his family (University of Wales Press, 1993), p. 39 et. seq..
The Scots Peerage, Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland, ed. James Balfour Paul, Vol. IV (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1907), pp. 530-1
Phillips, Thomas Oswald (1959). "DAFYDD, MEURIG". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
Gruffydd Aled Williams, 'Wiliam Midleton, bonheddwr, anturiwr a bardd', Transactions of the Denbighshire Historical Society, 24 (1975), 74-116; Idem,'Wiliam Midleton, Elizabethan poet and privateer', Maritime Wales, 1 (1976), 11-21; Idem, 'Hanes Wiliam Midleton: tystiolaeth Richard Robinson', Llên Cymru, 35 (2012), 19-31; idem, 'Psalmae Wiliam Midleton', Ysgrifau Beirniadol XVII, ed. J. E. C. Williams (Denbigh, 1990), 93-113.