his friendship with Henry VIII, and the ways in which both men’s lives are complicated by their love affairs. Wolsey, the son of a butcher, enters the priesthood after attending Oxford. In 1509 ...

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In 1531, King Henry VIII is recognized as the supreme head of the Church in England by the Convocation of Canterbury. In 1618, German astronomer Johannes Kepler devised his third law of planetary ...