A tower is added to St Mary's in Barnes

Henry Tudor kills Richard III at Bosworth Field and takes the crown as Henry VII

Henry VII, whose mother is Lancastrian, marries the Yorkist heiress Elizabeth and thus unites the roses - in the Tudor rose

When Henry VII is in Richmond for Christmas, fire breaks out in his lodging and destroys much of the palace

On the death of his father, James III, James IV becomes king of Scotland

John Williams, a brewer, acquires half an acre of land beside the Thames in Mortlake and builds on it a house subsequently known as Cromwell House

Henry VII commissions the Italian navigator John Cabot to cross the Atlantic in search of new territories for England

John Cabot, searching for a trade route to China, probably reaches Newfoundland

A number of noblemen and wealthy merchants build their villas around Kew Green, including Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester, closely associated with Queen Elizabeth I. The only villa to survive from this period is the present Kew Palace built in the Dutch style for Samuel Fortrey.

The manor of East Sheen and West Hall is carved out of the manor of Mortlake, including all that part of Kew that now lies between the river, the A316 and the District railway

The rebuilding of Henry VII's palace is largely completed, after an impressively short time

The marriage of James IV, king of Scotland, to Margaret Tudor, daughter of Henry VII, leads a century later to the Union of the Crowns

St Peter’s is rebuilt, retaining some Norman work in the chancel from the original ‘chapelry’

The newly crowned and recently married king, Henry VIII, spends his first Christmas with his wife, Catherine of Aragon, at Richmond

On the death of his father, and as the result of the death of his elder brother Arthur, Henry VIII becomes king of England

Erasmus and Thomas More take the northern Renaissance in the direction of Christian humanism

The earliest surviving curling stone, discovered in Scotland, dates from this year

James IV of Scotland dies at Flodden, in the disastrous defeat of his army by the English

On the death of his father at Flodden, the one-year-old James V becomes king of Scotland

Thomas Wolsey leases Hampton Court from Henry Daubeney

Thomas Wolsey begins to build himself a palace at Hampton Court, but will later consider it politic to give it to Henry VIII

Wolsey's first phase of work at Hampton Court adds a whole new courtyard of accomodation, Base Court, and an imposing Great Gatehouse

Catherine of Aragon gives birth to a daughter, Mary, who becomes the only one of her six children to live beyond infancy

Thomas Cromwell’s sister Katherine and her husband Morgan Williams move into the Mortlake house inherited from Morgan’s uncle John Williams

The second phase of Wolsey's work at Hampton Court includes the creation of three suites fit for Royal occupation, a suite of rooms for himself and a magnificant Chapel