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Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, annulled Henry VIII's marriage to his first wife Catherine of Aragon (pictured), beginning events that would culminate in the English Reformation.
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Queen of England from 1509 to 1533
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16th-century separation of the Church of England from the Catholic Church
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