What is Dissolution of the monasteries?
[[File:Visitation monasteries.JPG|frame|right|''Modern drawing of one of [[Oliver Cromwell]]'s visitors leaving a monastery. People think this could be Colchester Abbey, after it was ruined.'']] The '''dissolution of the monasteries''' was an event that happened from 1536 to 1540, when [[England|English]] King [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]] took away the land and money that the nuns and monks of the [[Roman Catholicism|Roman Catholic]] church owned. Henry VIII then gave this land and money to people that supported him. This was also when Henry VIII made himself the new head of the [[Church of England]] (which is a type of [[Christianity]]). Parliament made the [[Act of Supremacy]] to give him the right to do both these things. It was part of the [[Protestant Reformation]] in England. {{Spoken Wikipedia|Dissolution of the monasteries.ogg|19 July 2006}} {{religion-stub}} [[Category:16th century in England]] [[Category:Anglicanism]] [[Category:Protestant Reformation]]