The Irish Free State, whose consent to the Abdication Act was also required, neither gave it nor allowed the British legislation to take effect in the Free State's jurisdiction ; instead, the Irish parliament passed its own Act — the Executive Authority ( External Relations ) Act — the day after the Declaration of Abdication Act took force elsewhere, meaning Edward VIII, for one day, remained King of Ireland while George VI was king of all the other realms.

During the English Reformation the Church of England broke away from the authority of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church, at first temporarily under Henry VIII and Edward VI and later permanently during the reign of Elizabeth I.

Finally, in 1549, Cornishmen rose once again in rebellion when the staunchly Protestant Edward VI tried to impose a new Prayer Book.

The original book, published in 1549, in the reign of Edward VI, was a product of the English Reformation following the break with Rome.

The work of producing English-language books for use in the liturgy was largely that of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury at first under the reign of Henry VIII, only more radically under his son Edward VI.

It was not until Henry's death in 1547 and the accession of Edward VI that revision could proceed faster.

However, the 1552 book was used only for a short period, since Edward VI died in the summer of 1553 and, as soon as she could do so, Mary I, restored the old religion.

Instead of the banning of all vestments save the rochet ( for bishops ) and the surplice for parish clergy, it permitted ' such ornaments ... as were in use ... in the second year of K. Edward VI '.

The book concerned was not, however, the 1559 book but very much that of 1549, the first book of Edward VI.

" For a short time he attended King Edward VI Grammar School in Totnes, South Devon, but his health forced him back to private tutors for a time.

In 1553, Mary I, a Roman Catholic, succeeded her Protestant half-brother, Edward VI, to the English throne.

Her half-brother, Edward VI, bequeathed the crown to Lady Jane Grey, cutting his two half-sisters, Elizabeth and the Catholic Mary, out of the succession in spite of statute law to the contrary.

Henry VIII died in 1547 ; Elizabeth's half-brother, Edward VI became king at age nine.

As a result, the parliament of 1559 started to legislate for a church based on the Protestant settlement of Edward VI, with the monarch as its head, but with many Catholic elements, such as priestly vestments.

Heir to the second oldest inherited earldom in England, the infant was probably named to honour Edward VI, from whom he received a gilded christening cup.

* 1547 – Edward VI of England is crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey.

The ceremony was first conducted with the Prince of Wales ( the future Edward VIII ) in 1927, then with King George VI in 1939, and last with his daughter, Queen Elizabeth II in 1959 and 1970.

He died in January 1547 at the age of 55 and was succeeded by his son, Edward VI.

Although he showed piety and intelligence, Edward VI was only nine years old when he took the throne in 1547.

A market was running outside the abbey from the 10th century ; it was confirmed by King John of England in 1202 and by a Royal Charter of Edward VI in 1553.

In May 1553, in response to a public petition, the first royal charter for the town was issued by King Edward VI, granting it the status of borough.

His nine year old son, Edward VI becomes King, and the first Protestant ruler of England.

Calvin wrote many letters to religious and political leaders throughout Europe, including this one sent to Edward VI of England.

He then turned his attention to the general epistles, dedicating them to Edward VI of England.

Edward died on February 1, 1850, in Springfield, likely of tuberculosis.

Edward Nangle died in 1883.

* Alphonso, Earl of Chester, first son of Edward I of England, who died at the age of ten.

In 899 Alfred the Great, king of Wessex, died leaving his son Edward the Elder as ruler of Britain south of the River Thames and his daughter Æthelflæd and son-in-law Æthelred ruling the western, English part of Mercia.

Edward died in 924.

When his father died in 1272, Edward felt in a safe enough position to wait until 1274 before returning home to claim the throne.

Edward Bellamy died in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts.

When Edward Pole died, Darwin married Elizabeth and moved to her home, Radbourne Hall, four miles ( 6 km ) west of Derby.

Eleven days after Anne Boleyn's death, Henry married Jane Seymour, but she died shortly after the birth of their son, Prince Edward, in 1537.

Elizabeth Hastings later married Edward Somerset, while Mary Hastings died unmarried.

On 6 May 1583, eighteen months after their reconciliation, Edward and Anne's only son was born, and died the same day.

When Edward was four his father died and his mother moved to London.

Alfred of Wessex died in 899 and was succeeded by his son Edward the Elder.

Edward died in 1483, only 40 years old.

Edward was beginning to show great promise when he fell violently ill with tuberculosis in 1553 and died that August two months short of his 16th birthday.

Edward I had died in 1307.

Balliol finally resigned his claim to the throne to Edward in 1356, before retiring to Yorkshire, where he died in 1364.

When John I died, Henry's eldest brother, Edward became head of the castles council, and granted Henry a " Royal Flush " of all profits from trading within the areas he discovered as well as the sole right to authorize expeditions beyond Cape Bojador.

When Edward died eight years later, Henry supported his brother Peter for the regency during Afonso V's minority, and in return received a confirmation of this levy.

The situation in England resulted in damage to them ; on 21 June 1377, Edward III died.

He died at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island on November 21, 1997.