* July – Kett's Rebellion in East Anglia, against land enclosures ; rebellion in Oxfordshire against landowners associated with religious changes.

Kett's rebellion ended on 27 August when the rebels were defeated by an army under the leadership of the Earl of Warwick at the Battle of Dussindale.

Kett's rebellion, or " the commotion time " as it was also called in Norfolk, began in July 1549 in the small market town of Wymondham, nearly ten miles south-west of Norwich.

Two or possibly three of Kett's brothers were dead by 1549, but his eldest brother William joined him in the rebellion.

Kett's wife, Alice, and several sons are not recorded as having been involved in the rebellion.

In 1550 the Norwich authorities decreed that in future 27 August should be a holiday to commemorate " the deliverance of the city " from Kett's Rebellion, and paid for lectures in the cathedral and parish churches on the sins of rebellion.

The rebellion is remembered in the names of schools, streets, pubs and a walking route in the Norwich and Wymondham area, including the Robert Kett Junior School in Wymondham, Dussindale Primary School in Norwich, the Robert Kett pub in Wymondham and Kett's Tavern in Norwich, and in a folk band, Lewis Garland and Kett's Rebellion, and a beer, Kett's Rebellion, by Woodforde's Brewery in Norwich.

Kett's rebellion has featured in novels, including Frederick H. Moore's Mistress Haselwode: A tale of the Reformation Oak ( 1876 )), F. C.

Kett's Oak, said to be the rallying point for the rebellion, may still be seen today on the B1172 road between Wymondham and Hethersett.

During Kett's rebellion in 1549 the house was broken into and looted.

Kett's Rebellion in Norfolk and the Prayer Book Rebellion in Devon and Cornwall simultaneously created a crisis during a time when invasion from Scotland and France were feared.

Kett's Rebellion was a revolt in Norfolk, England during the reign of Edward VI, largely in response to the enclosure of land.

Having listened to the rioters ' grievances, Kett decided to join their cause and helped them tear down his own fences before taking them back to Hethersett where they destroyed Flowerdew's enclosures. Kett's Oak, beside the B1172, near Hethersett, Norfolk The following day, Tuesday 9 July, the protesters set off for Norwich.

Known as Kett's Oak, it has been preserved by Norfolk County Council, and a new plaque was unveiled in 2006.

Kett's council, which consisted of representatives from the Hundreds of Norfolk and one representative from Suffolk met under the Oak of Reformation to administer the camp, issuing warrants to obtain provisions and arms and arrest members of the gentry.

1977 Kett's Rebellion: the Norfolk rising of 1549.

1859 Kett's Rebellion in Norfolk.

* Virtual Norfolk: The ' Commotion Time ' in Norfolk: Kett's Rebellion of 1549

During the country-wide uprisings of 1549 Dudley put down Kett's Rebellion in Norfolk.

Sadler was present when Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester, was arrested, and he also accompanied the force that put down Robert Kett's Norfolk Rebellion.

In 1549 Robert Dudley participated in crushing Kett's Rebellion and probably first met Amy Robsart, whom he was to wed on 4 June 1550 in the presence of the young King Edward.

Mount Surrey, a house built by the Earl of Surrey on the site of the despoiled St Leonard's Priory, had lain empty since the Earl's execution in 1547 and was used to hold Kett's prisoners.

Neville was secretary to Matthew Parker, who had preached to Kett's followers under the Oak of Reformation on Mousehold, unsuccessfully appealing to them to disperse.

Kett's name was thus kept alive as a " reviled symbol of rustic violence ".

George Kett's son, also George, was mayor of Cambridge on three occasions and compiled a genealogy of the Kett family.

Kett's Rebellion was evidence of an undercurrent of ferment in sixteenth-century Wymondham.

The Marquess of Northampton had been unable to restore order in and around Norwich, so John Dudley was sent to get hold of Kett's Rebellion.

The duke's family descended from Sir Edmund Sheffield, second cousin of Henry VIII, who in 1547 was raised to the Peerage of England as Baron Sheffield and in 1549 was murdered in the streets of Norwich during Kett's Rebellion.

The Sheffield family descended from Sir Edmund Sheffield, second cousin of Henry VIII, who in 1547 was raised to the Peerage of England as Baron Sheffield of Butterwick and in 1549 was murdered in the streets of Norwich during Kett's Rebellion.

The first creation, as Baron Sheffield of Butterwick, was in the Peerage of England in 1547 for Edmund Sheffield ( 1521 – 1549 ), second cousin of Henry VIII, who was murdered in Norwich during Kett's Rebellion.

In 1549 Robert Kett, rebelling against agricultural hardships, led a large group of men who camped for six weeks on the heath before the uprising, known as Kett's Rebellion, was suppressed.

Instead of heading to London from her residence at Hunsdon, Mary fled into East Anglia, where she owned extensive estates and Dudley had ruthlessly put down Kett's Rebellion.

According to the leaders of Kett's Rebellion ( 1549 ), " all bond men may be made free, for God made all free with his precious blood-shedding.

* August 26 – Battle of Dussindale in England: Kett's Rebellion quashed.

Kett set up his headquarters in St Michael's Chapel, the ruins of which have since been known as Kett's Castle.

Kett's artillery, now on the slopes of Mousehold Heath, opened fire on the city.

George Kett, a descendant of Kett's younger brother Thomas, moved to Cambridge and co-founded the architectural masonry company of Rattee & Kett.

The brothers had supporters in England, ready to rise up ; led by Robert de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester, the rebellion in England from Hugh Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk, Hugh de Kevelioc, 5th Earl of Chester, and William I of Scotland.

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Both Catherine's brother, William Parr and uncle, William Parr, 1st Baron Parr of Horton fought with the Duke of Norfolk and the Duke of Suffolk against the rebellion.

In the longer term the Kett family do not seem to have suffered from their association with the rebellion, but to have prospered in various parts of Norfolk.

The chief rebel in East Anglia was Hugh Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk a rival to William d ' Aubigny, who seized Norwich Castle during the rebellion.

Eye began to lose its strategic importance after 1173 when the castle was attacked by Hugh Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk, during the rebellion against Henry II, and later during the Second Barons ' War of 1265 after which it never regained its former status.

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The plan was to have the Duke of Alba invade from the Netherlands with 10, 000 men, foment a rebellion of the northern English nobility, murder Elizabeth, and marry Mary to Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk.

In the autumn of that year Norfolk and Surrey suppressed a rebellion against the King by the Duke of Buckingham.

From 1070 to 1080 Malet was High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, and helped suppress the rebellion of Ralph Wader.

In 1075, Wulfstan and the Worcestershire levy put down the rebellion known as ' The Bridal of Norwich ' of Ralph de Guader, Earl of Norfolk, Roger de Breteuil, 2nd Earl of Hereford and the Saxon Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria, against William the Conqueror.

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The most interesting of his numerous anti-Catholic pamphlets are those on the rebellion of Northumberland and on the projected marriage of Mary, Queen of Scots, to the Duke of Norfolk.

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Once in Australia, many of these prisoners continued to plan escapes from British military custody — for example, the 1804 Castle Hill convict rebellion, and continual tension on Norfolk Island in the same year also led to an Irish revolt.

Westmorland's wife, Jane Howard, played an active part in the rebellion, hoping to arrange a marriage between her brother Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk and the prospective Queen Mary.