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1516 Utopia (book)
1535 "I die the King's good servant, but God's first."
1535 After refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy, Thomas More was convicted of treason and beheaded.
1935 Pope Pius XI canonised Thomas More in 1935 as a martyr.
2000 Pope John Paul II in 2000 declared him the "heavenly Patron of Statesmen and Politicians"
Saint Thomas More Catholic Chapel & Center at Yale University
The Soviet Union honoured him for the purportedly communist attitude toward property rights expressed in Utopia.