Historical Timeline of Princess Elizabeth Tudor
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| September 7, 1533 (Sunday between 3 & 4 pm) | born at Greenwich Palace in the Chamber of Virgins, named after her grandmother Elizabeth of York also possibly after her maternal grandmother Elizabeth Howard |
| March 23, 1534 | Parliament passes the Act of Succession, declaring the offspring of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII as the lawful heirs to the throne, required subjects to take an oath upholding this Act as well as the King's supremacy, those who refused would be charged with treason |
| September 7, 1534 | Elizabeth is a year old. |
| November 1534 | Parliament passes the First Act of Supremacy, declaring the king as the head of the Church of England |
| September 7, 1535 | Elizabeth is 2 years old |
| November/December 1535 | mother Anne Boleyn encourages a french match for her young daughter |
| January 7, 1536 | Katherine of Aragon dies |
| January 8, 1536 | Both Henry & Anne appear in joyful yellow from top to toe and Princess Elizabeth is paraded triumphantly in Church that Sunday morning |
| May 2, 1536 | mother Anne Boleyn was arrested on charges of adultery and treason |
| May 17, 1536 | marriage between mother and father declared void by Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, Elizabeth is declared illegitimate and no longer a princess |
| May 19, 1536 | mother Anne Bolyen is beheaded at Tower Green and buried in the Chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula |
| May 30, 1536 | father marries Jane Seymour |
| June 8, 1536 | Parliament passes another Act of Succession overturning the previous Act and now declaring the offspring of Jane Seymour and Henry VIII as lawful heirs to the throne |
| August, 1536 | There is a letter from Elizabeth's governess, Lady Margaret Bryan to Thomas Cromwell , in which she complains of the economic difficulties of the household of "lady Elizabeth" since the change in her status (from legitimate to illegitimate) following the annulment of the King's marriage to her mother Anne Boleyn, and Anne's execution in May. "Now, as my lady Elizabeth is put from that degree she was in, and what degree she is at now I know not but by hearsay, I know not how to order her or myself, or her women or grooms. I beg you to be good lord to her and hers, and that she may have raiment, for she has neither gown nor kirtle nor petticoat, nor linen for smocks, nor kerchiefs, sleeves, rails, bodystychets, handkerchiefs, mufflers, nor "begens."(The more obscure items in this list are identified by the Oxford English Dictionary (2nd edn) as: rails = nightdresses; bodystychets = corsets; begens = nightcaps.) She also reports that: "My lady has great pain with her teeth, which come very slowly." (Elizabeth was to have serious difficulties with her teeth on and off for much of her life.) |
| October 15, 1537 | baptism of brother Prince Edward at Hampton Court, carried by Edward Seymour Elizabeth participated in the ceremony |
| October 24, 1537 | death of Jane Seymour |
| late 1537 | Katherine Champernowne (later known as Kat Ashley) replaces Lady Margaret Bryan as Elizabeth's governess, they would become life long friends |
| January 6, 1540 | father marries Anne of ClevesThere is no evidence that Elizabeth ever met her father's 4th wife Anne of Cleves during their 6 month marriage. |
| July 9, 1540 | father's marriage to Anne of Cleves is annulled |
| July 28, 1540 | father marries her 2nd cousin Katherine Howard |
| February 13, 1542 | Katherine Howard is beheaded on Tower Green ( after mariage is annulled) & the young Princess Elizabeth, aged 8, swears never to marry. Later, the man who some say was the love of her life, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester would say that "he knew her better than anyone else from when she was eight years old". He also added: "and from that age she always said that she would never marry". |
| July 12, 1543 | father marries Catherine Parr |
| July 14, 1543 | Third Succession Act passed by Parliament, declaring that Mary and Elizabeth would be restored to the line of succession after Prince Edward and his heirs |
| July to September 1544 | Catherine Parr acts as Regent while Henry is at war in France. It is thought that her actions as Regent, together with her strength of character and noted dignity, as well as her later religious convictions, greatly influenced her 11 year old stepdaughter, Elizabeth |
| 1544 | William Grindal becomes her tutor |
| January 28, 1547 | father dies, brother ascends the throne as King Edward VI. Elizabeth was 13 years old. |
| 1548 | Death of tutor William Grindal, Roger Ascham would later tutor Elizabeth |