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Month & Day | Year & Event |
January 1st | 1511 - Katherine of Aragon gave birth to a son 1515 - <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XII_of_France" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">King Louis XII</a> of France died, Charles Brandon is sent to escort Mary Tudor home 1540 - Henry VIII met Anne of Cleves for the first time; she did not recognize him 1556 - <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Heath" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nicholas Heath</a> became Lord Chancellor |
January 2nd | 1554 - Ambassadors arrive for marriage negotiations between <a class="external" href="http://MatureSinglesOnly.com/Women/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Queen Mary</a> and Philip of Spain |
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January 4th | |
January 5th | 1511 - Katherine of Aragon's and Henry VIII's son was baptized |
January 6th | 1540 - Henry VIII married Anne of Cleves 1562 - Shane O'Neill presented at the English court |
January 7th | 1536 - Queen Katherine of Aragon died 1558 - England lost Calais to the French |
January 8th | |
January 9th | |
January 10th | |
January 11th | 1542 - Henry VIII and Charles V agreed to jointly attack France |
January 12th | 1510 - Henry VIII entered his first joust as a King 1539 - Francis I and Charles V signed the Peace of Toledo 1559 - Elizabeth I made her way to the Tower of London for her coronation |
January 13th | |
January 14th | 1539 - Nicholas Carew convicted of treason 1553 - Matrimonial treaty between <a class="external" href="http://MatureSinglesOnly.com/Women/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Queen Mary</a> and Philip of Spain made public knowledge 1559 - Elizabeth coronation procession traveled to Westminster |
January 15th | 1559 - Elizabeth I crowned Queen of England |
January 16th | 1549 - Thomas Seymour arrested 1556 - Philip of Spain became King of Spain |
January 17th | |
January 18th | 1486 - <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VII_of_England" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">King Henry VII</a> married <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_of_York" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Elizabeth of York</a> |
January 19th | 1547 - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, beheaded |
January 20th | 1557 - Gentlemen pensioners mustered before <a class="external" href="http://www.dailygiveawaycontest.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Queen Mary</a> 1558 - Parliament opened and granted Queen Mary subsidies to deal with the loss of Calais |
January 21st | 1510 - The first parliament of Henry VIII's reign met |
January 22nd | 1528 - Henry VIII declared war on Charles V 1552 - Edward Seymour was executed |
January 23rd | 1516 - King Ferdinand II of Aragon died 1516- Charles V becomes King of Spain |
January 24th | 1536 - Henry VIII knocked unconscious in a jousting accident 1555 - Great joust held at Westminster between <a class="external" href="http://www.dailygiveawaycontest.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Queen Mary</a>'s and Philip of Spain's knights |
January 25th | 1533 - King Henry VIII married Anne Boleyn in secret 1559 - Elizabeth I's first parliament met |
January 26th | 1557 - Martin Bucer's and <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Fagius" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Paul Fagius</a>'s bodies were exhumed and symbolically burned for heresy |
January 27th | 1548 - <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cranmer" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cranmer</a> prohibits the usage of ash, palms, and candles on Lent |
January 28th | 1457 - <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VII_of_England" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">King Henry VII</a> was born 1547 - King Henry VIII died 1547 - Thomas Howard to be executed, saved by Henry VIII's death |
January 29th | 1536 - Anne Boleyn gave birth to a stillborn son 1536 - The funeral of Queen Katherine of Aragon 1555 - The first Protestants are condemned to be burned for heresy under Queen Mary |
January 30th | |
January 31st | 1547 - Henry VIII's death announced, Edward VI proclaimed king |
February 1st | |
February 2nd | |
February 3rd | 1537 - Thomas FitzGerald executed |
February 4th | 1520 - Mary Boleyn married William Carey 1540 - Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves traveled in state to Westminster 1555 - John Rogers is burned for heresy at Smithfield |
February 5th | |
February 6th | 1553 - Princess Mary visits an ill King Edward |
February 7th | 1478 - Sir Thomas More was born 1526 - Henry VIII made his love for Anne Boleyn publicly known in the Shrove Tuesday jousts 1527 - Francis Bryan lost his eye in the Shrove Tuesday jousts 1531 - Henry VIII demanded the clergy to recognize him as the Supreme Head |
February 8th | 1587 - Mary, Queen of Scots was executed 1601 - Essex's Rebellion |
February 9th | 1555 - John Hooper is burned for heresy at Gloucester 1558 - Bishops, priests, and clerks commanded to take part in a general procession in London |
February 10th | 1542 - Katherine Howard taken to the Tower of London 1567 - Lord Darnley murdered |
February 11th | 1466 - <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_of_York" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Elizabeth of York</a>, mother of Henry VIII, born 1503 - <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_of_York" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Elizabeth of York</a> died |
February 12th | 1554 - <a class="external" href="http://www.nndb.com/people/016/000086755/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lady Jane Grey</a> and her husband <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Guildford_Dudley" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Guildford Dudley</a> were executed 1554 - Princess Elizabeth ordered to London under suspicion of being involved in Wyatt's plot. |
February 13th | 1542 - Katherine Howard and Jane Boleyn were executed |
February 14th | 1547 - Henry VIII buried at Windsor |
February 15th | |
February 16th | |
February 7th | |
February 18th | 1516 - Mary I was born |
February 19th | |
February 20th | 1547 - King Edward VI crowned |
February 21st | 1516 - Mary Tudor is baptized |
February 22nd | 1511 - Prince Henry son of Katherine of Aragon and Henry VIII died 1554 - Queen Mary pardoned 400 rebels |
February 23rd | |
February 24th | 1500 - Emperor Charles V was born 1525 - Richard de la Pole killed in the Battle of Pavia |
February 25th | 1558 - Princess Elizabeth arrived in London 1570 - Elizabeth I excommunicated by the Pope 1601 - Robert Devereux executed for treason |
February 26th | |
February 27th | 1545 - <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ancrum_Moor" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Battle of Ancrum Moor</a> 1548 - <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cranmer" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cranmer</a> ordered that candles, ashes, and palms cease to be used at Lent 1557 - A Russian ambassador arrived in England 1560- Duke of Norfolk signed the Treaty of Berwick |
February 28th | 1558 - Princess Elizabeth met with Queen Mary |
February 29th | |
March 1st | |
March 2nd | |
March 3rd | 1516 - <a class="external" href="http://www.nndb.com/people/074/000095786/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Margaret Tudor</a> returns to the Tudor court |
March 4th | |
March 5th | 1496 - Henry VII commissions the Cabots to explore the New World 1549 - Act of Attainder passed against Baron Sudeley |
March 6th | |
March 7th | 1530 - Pope Clement VII forbade Henry VIII from marrying Anne Boleyn 1556 - People take a shooting comet as a warning of things to come |
March 8th | 1539 - Nicholas Carew beheaded 1551 - Hooper made Bishop of Gloucester |
March 9th | 1525 - Henry VIII first heard news of Richard de la Pole's death and ordered a Te Deum in London |
March 10th | 1524 - Henry VIII nearly seriously injured in a joust against the Duke of Suffolk |
March 11th | |
March 12th | 1538/9 - Sir Thomas Boleyn, Earl of Wiltshire died |
March 13th | |
March 14th | |
March 15th | 1532 - Henry VIII's clergy surrendered their legislative power to him |
March 16th | 1532 - Thomas More resigned as Lord Chancellor of England 1534 - Church of England breaks allegiance from Pope |
March 17th | 1473~ <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_IV_of_Scotland" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">James IV</a> was born in Stirling Castle Scotland |
March 18th | 1496 - Princess Mary Tudor was born, sister of Henry VIII 1554- Princess Elizabeth Tudor is imprisoned on Palm Sunday in the Tower of London |
March 19th | |
March 20th | 1549 - Thomas Seymour was executed 1557 - Philip of Spain returned to England |
March 21st | 1556 - Thomas Cranmer was burned at the stake |
March 22nd | |
March 23rd | 1534 - An Act of Succession is passed recognizing the rights of the children of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn to succeed the throne 1540 - Waltham Abbey, the last surviving monastery in England, was surrendered to Henry VIII 1557 - Queen Mary and Philip of Spain ride through London |
March 24th | 1543 - Thomas Cranmer accused of heresy, <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cranmer" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cranmer</a> later convinces Henry of his innocence 1603 - Elizabeth I died |
March 25th | 1555 - This Lady Day, jousts between Queen Mary's and Philip of Spain's knights 1559 - Elizabeth I traveled up and down the Thames with drums, trumpets, and flutes escorting her. |
March 26th | 1533 - Anne Boleyn is presented to the world at last as Queen Consort |
March 27th | |
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March 29th | |
March 30th | 1533 - Thomas Cranmer made Archbishop of Canterbury |
March 31st | 1547- Francis I died |
April 1st | 1548 - <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cranmer" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cranmer</a> includes English into the Mass this Easter Sunday, and bans some traditional Easter practices |
April 2nd | 1502 - <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur,_Prince_of_Wales" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Prince Arthur Tudor</a> died 1552 - King Edward contracts smallpox and measles, possibly damaging his immune system |
April 3rd | 1546 - To improve morals, Henry VIII closed the brothels in Southwark 1559 - New Bills of Supremacy and Uniformity were introduced to Parliament |
April 4th | |
April 5th | 1515 - Franco-English alliance back on 1533 - Convocation ruled that Henry VIII's and Katherine Aragon's marriage was invalid |
April 6th | 1590 - Francis Walsingham died 1533 - Bishop Fisher arrested 1560 - Lord Grey of Wilton laid siege to Leith |
April 7th | 1555 - Observant friars return to Greenwich 1559 - Peace of Cateau-Cambresis ended England's war with France and Scotland |
April 8th | |
April 9th | 1533 - Henry VIII ordered Katherine of Aragon to cease using the title Queen |
April 10th | 1550 - Edward Seymour readmitted to the King's council |
April 11th | 1512 - Margaret Tudor gave birth to Prince James 1553 - King Edward departs for Greenwich 1554 - Thomas Wyatt the Younger was executed |
April 12th | 1533 - Anne Boleyn declared Queen 1534 - Thomas More was ordered to take the <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_Respecting_the_Oath_to_the_Succession" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">oath of succession</a> |
April 13th | |
April 14th | 1555 - This Easter Day, a priest was assaulted at St. Margaret's Church in Westminster during the Eucharist ceremony |
April 15th | |
April 16th | |
April 17th | 1534 - Thomas More taken to the Tower for refusing to take the <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_Respecting_the_Oath_to_the_Succession" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">oath of succession</a> 1554 - Sir Nicholas Throckmorton acquitted of treason (his jurymen were then arrested, and Throckmorton remained in jail) |
April 18th | 1540 - Thomas Cromwell became Earl of Essex |
April 19th | |
April 20th | 1534 - Prominent non-clerical Londoners given the <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_Respecting_the_Oath_to_the_Succession" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">oath of succession</a> 1534 - Elizabeth Baron and her followers executed |
April 21st | 1509 - King Henry VII dies, this news is kept secret 1509 - King Henry VIII ascends the throne |
April 22nd | |
April 23rd | 1549 - Martin Bucer and <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Fagius" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Paul Fagius</a> arrive in England 1559 - <a class="external" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0240159/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Robert Dudley</a> and Thomas Howard made Knights of the Garter on this St. George's Day |
April 24th | 1509 - Henry VIII is officially proclaimed king. He orders the arrests of two unpopular ministers of his father's, <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Empson" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Richard Empson</a> and <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Dudley" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Edmund Dudley</a> 1546 - Henry VIII chartered the English Navy 1558 - <a class="external" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0835791/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mary Stuart</a> married Dauphin Francois |
April 25th | 1557 - Thomas Stafford captured Scarborough Castle in Yorkshire and declared himself Duke of Buckingham and a defender against Spanish threat |
April 26th | |
April 27th | |
April 28th | 1557 - Henry Neville recaptured Scarborough Castle from Thomas Stafford |
April 29th | |
April 30th | 1517 - The riots known as "Evil May Day" began 1527 - Treaty of Westminster was signed 1536 - Mark Smeaton was arrested 1546 - Henry VIII ordered the brothels in Southwark to be closed in order to "improve morals" 1555 - Bells wrung in London for the birth of Queen Mary's son, this proved false |
May 1st | |
May 2nd | 1536 - Anne Boleyn, and George Boleyn were arrested 1550 - Joan of Kent burned at the stake for heresy |
May 3rd | 1544 - Thomas Wriothesley made lord chancellor |
May 4th | 1547 - Catherine Parr and Thomas Seymour married |
May 5th | |
May 6th | 1527 - Sack of Rome 1541 - Henry VIII ordered a new Bible placed in every church |
May 7th | |
May 8th | 1539 - Henry VIII mustered 15,000 men in response to the Peace of Toledo 1559 - Elizabeth I assented to new Acts of Supremacy and Uniformity 1560 - English forces under Lord Grey of Wilton repulsed at Leith |
May 9th | 1509 - Henry VII's body taken to St. Paul's |
May 10th | 1533 -The Dunstable Priory inquisition into the validity of Henry VIII's and Katherine of Aragon's marriage 1553 - English ships set sail from Tilbury in search of a northeast passage for Asia. |
May 11th | 1500 - Reginald Pole was born |
May 12th | 1521 - Martin Luther's books were burned by Bishop Fisher at Paul's Cross 1553 - <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Guildford_Dudley" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Guildford Dudley</a> and <a class="external" href="http://www.nndb.com/people/016/000086755/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lady Jane Grey</a> were married |
May 13th | 1516 - Princess Mary Tudor married Charles Brandon at Greenwich |
May 14th | 1517 - Those arrested in the "Evil May Day" riots were paraded before the King, Queen, and their court in halters |
May 15th | 1532 - The clergy turned over its legislative independence to the Crown 1536 - Anne Boleyn and George Boleyn were found guilty of treason 1567 - <a class="external" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0835791/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mary Stuart</a> married James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell |
May 16th | 1517 - <a class="external" href="http://www.nndb.com/people/074/000095786/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Margaret Tudor</a> returned to Scotland 1532 - Sir Thomas More resigned as Chancellor of England |
May 17th | 1521 - Edward Stafford was executed 1527 - Cardinal Wolsey began a secret court to determine whether Henry VIII was unlawfully married to Katherine of Aragon 1536 - George Boleyn , Mark Smeaton, William Brereton Henry Norris & Francis Weston were executed; Anne Boleyn's marriage to Henry VIII declared invalid |
May 18th | Jane Seymour |
May 19th | 1499 - Queen Katherine of Aragon is married by proxy to Prince Arthur 1536 - Anne Boleyn was executed 1539 - Henry VIII given the right to all of the monasteries 1554- Queen Mary I released Princess Elizabeth from the Tower of London 1568 - Elizabeth I imprisoned Mary, Queen of Scots |
May 20thJane Seymour | 1536 - King Henry VIII betrothed to Jane Seymour |
May 21st | 1527 - Philip II was born 1553 - <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Jane_Grey" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jane Grey</a> married <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Guildford_Dudley" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Guildford Dudley</a> |
May 22nd | 1538 - Friar John Forrest burned at the stake, the only Catholic to burn during Henry VIII's reign |
May 23rd | 1533 - King Henry VIII & Queen Katherine of Aragon's marriage annulled by Thomas Cranmer 1555 - Paul IV became Pope |
May 24th | 1562 - Holinshed's Chronicle reported that on this day, a "monstrous birth" occured at Chichester in Sussex. |
May 25th | 1551- London shaken by a great eathquake |
May 26th | 1520 - Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon met with Charles V at Dover |
May 27th | 1541 - Lady Margaret Pole was executed |
May 28th | 1533 - King Henry VIII & Anne Boleyn's marriage publicly announced 1557 - Thomas Stafford beheaded for treason |
May 29th | 1522 - Henry VIII declared war on France 1543 - Catherine Parr's Prayers, Or Meditations was published 1599 - Essex's army was defeated at Deputy's Pass 1559 - Edmund Grindal becomes Bishop of London |
May 30th | 1536 - King Henry VIII married Jane Seymour 1529 - The Court at Blackfriars opened 1533 - Anne Boleyn begins her procession from the Tower to Whitehall Palace for her coronation |
May 31st | |
June 1st | 1519 - Henry Fitzroy, acknowledged to be King Henry VIII's son, was baptized. 1533 - Anne Boleyn was crowned Queen |
June 2nd | 1510- <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Brandon,_Baroness_Monteagle" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mary Brandon</a> daughter to Charles Brandon and second wife Anne Browne is born. 1553 - King Edward gives approval to Cranmer's 42 Articles of Faith |
June 3rd | |
June 4th | 1536 - Jane Seymour proclaimed Queen 1561 - Lighting strikes the steeple of St. Paul's, which causes the roof to catch afire. |
June 5th | |
June 6th | 1520 - The Field of Cloth of Gold 1522 - Henry VIII and Charles V entered London to great fanfare to plan war against France 1549 - Protestations in Cornwall against the new Book of Common Prayer |
June 7th | 1525 - Henry Fitzroy was made Knight of the Garter 1557 - War declared against France |
June 8th | |
June 9th | 1555 - Unsuccessful peace conference between England, France, and Spain concludes |
June 10th | 1540 - Thomas Cromwell arrested for high treason |
June 11th | 1509 - Henry VIII married Katherine of Aragon |
June 12th | 1553 - King Edward draws up the paperwork to name <a class="external" href="http://www.nndb.com/people/016/000086755/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lady Jane Grey</a> as his successor. |
June 13th | |
June 14th | 1557 - Paul IV demanded that <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Pole" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cardinal Pole</a> return to Rome under suspicion of heresy |
June 15th | 1519 - Henry Fitzroy was born 1567 - Battle Carberry Hill |
June 16th | 1487 - Battle of Stoke |
June 17th | 1497 - Battle of Blackheath |
June 18th | 1525 - Henry Fitzroy made Duke of Richmond and Somerset, and Lieutenant-General of the North 1529 - Katherine of Aragon reputed the ability of the Court at Blackfriars to try her 1541 - The Irish Parliament changed Henry's title from Lord of Ireland to King of Ireland |
June 19th | 1540 - Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex arrested & imprisoned 1544 - The Siege of Boulogne began 1566 - <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_I_of_England" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">King James VI</a> was born |
June 20th | 1557 - Paul IV named William Peto to replace Reginald Pole in England, but Mary refused to allow Pole to return to Rome or Peto to become legate |
June 21st | 1529 - Katherine of Aragon fell upon her knees before Henry VIII at the Court of Blackfriars to proclaim her loyalty 1559 - Five bishops removed from their positions for refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy |
June 22nd | 1527 - Henry VIII informed Katherine of Aragon that they were not man and wife 1535 - Bishop Fisher was executed 1536 - Princess Mary acknowledged herself a bastard |
June 23rd | 1509 - Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon leave the Tower of London for their coronation at Westminster Abbey 1553 - English ships, after being diverted once before, set sail in search of a Northwest Passage |
June 24th | 1509 -Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon are jointly crowned 1533 - Henry's sister Mary Tudor died |
June 25th | 1529 - Katherine of Aragon was found in contempt of the court of Blackfriars for not attending |
June 26th | |
June 27th | |
June 28th | 1491 - King Henry VIII was born 1519 - Charles V elected Holy Roman Emperor 1541 - Leonard Grey executed 1546 - Anne Askew convicted of heresy |
June 29th | 1509 - Lady Margaret Beaufort died 1540 - Thomas Cromwell found guilty of treason by attainder |
June 30th | 1537 - Lord Darcy beheaded 1541 - Henry VIII and Katherine Howard go on Henry's first northern progress 1551 - Dr. Wooton defends Princess Mary's commitment to Catholicism to the Council |
July 1st | 1536 - Mary and Elizabeth declared illegitimate by Parliament 1543 - The <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Greenwich" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Treaties of Greenwich</a> are signed, approving of a marriage between Prince Edward and Mary, Queen of Scots |
July 2nd | 1489 - Thomas Cranmer was born |
July 3rd | 1557 - Mary and Philip set out for Dover for war with France |
July 4th | |
July 5th | |
July 6th | 1535 - Thomas More was executed 1553 - King Edward VI died 1557 - Philip of Spain left England for the last time 1560 - Treaty of Edinburgh signed |
July 7th | |
July 8th | 1549 - <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kett%27s_Rebellion" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Robert Kett</a> leads a protest march against the new Book of Common Prayer |
July 9th | 1540 - King Henry VIII & Anne of Cleves' marriage dissolved 1551 - English currency is further debased 1553 - Bishop Ridley announced at the pulpit that Mary and Elizabeth were bastards |
July 10th | 1553 - <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Jane_Grey" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jane Grey</a> declared queen of England 1559 - Henry II died from a jousting accident; Francis II and Mary, Queen of Scots become King and Queen of France |
July 11th | 1531 - Henry VIII left on royal progress without Katherine of Aragon, marking the last time they saw one another. 1533 - Pope Clement VII ordered Henry VIII to abandon Anne Boleyn; a bull of excommunication was drawn up but suspended in hopes the King would obey the Clement's rulingKing Henry VIII |
July 12th | 1537 - Robert Aske executed 1543 - King Henry VIII married Catherine Parr 1549 - Kett's Rebellion |
July 13th | |
July 14th | 1514 - Cardinal <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Bainbridge" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Christopher Bainbridge</a> died 1544 - Henry VIII arrived in Calais for the Siege of Boulogne |
July 15th | |
July 16th | 1546 - Anne Askew burned at the stake |
July 17th | |
July 18th | 1509 - <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Dudley" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Edmund Dudley</a> convicted of treason |
July 19th | 1545 - The English navy engaged the French navy near the Isle of Wight and Portsmouth, the Mary Rose sunk 1551 - Marriage arranged between Henry III of France's daughter Elizabeth and King Edward 1553 - Many of Queen Jane's supporters defect and proclaim Mary Tudor as Queen of England |
July 20th | 1554 - Prince Philip arrived in England |
July 21st | 1553 - John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, arrested |
July 22nd | 1536 - Henry Fitzroy died 1549 - <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kett%27s_Rebellion" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Robert Kett</a> and his fellow protests attack and occupy Norwich |
July 23rd | 1553 - Duke of Northumberland surrenders to Mary Tudor's forces |
July 24th | 1567 - Mary Queen of Scots abdicated |
July 25th | 1554 - Queen Mary I and Prince Philip married |
July 26th | 1588- 4,000 men assembled at Tilbury fort built on the Thames estuary in Essex |
July 27th | |
July 28th | 1540 - King Henry VIII married Katherine Howard 1540 - Sir Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex executed |
July 29th | 1565 - Mary Queen of Scots married Lord Darnley |
July 30th | |
July 31st | |
August 1st | |
August 2nd | 1521 - Wolsey arrived in Calais to act as a peacemaker between France and the Holy Roman Empire |
August 3rd | 1549 - John Russell and William Grey attack rebels at <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyst_St_Mary" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Clyst St Mary</a> 1553 - Queen Mary enters London triumphant over <a class="external" href="http://www.nndb.com/people/016/000086755/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lady Jane Grey</a> 1554 - Queen Mary and Philip of Spain set out for London |
August 4th | 1549 - John Russell and William Grey continue to attack rebels at <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyst_St_Mary" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Clyst St Mary</a> |
August 5th | 1549 - John Russell and William Grey continue to attack rebels at Clyst St Mary |
August 6th | 1514 - <a class="external" href="http://www.nndb.com/people/074/000095786/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Margaret Tudor</a> married Archibald Douglas |
August 7th | 1514 - Henry VIII signed a treaty in which his sister Mary would marry the King of France 1549 - Mary, Queen of Scots sails for France |
August 8th | 1503 - Princess Margaret Tudor married King <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_IV_of_Scotland" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">James IV</a> 1553 - King Edward buried with Protestant rites 1588 - Defeat of the Spanish Armada |
August 9th | 1561 - Elizabeth I declared that bishop's and university fellows' wives could not live in the colleges or cathedral churches. |
August 10th | 1512 - Henry VIII's ship the Regent sunk in flames 1553 - Queen Mary holds an obsequy for King Edward |
August 11th | 1534 - The Friars Observant evicted from their religious house 1553 - Queen Mary has a requiem mass held for King Edward |
August 12th | |
August 13th | |
August 14th | |
August 15th | 1550 - Due to religious policies, London was greatly divided on whether or not to celebrate this Assumption Day |
August 16th | 1513 - Henry's VIII's forces win the Battle of the Spurs 1531 - Thomas Bilney burned for distributing Tyndale's Bible |
August 17th | 1510 - <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Dudley" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Edmund Dudley</a> was executed |
August 18th | 1514 - Mary Tudor marries <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XII_of_France" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Louis XII</a> by proxy 1527 - A new treaty was made between France and England, which included the promising of Mary Tudor to the Duke of Orleans 1549 - Battle of Samford Courteney 1553 - Queen Mary issued a proclamation urging all Englishmen to turn to the Catholic faith 1554 - Queen Mary and Philip of Spain arrive in London for the first time as a married couple 1557 - French soldiers defeated at Battle of St. Quentin - minus English help 1561 - Mary, Queen of Scots makes her way to Scotland 1562 - Elizabeth I watched Thomas Sackville's and Thomas Norton's The Tragedy of Gorboduc |
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August 21st | |
August 22nd | 1485 - Battle of Bosworth Field 1532 - <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Warham" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Archbishop Warham</a> of Canterbury died 1545 - Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk died |
August 23rd | |
August 24th | 1535 - Thomas FitzGerald surrendered to English forces 1572 - St. Bartholemew's Day Massacre |
August 25th | 1549 - Warwick's troops attacked and entered Norwich |
August 26th | 1555 - Queen Mary and Philip of Spain depart from Whitehall in preparation for Philip's return to the Low Countries |
August 27th | 1557 - Spanish and English forces captured St. Quentin |
August 28th | |
August 29th | 1538 - Geoffrey Pole was arrested on suspicion of being in contact with his brother, Reginald Pole |
August 30th | 1525 - Treaty of the More signed |
August 31st | |
September 1st | 1532 - Anne Boleyn made <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquess_of_Pembroke" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Marquess of Pembroke</a> |
September 2nd | 1557 - Bells wrung and bonfires for the capture of St. Quentin |
September 3rd | |
September 4th | 1539 - King Henry VIII betrothed to Anne of Cleves |
September 5th | 1548 - Catherine Parr died 1557 - Bishop Stephen Gardiner imprisoned |
September 6th | 1525 - Peace declared between England and France |
September 7th | 1533 - Princess Elizabeth Tudor was born 1533 - <a class="external" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0240159/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Robert Dudley</a> was born |
September 8th | 1560 - Amy Robsart, wife of <a class="external" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0240159/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Robert Dudley</a>, found dead |
September 9th | 1513 - Battle of Flodden, <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_IV_of_Scotland" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">James IV</a> dies on the field |
September 10th | 1533 - Princess Elizabeth Tudor was baptised at Greenwich |
September 11th | |
September 12th | 1555 - The first day of Cranmer's trial began |
September 13th | |
September 14th | |
September 15th | |
September 16th | 1541 - Henry VIII arrived in York, but was not able to meet with James V |
September 17th | |
September 18th | 1544 - Henry VIII rides triumphantly through Boulogne |
September 19th | |
September 20th | 1486 - <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur,_Prince_of_Wales" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Prince Arthur Tudor</a> was born 1545 - Henry VIII's health has declined to the point where the royal stamp is now affixed to documents requiring his signature 1562 - Elizabeth I and Huguenot leaders agreed to the Treaty of Hampton Court |
September 21st | 1578 - <a class="external" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0240159/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Robert Dudley</a> married Lettice Knollys |
September 22nd | 1515 - Anne of Cleves born |
September 23rd | |
September 24th | 1561 - Katherine Grey and the Earl of Hertford's son is born, causing much scandal |
September 25th | 1506 - King Philip I of Castile "the Fair" died 1534 - Pope Clement VII died |
September 26th | |
September 27th | |
September 28th | |
September 29th | |
September 30th | 1515 - <a class="external" href="http://www.nndb.com/people/074/000095786/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Margaret Tudor</a> fled to England 1544 - Henry VIII returned back to England from his triumph in Boulogne 1553 - Queen Mary's coronation procession began |
October 1st | 1549 - Edmund Bonner removed from his position as Bishop of London for speaking out against new religious legislation 1549 - Edward Seymour moves King Edward from Hampton Court to Windsor Castle after hearing of plots against him 1553 - Queen Mary I crowned queen of England |
October 2nd | 1501 - Katherine of Aragon arrived in Plymouth, England 1514 - Mary Tudor sets off for France |
October 3rd | |
October 4th | 1518 - A treaty is signed between France and England that includes a betrothal between Princess Mary and the young dauphin 1539 - Henry VIII agreed to marry Anne of Cleves |
October 5th | 1518 - Princess Mary Tudor and the Dauphin were officially betrothed 1553 - Queen Mary's first Parliament meets and declares <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_of_Aragon" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Katherine of Aragon</a>'s marriage to Henry VIII legitimate, and also declares the Queen's birth legitimate. |
October 6th | 1536 - William Tyndale executed for heresy 1557 - Bells wrung and bonfires lit for the reconciliation of the Pope with the Emperor |
October 7th | |
October 8th | 1514 - Mary Tudor meet <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XII_of_France" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Louis XII</a> and their marriage was celebrated |
October 9th | 1514 - Princess Mary Tudor married <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XII_of_France" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">King Louis XII</a> 1529 - Wolsey indicted for using his power illegally 1536 - The <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrimage_of_Grace" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Pilgrimage of Grace</a> began |
October 10th | 1549 - Edward Seymour surrenders his position at Windsor Castle 1562 - Elizabeth I fell ill with smallpox, nearly died of the it, and swore that nothing improper ever occured between her and Robert Dudley |
October 11th | 1521 - Henry VIII proclaimed "Defender of the Faith" 1532 - Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn go to Calais 1537 - A procession marches through London to pray for Jane Seymour's deliverance from a difficult labor 1542 - Thomas Wyatt died 1551 - Earl of Warwick made the Duke of Northumberland 1537 - Lady Jane Grey was born |
October 12th | 1537 - Prince Edward Tudor born |
October 13th | 1534 - Alexander Farnese was elected Pope Paul III 1549 - The Protectorate comes to an end |
October 14th | |
October 15th | 1537 - Prince Edward Tudor was baptized |
October 16th | 1551 - Edward Seymour arrested for high treason 1555 - Latimer and Ridley were burned |
October 17th | |
October 18th | 1529 - Wolsey ordered to hand over the great seal 1541 - Princess Margaret Tudor died |
October 19th | |
October 20th | 1536 - Thomas Darcy surrendered Pontefract Castle to Robert Aske, then joined the leadership of the <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrimage_of_Grace" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Pilgrimage of Grace</a> |
October 21st | 1542 - The Duke of Norfolk attacked Scotland |
October 22nd | |
October 23rd | |
October 24th | 1537 - Jane Seymour died 1542- James V led an attack into England |
October 25th | 1529 - Thomas More became Chancellor of England 1532 - Henry VIII and Francis I return to Calais, where Anne Boleyn performed in a masque with six others 1555 - Philip of Spain became ruler of the Low Countries |
October 26th | 1529 - Thomas More took the oath of the Chancellor of Engalnd 1536 - Talks began between the Duke of Norfolk and Robert Aske began |
October 27th | 1553 - Queen Mary announces to her council that she will marry Philip of Spain |
October 28th | 1561 - Candlesticks removed from the Chapel Royal, but not the cross, to the disappoint of Elizabeth I's staunch Protestant subjects |
October 29th | |
October 30th | 1485 - King Henry VII crowned king of England |
October 31st | 1517 - Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses |
November 1st | |
November 2nd | 1541 - Henry VIII was informed that Katherine Howard was involved in two affairs before their marriage |
November 3rd | |
November 4th | 1530 - Wolsey was arrested 1538 - Margaret Pole, Henry Pole, and Henry Courtenay were arrested |
November 5th | 1514 - Mary Tudor crowned queen of France |
November 6th | 1515 - Mary Tudor triumphantly entered Paris 1541 - Henry VIII abandoned Katherine Howard at Hampton Court |
November 7th | |
November 8th | 1541 - Katherine Howard admitted to the accusations against her to Thomas Cranmer |
November 9th | 1518 - During the night and into the next day, Katherine of Aragon gives birth to a stillborn daughter, her last pregnancy. 1569 - Northern Rebellion begins |
November 10th | |
November 11th | |
November 12th | 1532 - Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn set sail for England from Calais 1537 - Jane Seymour's body moved from Hampton Court to St. George's Chapel 1554 - Queen Mary and Philip of Spain oversaw the opening of Parliament 1555 - Early in the morning, Lord Chancellor Gardiner died |
November 13th | |
November 14th | 1501 - Prince Arthur Tudor married Katherine of Aragon |
November 15th | |
November 16th | 1537 - Cluniac house at Lewes monastery surrendered its lands - the dissolutions of the larger monasteries thus began 1553 - Queen Mary's parliament asks her to marry an Englishman |
November 17th | 1558 - Mary I died, Elizabeth I ascended the throne 1558 - <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Pole" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cardinal Pole</a> died |
November 18th | 1523 - Cardinal Giulio de' Medici became Pope Clement VII |
November 19th | |
November 20th | 1543 - Hans Holbein died from plague |
November 21st | 1548 - Tower of London catches afire due to a barrel of gunpowder, one prisoner dies |
November 22nd | |
November 23rd | 1499 - Perkin Warbeck was executed 1533 - The Benedictine nun Elizabeth Barton publicly denounced at Paul's Cross |
November 24th | 1504 - Queen <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_I_of_Castile" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Isabella of Castille</a> died |
November 25th | 1487 - Elizabeth of York crowned queen of England 1533 - Henry Fitzroy married Mary Howard 1542 - Battle of Solway Moss |
November 26th | |
November 27th | |
November 28th | 1554 - Cardinal Reginald Pole addressed Queen Mary's Parliament 1556 - Princess Elizabeth rode into London with a great company |
November 29th | 1489 - Princess Margaret Tudor was born 1530 - Thomas Wolsey died 1556 - Doctor Feckenham created as the Abbott of Westminster |
November 30th | 1554 - St. Andrew's Day, England was reconciled to the Roman Catholic Church |
December 1st | 1521 - Pope Leo X died 1541 - Francis Dereham and Thomas Culpepper convicted of treason 1551 - Edward Seymour put on trial for treason |
December 2nd | 1555 - Legantine synod opened by Reginald Pole at Westminster |
December 3rd | 1536 - Pilgrims of Grace drew together a list of grievances for Henry VIII |
December 4th | 1555 - Cranmer officially removed as the Archbishop of Canterbury |
December 5th | 1560 - Francis II died and Charles IX (then 10) became King of France |
December 6th | |
December 7th | |
December 8th | 1542 - Mary Queen of Scots born |
December 9th | 1538 - Henry Pole and Edward Courtenay were beheaded |
December 10th | 1541 - Francis Dereham drawn and quartered, and Thomas Culpepper beheaded |
December 11th | 1543 - Scottish Parliament broke the marriage alliance between Mary, Queen of Scots and Prince Edward |
December 12th | 1546 - The Duke of Norfolk and Henry Howard were arrested |
December 13th | 1558 - Elizabeth I holds a requiem mass for Mary I 1512 - Mark Smeaton is born |
December 14th | 1542 - James V of Scotland died, week-old daughter Mary became Queen of Scotland |
December 15th | |
December 16th | 1485 - Queen Katherine of Aragon was born |
December 17th | 1559 - Matthew Parker made Archbishop of Canterbury |
December 18th | |
December 19th | 1542 - Noble survivors of James V's expedition into England paraded through London |
December 20th | |
December 21st | |
December 22nd | 1515 - Archbishop Warhap resigned from the lord chancellorship of Canterbury 1590 - <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_I_of_England" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">King James VI</a> and Anne of Denmark married |
December 23rd | 1527 - Clement VII gave Henry VIII a dispensation to marry again, but did not state that Henry and Katherine of Aragon's marriage had been invalid |
December 24th | 1515 - Thomas Wolsey rises to the lord chancellorship of Canterbury 1541 - A fire broke out in John Williams's, the master of the jewels house, and in the hubbub, many of the royal jewels were stolen 1601 - Battle of Kinsale |
December 25th | 1528 - Henry VIII spends Christmas with Anne Boleyn at Greenwich 1530 - Henry VIII spends Christmas with Katherine of Aragon at Greenwich 1558 - Elizabeth I walks out of mass after Bishop Oglethorpe elevated the host |
December 26th | |
December 27th | 1539 - Anne of Cleves arrived at Deal for her marriage to Henry VIII 1542 - Captured Scotsmen swore allegiance to Henry VIII and swore to uphold the marriage agreement between Prince Edward and Mary, Queen of Scots |
December 28th | |
December 29th | |
December 30th | 1546 - Henry VIII approved a new version of his will |
December 31st | 1509 - Katherine of Aragon delivers of her first child, a still born daughter who was born early. 1510 - Katherine of Aragon goes into labour with her second child - a boy, Henry - a year to the day she delivered her first. 1557 - Surprise attack on Calais by the Duke of Guise began 1558 - Elizabeth I ordered that the gospel, epistle, and litany be read in English |