Important Tudor Dates

Important Tudor Dates

January

6^th- 1540 Cranmer marries Henry VIII to Anne of Cleves

7^th- 1536 Catherine of Aragon dies

13th – 1547 Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey is sentenced to death.

15^th-  1559 Elizabeth I crowned Queen

16th- 1501 Birth of Sir Anthony Denny. Sir Anthony was a powerful confidante of Henry VIII, served as Groom of the Stool and attended Henry on his deathbed. It was Denny that told the king to prepare himself for his coming death- brave man!

16^th- 1549 Thomas Seymour’s arrest ordered

18th- 1486  Henry VII married Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV, joining the houses of Lancaster and York.

22nd – 1552 Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, executed on Tower Hill and buried in St. Peter ad Vincula, Tower of London.

24th – 1536 Henry VIII’s horse falls heavily in the tiltyard, knocking Henry unconscious.

25^th- 1533 Anne Boleyn marries Henry VIII

28^th -1457 Henry VII born

28^th- 1547 Henry VIII dies. Edward VI ascends to the throne

29^th- 1536 Anne Boleyn miscarries

February

7^th- 1478 Sir Thomas More born

8^th- 1587 Mary Queen of Scots is executed

11th- 1466 Elizabeth of York, wife of Henry VII and mother of Henry VIII, is born.

1503 On this same day Elizabeth of York died after succumbing to a post-partum infection. She was 37 years old.

12^th – 1554 Lady Jane Grey is executed

13^th- 1542 Catherine Howard and Jane Boleyn (Lady Rochford) are executed

18^th- 1516 Mary I born

20^th – 1547 Edward VI crowned at Westminster

March

20^th- 1549 Sir Thomas Seymour executed

21^st- 1556 Thomas Cranmer burnt at the stake

24^th- 1603 Elizabeth I dies. James VI of Scotland becomes James I of England

30th- 1533 Cranmer is consecrated as archbishop in St Stephen’s Chapel

April

2^nd 1502 – Arthur, Prince of Wales, dies

13^th 1533- Anne Boleyn declared Queen publicly

17th 1534- Thomas More imprisoned in the Tower of London for refusing to take the oath of succession

18th- 1536, Imperial ambassador Eustace Chapuys bows to Anne Boleyn for the first time, acknowledging her as Henry’s Queen.

21st 1509- King Henry VII, the first monarch of the house of Tudor, died at Richmond Palace. He was succeeded by his second son, Henry VIII.

28^th 1603- Elizabeth I buried at Westminster

30th 1536- Cromwell and his colleagues laid further evidence of the ‘Queen’s immorality’ before the King, alleging that Anne Boleyn had seduced several members of the Privy Chamber including her own brother and Mark Smeaton. Henry VIII sanctioned the arrest of Mark Smeaton and summoned the Council to debate the evidence against the Queen and her alleged accomplices. ‘The Queen, meanwhile, took her pleasure unconscious of the discovery, watching dogs and animals that day fight in [Greenwich] Park’.

Mark Smeaton is arrested and taken to Cromwell’s house in Stepney for questioning…

May

1 1536 – On this day in 1536, the May Day tournament at Greenwich is interrupted by the King’s sudden departure prompted by a message he was given. What did the message reveal? It is likely to have informed the King that Smeaton had confessed to adultery with Queen Anne Boleyn and incriminated Rochford, Norris & Brereton. Norris and Rochford were later arrested and Brereton detained for questioning. Queen Anne Boleyn enjoyed her last night of freedom…

2nd 1536- Queen Anne Boleyn is arrested and taken to the Tower. This was a busy day for the Tower officials, as Anne was not the only new prisoner – Mark Smeaton, Sir Henry Norris and George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford were also committed to the Tower.

4th 1536 – Sir Francis Weston and Sir William Brereton are arrested and incarcerated in the Tower.

16^th 1532- Thomas More resigns as Chancellor of England

17^th 1536- Anne’s brother, George Boleyn, is executed

19^th 1536- Anne Boleyn is executed on Tower Green

20^th 1536- Henry VIII betrothed to Jane Seymour

21^st 1553- Lady Jane Grey marries Guildford Dudley

23^rd 1533- Cranmer’s court divorces Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon

27^th 1541- Countess of Salisbury executed

28^th 1533- Cranmer proclaims Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn married

30^th 1536- Henry marries Jane Seymour

June

1^st 1533- Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen

7th 1520 – The Field of Cloth of Gold is the name given to a place between Guines and Ardres in France, near Calais. This was the site of the historic meeting between King Henry VIII and Francis I that commenced on this day in 1520.

8^th 1533- Parliament ends Papal authority in England

10th 1540- Thomas Cromwell was arrested and imprisoned in the Tower of London. Henry would eventually regret this decision and lay the blame on his ministers.

11^th 1509- Catherine of Aragon marries Henry VIII

22^nd 1535- Bishop John Fisher executed

24^th 1509- Catherine of Aragon is crowned Queen

1532 – Birth of Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester and favourite of Elizabeth I.

28^th 1491- Henry VIII born

July

1^st 1533- Henry VIII excommunicated

1^st 1536- Elizabeth and Mary declared illegitimate by parliament

2^nd 1489- Thomas Cranmer born

6^th 1535- Sir Thomas More executed

6^th 1553- Edward VI dies

9^th 1540- Henry VIII marriage to Anne of Cleves is dissolved

10^th 1553- Lady Jane Grey proclaimed Queen

12^th 1543- Henry VIII marries Catherine Parr

20^th 1553- Mary Tudor proclaimed Queen

25^th 1554- Queen Mary marries Phillip of Spain

28^th 1540- Henry VIII marries Catherine Howard

28^th 1540- Thomas Cromwell executed

August

3^rd 1553- Queen Mary enters London with Elizabeth

8^th 1553- King Edward buried at Westminster

22^nd 1485- Battle of Bosworth Field; Richard III dies, Henry VII becomes king

Charles Brandon’s father, Sir William Brandon, was the standard-bearer of Henry Tudor and was slain by Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field.

22nd 1545-  Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, died of unknown causes at Guildford. He is buried in St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle.

26th 1533 – After a relatively trouble-free pregnancy, Anne Boleyn took to her chambers at Greenwich to do what the royal physicians and astrologers had already predicted as certainty, give birth to a son and heir to the Tudor Throne.

September

1^st 1532- Anne Boleyn made Marquess of Pembroke

4^th 1539- Henry VIII betrothed to Anne of Cleves

4^th 1588- Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, dies

7^th 1533- Anne Boleyn gives birth to Elizabeth

10^th 1533- Elizabeth is baptised at Greenwich

13^th 1521- William Cecil, Lord Burghley, born

19^th 1486- Arthur, Prince of Wales, born

21st 1578 – Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester married Lettice Knollys, a cousin of Elizabeth I, without consulting or informing the Queen.

22^nd 1515- Anne of Cleves born

27^th 1501- Catherine of Aragon arrives in England

29^th 1528- Cardinal Campeggio arrives in England to try Henry VIII annulment case

October

1st 1553- Mary I crowned Queen at Westminster Abbey

2^nd 1452- Richard III born

9th 1514- An eighteen year old Mary Tudor married 52-year-old King Louis XII of France at Abbeville.

9th 1547 – Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish novelist, poet and playright, born.

11^th 1542- Sir Thomas Wyatt, poet, dies

11th 1551- Edward Seymour, first Duke of Somerset, is arrested.

12^th 1537- Edward VI born

15^th 1537- Edward VI christened

16th 1555 – Bishops Ridley and Latimer burnt at the stake

18^th 1541- Margaret Tudor dies

24^th 1537- Jane Seymour dies

25^th 1529- Thomas More becomes Chancellor of England

30th 1485- Henry VII’s coronation in Westminster Abbey

November

14^th 1501- Catherine of Aragon marries Arthur, Prince of Wales

17th 1558- On this day in 1558 Mary I of England died aged 42 at St. James’ Palace, Elizabeth acceded the throne of England, proclaimed queen only six hours after Mary’s death in one of the most seamless transitions of power since Henry VI’s accession in 1422.

Cardinal Pole dies at Lambeth Palace

29^th 1489- Margaret Tudor born

December

8^th 1542- Mary, Queen of Scots, is born

14^th 1558- Mary I buried at Westminster

15^th 1485- Catherine of Aragon is born

21st 1549 – Marguerite de Navarre (also known as Marguerite of Angoulême and Margaret of Navarre) died aged 57. Find out more about her connection to Anne Boleyn here.

30th 1460 – Richard Plantagenêt, 3rd Duke of York is killed in the Battle of Wakefield. It is said that after his death his head was put on a pike by the victorious Lancastrian armies and displayed over Micklegate Bar at York, wearing a paper crown. Richard was the father of Edward IV and Richard III.