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Henry VII held a tournament at the Tower of London....(more)

Oct 2 After several months of travelling Catherine of Aragon finally arrived at...(more)

Nov 14 After several days of celebration and reception Prince Arthur and Catherine of...(more)

Jan Prince Arthur took up his position as governor of the Welsh Marches and moved...(more)

Apr Prince Arthur fell ill at Ludlow with consumption, an illness that he seems to...(more)

Oct The title of Duke of Cornwall is given to the eldest son of the reigning...(more)

Henry VII ordered the construction of a new Lady chapel at the east end of...(more)

William Wareham is elected to the post of Archbishop of Canterbury by Julius...(more)

Feb Elizabeth, Henry VII's wife died in childbirth....(more)

Jun Henry VII and his eldest daughter started their journey to Scotland where the...(more)

Jun 23 Catherine of Aragon was now a widow and on the 23/24 of June the marriage was...(more)

Aug 8 The marriage of the 30 year old Scottish king to the 14 year old daughter of...(more)

Nov Isabella of Castile died....(more)

Pope Julius II gave permission for the marriage between Catherine of Aragon and...(more)

Tournaments were held at Carew Castle to celebrate the appointment of the...(more)

Thomas Wolsey was given the position of royal chaplain to Henry VII....(more)

Sep 19 This earthquake was felt throughout Scotland and England....(more)

Thomas Wolsey was given the position of royal almoner to Henry VIII....(more)

Apr 21 Henry fell in and within just over a day he died of the illness. His body was...(more)

Jun 11 Henry VIII married Catherine at Greenwich....(more)

Jun 24 Henry was crowned at Westminster Abbey....(more)

Jan 1 Catherine gave birth to a boy on the first of January but the child did not...(more)

May 1 Henry VIII held a jousting tournament at Greenwich Palace....(more)

Westminster Palace was damaged by a fire in the year. The Palace had been used...(more)

A fire at the Tower of London damages St. Peter's chapel within the castle...(more)

Pope Julius II declared Louis XII was no longer the rightful King of France....(more)

Thomas Wolsey organised Henry's invasion into France ensuring the army was...(more)

Jun Henry prepared an invasion fleet and set sail for Calais....(more)

Aug 16 The French cavalry arrived to assist the town of Therouanne which was under...(more)

Sep After the victory at Therouanne, Henry turned to Tournai. The town fell to the...(more)

Sep 9 James IV of Scotland's invasion of England came to an end at the Battle of...(more)

Wolsey started the construction of his magnificent palace at Hampton Court....(more)

Feb 6 Thomas Wolsey was rewarded with the Bishopric of Lincoln....(more)

Aug Wolsey negotiated a peace treaty between England and France whereby Louis XII...(more)

Aug A peace treaty was negotiated by Thomas Wolsey with France. One of the terms...(more)

Sep Thomas Wolsey is promoted to the position of Archbishop of York....(more)

Jan 1 Louis XII died at the age of 52 leaving Mary a widow. His nephew, Francis,...(more)

Feb Princess Mary ran away with Charles Brandon after the death of Louis XII. They...(more)

May 13 Princess Mary, the younger sister of Henry VIII, married Charles Brandon, the...(more)

Sep 22 Anne of Cleves was born in Duesseldorf, Germany....(more)

The book entitled 'Utopia' was written by Sir Thomas More and published in this...(more)

Feb 18 All of Catherine of Aragon's children died in infancy until Princess Mary was...(more)

Pope Leo X made proposals for a new crusade and sent word to the leading...(more)

Londoners were affected by a wide-spread illness forcing Henry VIII and his...(more)

Oct A treaty was signed in London between the major European countries, England,...(more)

Aug 10 Ferdinand Magellan set sail from Seville with five ships in search of a...(more)

Jun 7 Meeting between Henry VIII and Francis I of France somewhere between Guines and...(more)

Nov This treaty was conducted in secrecy at Bruges between Charles V and Thomas...(more)

Anne Boleyn came to the attention of Henry VIII. Anne was a lady-in-waiting for...(more)

May To end the marriage between Henry and Catherine Wolsey set up a secret tribunal...(more)

Jun 22 Henry VIII told Catherine of Aragon that their marriage was invalid because she...(more)

Nov 29 Thomas Wolsey died at Leicester....(more)

Jan 25 Henry VIII married Anne Boleyn at Whitehall Palace on or around the 25th of...(more)

Spring A statute passed by Parliament called the 'Act of Succession' declared that...(more)

May 23 Thomas Cranmer declared that the marriage between Henry VIII and Catherine of...(more)

May 28 Thomas Cranmer declared that the marriage between Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn...(more)

Jun 1 Anne Boleyn was crowned Queen of England at Westminster Abbey by the Archbishop...(more)

Sep 7 Anne gave birth to Elizabeth a healthy girl at Greenwich Palace. Henry had...(more)

Jan Catherine of Aragon died. It was believed that she had been poisoned but it is...(more)

May 2 Anne Boleyn was arrested at Greenwich after the May-Day jousting tournament on...(more)

May 19 Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII, was executed for treason and...(more)

May 30 Henry married his third wife Jane Seymour the former lady-in-waiting to both...(more)

Oct 2 The short rebellion that took place for a couple of weeks in October was the...(more)

Oct 21 Following the earlier Lincoln rebellion, a larger rebellion began further north...(more)

Oct 27 The Duke of Norfolk met with leaders of the rebels on Doncaster Bridge where...(more)

Dec At Pontefract the rebel leaders presented a list of demands. The rebels were...(more)

Qtr 1 Although the main leaders of the Pilgrimage of Grace were remaining peaceful...(more)

Summer Henry VIII summonsed the leaders of the Pilgrimage of Grace to him in London...(more)

Oct 12 Jane Seymour gave birth to Edward at Hampton Court. The birth had complications...(more)

Oct 24 Jane Seymour died after complications with the birth of Edward VI. She was...(more)

Jan 6 Although Henry was disappointed that Anne did not resemble her portrait the...(more)

Jul 9 The marriage of Henry VIII to Anne of Cleves was annulled just a few months...(more)

Jul 28 Just weeks after the marriage to Anne of Cleves was annulled Henry married...(more)

Feb 13 Found guilty of adultery and therefore treason, Catherine Howard was sentenced...(more)

Aug Henry VIII renewed his claim on the Scottish throne and sent his army in the...(more)

Nov 24 The battle at Solway Moss ended in a terrible defeat for the Scottish when they...(more)

Dec 8 Mary was born at Linlithgow Palace in West Lothian, Scotland. She was the...(more)

Dec 14 The defeat of the Scottish army at Solway Moss a few weeks earlier is supposed...(more)

Jul A treaty was signed by the Scots and Henry VIII swearing peace between the two...(more)

Jul 12 Henry married Catherine Parr, his sixth and final wife at Hampton Court Palace....(more)

Sep 9 The coronation of Mary, Queen of Scots, took place at Stirling....(more)

Henry VIII built the castle at the entrance to Portsmouth harbour to protect...(more)

Jan 28 Henry died at Whitehall Palace at the age of 55. He was buried in St. George's...(more)

Feb 20 The coronation of Henry VIII's son Edward took place at Westminster Abbey....(more)

Mar 31 Francis I, the King of France, died at Rambouillet Castle. He was succeeded by...(more)

Jul After a lengthy siege failed to take the well defended castle at St. Andrews,...(more)

Sep 10 Thousands of Scots gathered near the town of Musselburgh, just to the east of...(more)

Qtr 1 To comply with the agreement to marry Mary to the French Dauphin, the young...(more)

Jul The request of the Scottish Regent, Mary of Guise, for help to fight the...(more)

Aug 13 Queen Mary arrived in France. Four girls all also called Mary and coming from...(more)

Mar The war between England and Scotland and France was ended with the signing of...(more)

Jun Edward signed a change to his earlier will or 'devise' and nominated Lady Jane...(more)

Jul At Kenninghall Manor in Norfolk Mary called for support against the Duke of...(more)

Jul 6 Edward VI died at Greenwich Palace as the age of 15....(more)

Jul 10 The Duke of Northumberland proclaimed that his daughter-in-law Lady Jane Grey...(more)

Jul 17 The Duke of Northumberland and a army of some 3,000 men travelled to Cambridge...(more)

Aug 3 Mary Tudor arrived at London to a huge welcome. Entering through Aldgate she...(more)

Sep 8 Mary and Elizabeth disagreed strongly over religion. Elizabeth refused to...(more)

Oct 1 The coronation of Mary Tudor took place at Westminster Abbey. Mary became the...(more)

Dec Issues over religion and succession to the throne became too much for Elizabeth...(more)

 Several groups around the country were unhappy with the proposal of marriage...(more)

Jan 26 Queen Mary sent a letter to Elizabeth asking her to come to London. This was,...(more)

Feb 7 Sir Thomas Wyatt and this followers reached London but he was to learn that the...(more)

Apr 11 Sir Thomas Wyatt was executed at Tower Hill for leading the rebellion against...(more)

Jul 25 The marriage of Queen Mary and Philip of Spain took place. The marriage was...(more)

Jul 16 Since the divorce from Henry VIII Anne had been given a good annual income and...(more)

Dec A group of Scottish Lords signed a covenant promising to support the...(more)

Apr An agreement was reached between the Scottish commissioners and the French king...(more)

Apr 24 Mary, Queen of Scots married Francis, the Dauphin of France. A secret marriage...(more)

Nov Elizabeth entered London towards the end of November. She made her way through...(more)

Nov 17 Queen Mary died at the age of forty two. She was buried at Westminster Abbey....(more)

King Gustav, the ruler of Sweden, proposed the marriage between Elizabeth and...(more)

Jan 14 The tradition of holding pageants on the eve of the coronation was followed and...(more)

Jan 15 The coronation of Elizabeth I took place at Westminster Abbey. She was crowned...(more)

Jun Henry II, the French king was accidentally killed during a tournament...(more)

Sep Francis was crowned King of France at Rheims cathedral. The ceremony was...(more)

Robert Dudley's wife, Amy, was found dead at home with a broken neck at the...(more)

Jun Mary Stuart's mother, Mary of Guise, died in Scotland leaving the country in a...(more)

Dec Francis suffered from poor health throughout his life and he died at the age of...(more)

Mary Queen of Scots spent her time visiting the many castles and houses of her...(more)

Spring After the death of Francis II, Mary Stuart was approached by Spain with a...(more)

Spring Eric left Sweden bound for England with a fleet of ships and gifts and a...(more)

Aug 14 Leaving France from Calais in a small flotilla of ships, Mary Stuart set sail...(more)

Sep This treaty was signed in secret by Queen Elizabeth and Louis Bourbon prince of...(more)

Oct George Gordon, the 4th Earl of Huntley rebelled against Mary and at the battle...(more)

Oct Elizabeth came down with smallpox and was seriously ill. Her council feared...(more)

Winter As part of the secret treaty of Richmond, an English garrison was allowed to...(more)

Summer The Huguenots abandoned thier treaty with Elizabeth and abandoned the English...(more)

Jul 29 Mary, Queen of Scots, married Henry Lord Darnley in the chapel at Holyrood...(more)

Feb 10 Henry, Lord Darnley, was murdered as he tried to escape from his attackers as...(more)

Nov Francis Throckmorton was found guilty of carrying messages with details of an...(more)

Jun In response to the assassination threat to Queen Elizabeth an agreement signed...(more)

Nov Queen Elizabeth amended the terms of the Bond of Association as Parliament...(more)

Jan A plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth was uncovered. The person accused and...(more)

Apr 25 Oliver Cromwell was born on the 24/25 of April 1599. His father was Robert...(more)

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