Chronology

1429? Marriage of Owen Tudor and Queen Katherine Valois
   
1430–1436 Births of Edmund and Jasper Tudor and two other children
   
1437
  3 January Death of Katherine Valois
     July Arrest of Owen Tudor
   
1439
     November Owen Tudor released and granted a general pardon
   
1452
23 November Edmund Tudor created Earl of Richmond
   
1455 Marriage of Edmund Tudor and Margaret Beaufort
   
1456
  1 November Death of Edmund Tudor
   
1457
28 January Birth of Henry Tudor, later King Henry VII
   
1461
  3 February Battle of Mortimer’s Cross
Execution of Owen Tudor
   
1471
  4 May Battle of Tewkesbury
21 May Death of Henry VI
     September Henry and Jasper Tudor escape to Brittany
   
1483
  9 April Death of Edward IV
26 June Richard, Duke of Gloucester proclaimed King
     July Disappearance of the little Princes in the Tower
     September Unsuccessful conspiracy against Richard III
   
1483
25 December Henry Tudor swears an oath to marry Elizabeth of York ‘so soon as he should be king’
   
1485
22 August Battle of Bosworth
Death of Richard III
Henry Tudor proclaimed King
   
1486
16 January Marriage of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York
20 September Birth of Prince Arthur
   
1487
16 June Battle of Stoke
Capture of Lambert Simnel
   
1495/96 Perkin Warbeck conspiracy
   
1497
     October Defeat and capture of Perkin Warbeck
   
1501
14 November Marriage of Prince Arthur and Catherine of Aragon
   
1502
  2 April Death of Arthur
   
1503
11 February Death of Elizabeth of York
  8 August Marriage of Margaret Tudor and James IV of Scotland
   
1509
21 April Death of Henry VII
  3 June Marriage of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon
   
1513
  9 September Battle of Flodden
Death of James IV
   
1514
     August Marriage of Margaret Tudor and the Earl of Angus
  9 October Marriage of Mary Tudor and Louis XII of France
   
1515
  1 January Death of Louis XII
     February Marriage of Mary Tudor and Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk
   
1516
18 February Birth of Princess Mary, later Queen Mary I
   
1519
     June Birth of Henry Fitzroy, Henry VIII’s bastard son
   
1527
     May Henry VIII takes first steps towards his divorce from Catherine of Aragon
   
1529
     June Hearing of the King’s divorce case opens at Blackfriars before Cardinals Campeggio and Thomas Wolsey
     July Pope transfers hearing of the case to Rome
   
1530
29 November Death of Cardinal Wolsey
   
1531
     July Henry separates from Catherine of Aragon
   
1533
25 January Marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn
10 May Archbishop Thomas Cranmer pronounces Henry’s first marriage null and void and his second good and lawful
24 June Death of Mary Tudor, Duchess of Suffolk
  7 September Birth of Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth I
   
1534
     March Pope gives judgement on the divorce in Catherine’s favour
   
1535
15 January Henry VIII assumes title of Supreme Head of the Church
  6 July Execution of Sir Thomas More
   
1536
  7 January Death of Catherine of Aragon
19 May Execution of Anne Boleyn
30 May Marriage of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour
     June Princess Mary acknowledges her parents’ marriage to have been unlawful and repudiates the Pope
22 July Death of Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond
   
1537
12 October Birth of Prince Edward, later King Edward VI
Death of Jane Seymour
   
1538
     December Henry VIII excommunicated
   
1540
  6 January Marriage of Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves
     July Henry divorces Anne of Cleves
28 July Marriage of Henry VIII and Catherine Howard
   
1542
13 February Execution of Catherine Howard
23 November Battle of Solway Moss
  8 December Birth of Mary Queen of Scots
14 December Death of James V of Scotland
   
1543
12 July Marriage of Henry VIII and Catherine Parr
   
1547
28 January Death of Henry VIII
Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, becomes Lord Protector
     May Marriage of Queen Catherine Parr and Thomas Seymour
   
1548
  7 September Death of Catherine Parr
   
1549
20 March Execution of Thomas Seymour
   
1550
  4 June Marriage of Robert Dudley and Amy Robsart
   
1552
22 January Execution of Duke of Somerset
   
1553
21 May Marriage of Lady Jane Grey and Guildford Dudley
  6 July Death of Edward VI followed by Duke of Northumberland’s attempted coup and brief reign of ‘Queen Jane’
19 July Mary Tudor proclaimed Queen in London
22 August Execution of Duke of Northumberland
   
1554
     January Wyatt Rebellion
12 February Execution of Jane Grey
18 March Princess Elizabeth taken to the Tower
25 July Marriage of Queen Mary and Philip of Spain
     November England reconciled to Rome
   
1555
Mary believes herself pregnant
     April Elizabeth released from house arrest at Woodstock
   
1556
21 March Thomas Cranmer burnt as a heretic
   
1558
  7 January Loss of Calais
17 November Death of Queen Mary
   
1559
     January/ Elizabethan Settlement of Religion
     May
   
1560
  8 September Death of Amy Dudley
     December Marriage of Lady Katherine Grey and Earl of Hertford
   
1561
     August Mary Queen of Scots returns to Scotland from France
   
1564
29 September Robert Dudley created Earl of Leicester
   
1565
29 July Marriage of Mary Queen of Scots and Lord Darnley
   
1566
19 June Birth of Prince James, later King James I
   
1567
10 February Murder of Darnley
   
1568
27 January Death of Lady Katherine Grey
16 May Flight of Mary Queen of Scots into England
   
1587
  8 February Execution of Mary Queen of Scots
   
1588
     July/August Defeat of the Spanish Armada
  4 September Death of Earl of Leicester
   
1601
     February Essex Rebellion
25 February Execution of Earl of Essex
   
1603
24 March Death of Queen Elizabeth