| 1-Jan |
1540 |
Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves meet for the first time |
| 5-Jan |
1558 |
Calais fell to the French |
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1589 |
Catherine d' Medici died |
| 6-Jan |
1540 |
Cranmer married Henry VIII to Anne of Cleves |
| 7-Jan |
1536 |
Catherine of Aragon died |
| 11-Jan |
1569 |
First lottery held in England, at the steps of St. Paul's |
| 12-Jan |
1583 |
Duke of Alva died in Lisbon |
| 15-Jan |
1559 |
Elizabeth I crowned Queen |
| 16-Jan |
1549 |
Arrest of Thomas Seymour ordered |
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1599 |
Edmund Spenser died |
| 19-Jan |
1472 |
Nicholas Copernicus born |
| 22-Jan |
1552 |
Duke of Somerset executed |
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1561 |
Francis Bacon born |
| 23-Jan |
1571 |
The Royal Exchange opened in London |
| 24-Jan |
1586 |
Leicester accepted title of governor of the provinces |
| 25-Jan |
1533 |
Anne Boleyn married Henry VIII |
| 26-Jan |
1569 |
Mary Stuart moved from Bolton to Tutbury |
| 28-Jan |
1457 |
Henry VII born |
|
1547 |
Henry VIII died; Edward VI ascended to the throne |
|
1596 |
Sir Francis Drake died |
| 29-Jan |
1536 |
Anne Boleyn gave birth to a still born son |
| 31-Jan |
1574 |
Ben Jonson born |
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| 1-Feb |
1552 |
Edward Coke, Lord Chief justice, born |
| 3-Feb |
1554 |
Sir Thomas Wyatt and followers reached Southwark |
| 6-Feb |
1564 |
Christopher Marlowe born |
| 7-Feb |
1478 |
Sir Thomas More born |
| 8-Feb |
1554 |
Sir Thomas Wyatt captured |
|
1587 |
Mary Queen of Scots executed |
| 10-Feb |
1567 |
Darnley murdered |
| 12-Feb |
1554 |
Lady Jane Grey executed |
| 13-Feb |
1542 |
Catherine Howard executed |
| 15-Feb |
1564 |
Galileo born |
| 18-Feb |
1516 |
Mary I born |
| 19-Feb |
1592 |
The Rose Theater opened |
| 20-Feb |
1547 |
Edward VI crowned at Westminster |
| 21-Feb |
1599 |
Shareholders signed lease to build the Globe Theater |
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| 24-Feb |
1500 |
Charles V of Spain born |
| 25-Feb |
1601 |
Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, executed |
| 26-Feb |
1547 |
Thomas Seymour wrote marriage proposal to Elizabeth |
| 27-Feb |
1547 |
Elizabeth wrote her refusal of marriage to Thomas Seymour |
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| 1-Mar |
1553 |
Edward VI opened Parliament |
| 2-Mar |
1545 |
Sir Thomas Bodley born |
| 3-Mar |
1547 |
Thomas Seymour and Katherine Parr betrothed |
| 4-Mar |
1583 |
Bernard Gilpin, rector, died |
| 9-Mar |
1566 |
David Riccio's murder |
| 12-Mar |
1559 |
Elizabeth made peace with France |
| 14-Mar |
1555 |
John, Earl of Bedford died |
| 18-Mar |
1554 |
Elizabeth put into the Tower |
| 20-Mar |
1549 |
Sir Thomas Seymour executed |
| 21-Mar |
1556 |
Thomas Cranmer burnt at the stake |
| 24-Mar |
1603 |
Elizabeth I died; James VI of Scotland becomes James I of England |
| 25-Mar |
1563 |
Peace of Amboise |
| 30-Mar |
1568 |
Sir Henry Wotton born |
| 31-Mar |
1553 |
Edward VI dissolved Parliament at Whitehall |
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| 1-Apr |
1578 |
William Harvey born |
| 2-Apr |
1502 |
Arthur, Prince of Wales, died |
|
1587 |
Sir Francis Drake set sail to attack Spanish fleet |
| 6-Apr |
1590 |
Sir Francis Walshingham died |
| 11-Apr |
1554 |
Sir Thomas Wyatt executed |
| 13-Apr |
1533 |
Anne Boleyn declared Queen publically |
| 14-Apr |
1578 |
Bothwell died in Denmark |
| 16-Apr |
1570 |
Guy Fawlkes born |
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1594 |
Earl of Derby died |
| 17-Apr |
1554 |
Stephen Gosson born |
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Sir Thomas Wyatts head stolen from gallows on Hay Hill |
| 18-Apr |
1587 |
John Foxe died |
| 19-Apr |
1587 |
Drake attacked Cadiz |
| 20-Apr |
1534 |
Eliza Barton "Maid of Kent, executed |
| 22-Apr |
1509 |
Henry VII died; Henry VIII ascended to the throne |
| 23-Apr |
1564 |
Traditional birthday of William Shakespeare |
| 24-Apr |
1558 |
Mary, Queen of Scots married Francis, Dauphin of France |
| 25-Apr |
1599 |
Oliver Cromwell born |
| 28-Apr |
1603 |
Elizabeth I buried at Westminster |
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| 1-May |
1590 |
James VI brought his bride Anne to Scotland |
| 2-May |
1551 |
William Camden died |
| 6-May |
1541 |
Henry VIII proclaimed a new Bible must be in every church |
| 7-May |
1567 |
Lord and Lady Bothwell granted a divorce |
| 8-May |
1559 |
Act of Uniformity signed by Queen Elizabeth |
| 15-May |
1567 |
Mary, Queen of Scots married Bothwell |
| 16-May |
1532 |
Thomas More resigned as Chancellor of England |
| 17-May |
1536 |
George Boleyn, Anne's brother, executed |
| 18-May |
1544 |
Henry VIII ordered the burning of books with news of the success of the Scottish army |
| 19-May |
1536 |
Anne Boleyn executed |
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1554 |
Elizabeth released from the Tower to Woodstock |
| 20-May |
1536 |
Henry VIII betrothed to Jane Seymour |
| 21-May |
1553 |
Lady Jane Grey married Guilford Dudley |
| 23-May |
1533 |
Cranmer's court divorced Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon |
| 27-May |
1541 |
Countess of Salisbury beheaded within the Tower |
| 28-May |
1533 |
Cranmer proclaimed Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn married |
| 30-May |
1536 |
Henry VIII married Jane Seymour |
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| 1-Jun |
1533 |
Anne Boleyn crowned |
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1593 |
Christopher Marlowe died |
| 2-Jun |
1572 |
Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk executed |
| 4-Jun |
1550 |
Lord Robert Dudley married Amy Robsart |
| 5-Jun |
1600 |
Robert, Earl of Essex, placed under house arrest |
| 6-Jun |
1520 |
Field of the Cloth of Gold |
| 8-Jun |
1533 |
Parliament extinguished Papal authority in England |
| 9-Jun |
1584 |
Francis, duke d'Alencon, died |
| 11-Jun |
1509 |
Catherine of Aragon married Henry VIII |
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1560 |
Mary of Guise died |
| 15-Jun |
1567 |
Mary, Queen of Scots and Bothwell parted |
| 16-Jun |
1514 |
Sir John Cheke born 1514 |
| 17-Jun |
1567 |
Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned in Lochleven |
| 18-Jun |
1546 |
Anne Askew arraigned for heresy |
| 19-Jun |
1566 |
James VI/I born |
| 22-Jun |
1535 |
Bishop John Fisher executed |
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1559 |
Queen Elizabeth's Prayer Book issued |
| 24-Jun |
1509 |
Catherine of Aragon crowned Queen |
| 28-Jun |
1491 |
Henry VIII born |
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| 1-Jul |
1536 |
Elizabeth and Mary declared illegitimate by Parliament |
| 2-Jul |
1489 |
Thomas Cranmer born |
| 5-Jul |
1537 |
Queen Magdalen of Scotland, first wife of James V, died |
| 6-Jul |
1535 |
Sir Thomas More executed |
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1553 |
Edward VI died |
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1560 |
Treaty of Edinburgh |
| 7-Jul |
1592 |
Thomas, Earl of Arundel, born |
| 8-Jul |
1540 |
Henry VIII abolished all books containing errors and heresy |
| 9-Jul |
1540 |
Marriage of Anne of Cleves and Henry VIII dissolved |
| 10-Jul |
1553 |
Lady Jane Grey proclaimed Queen |
|
1584 |
William of Orange assassinated |
| 11-Jul |
1533 |
Henry VIII excommunicated |
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1564 |
Plague began in Stratford |
| 12-Jul |
1543 |
Catherine Parr married Henry VIII |
| 13-Jul |
1553 |
Northumberland led force against Princess mary, but then retreated |
| 14-Jul |
1575 |
Queen Elizabeth entertained at Kenilworth |
| 16-Jul |
1557 |
Anne of Cleves died |
| 18-Jul |
1546 |
Anne Askew burnt at the stake |
| 19-Jul |
1573 |
Dr. John Caius died |
| 20-Jul |
1553 |
Mary Tudor proclaimed Queen |
| 22-Jul |
1536 |
Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond, died |
| 23-Jul |
1596 |
Henry Carey, first Lord Hunsdon, died |
| 24-Jul |
1567 |
James VI declared King of Scotland |
| 25-Jul |
1554 |
Queen Mary married Philip of Spain |
| 26-Jul |
1588 |
4,000 men assembled at West Tilbury to fight the Spanish |
| 27-Jul |
1563 |
Havre surrendered to the French |
| 28-Jul |
1540 |
Henry VIII married Catherine Howard |
|
1586 |
Sir Francis Drake returned from Spain |
| 29-Jul |
1565 |
Mary, Queen of Scots, married Darnley |
| 30-Jul |
1553 |
Elizabeth took up residence at Somerset House |
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| 2-Aug |
1589 |
King Henry III of France died |
| 3-Aug |
1553 |
Queen Mary entered London with Elizabeth |
| 4-Aug |
1598 |
Lord Burghley died |
| 5-Aug |
1600 |
John, Earl of Gowrie, slain at Perth |
| 8-Aug |
1553 |
King Edward buried at Westminster |
|
1588 |
Elizabeth addressed the troops at Tilbury |
| 12-Aug |
1577 |
Sir Thomas Smith died |
| 15-Aug |
1551 |
Dudley made Gentleman of the King's Privy Chamber |
| 18-Aug |
1587 |
Virginia Dare born on Roanoke Island, North Carolina |
| 19-Aug |
1561 |
Mary, Queen of Scots landed in Scotland |
| 20-Aug |
1588 |
Sermon of Thanksgiving for victory over Spain preached at St. Paul's |
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1589 |
James VI/I married to Anne of Denmark by proxy |
| 21-Aug |
1553 |
John Dudley, Earl of Northumberland, beheaded |
| 22-Aug |
1485 |
Battle of Bosworth Field; Richard III dies; Henry VII becomes king |
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1552 |
Edward VI made royal progress to Christchurch, Hampshire |
| 24-Aug |
1553 |
Catholic Mass sung at St.Paul's |
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1572 |
St. Bartholomew's massacre |
| 25-Aug |
1558 |
Mary Stuart married to Francis II of France |
| 27-Aug |
1590 |
Pope Sixtus V died |
| 31-Aug |
1542 |
Henry VIII proclaims limitations on prices for bows and arrows for footmen and horsemen |
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| 1-Sep |
1532 |
Anne Boleyn made Marquess of Pembroke |
| 3-Sep |
1553 |
Edward Courtenay made Earl of Devonshire |
|
1592 |
Robert Green died |
| 4-Sep |
1539 |
Henry VIII betrothed to Anne of Cleves |
|
1588 |
Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, died |
| 5-Sep |
1548 |
Catherine Parr died |
|
1569 |
Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London, died in prison |
| 7-Sep |
1533 |
Anne Boleyn gave birth to Elizabeth |
| 8-Sep |
1560 |
Amy Robsart found dead |
| 9-Sep |
1513 |
Battle of Flodden |
| 10-Sep |
1533 |
Elizabeth baptized at Greenwich |
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1547 |
The Battle of Pinkie |
| 13-Sep |
1520 |
William Cecil, Lord Burghley, born |
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1557 |
Sir John Checke died |
|
1586 |
Conspirators in the Babington plot tried |
| 14-Sep |
1585 |
Sir Francis Drake sailed for Spain |
| 18-Sep |
1559 |
Francis II crowned King of France |
| 19-Sep |
1486 |
Arthur, Prince of Wales, born |
| 22-Sep |
1515 |
Anne of Cleves born |
| 23-Sep |
1571 |
Bishop Jewel died |
| 25-Sep |
1586 |
Mary Stuart brought to Fotheringay |
| 27-Sep |
1501 |
Catherine of Aragon arrives in England |
| 28-Sep |
1599 |
Earl of Essex arrived in London |
| 29-Sep |
1528 |
Cardinal Campeggio arrives in England to try the Annulment case |
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1564 |
Robert Dudley created Earl of Leicester |
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| 2-Oct |
1452 |
Richard III born |
| 7-Oct |
1565 |
Sir Thomas Chaloner died |
| 9-Oct |
1547 |
Michael Cervantes born |
| 10-Oct |
1568 |
John Hemminge died |
| 11-Oct |
1542 |
Sir Thomas Wyatt, poet, died |
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1551 |
Duke of Somerset arrested |
| 12-Oct |
1537 |
Edward VI born |
| 15-Oct |
1537 |
Edward VI christened |
|
1582 |
Gregorian calendar adopted by Catholic countries |
| 16-Oct |
1555 |
Bishops Ridley and Latimer burnt at the stake |
| 17-Oct |
1586 |
Sir Philip Sidney died |
| 18-Oct |
1541 |
Margaret Tudor died |
|
1555 |
Elizabeth allowed to go to Hatfield |
| 24-Oct |
1537 |
Jane Seymour died |
| 25-Oct |
1529 |
Thomas More became Chancellor of England |
|
1586 |
Death sentence passed on Mary Stuart |
| 28-Oct |
1551 |
Edward VI proclaimed new coinage for England |
| 29-Oct |
1586 |
Parliament finds Mary Stuart guilty of treason |
| 30-Oct |
1553 |
Mary I crowned |
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| 6-Nov |
1558 |
Thomas Kyd born |
| 7-Nov |
1594 |
Sir Martin Forbisher died |
| 10-Nov |
1566 |
Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex born |
| 12-Nov |
1555 |
Bishop Gardiner died |
|
1586 |
Parliament petitioned Elizabeth to sign Mary Stuart's death warrant |
| 14-Nov |
1501 |
Catherine of Aragon married Arthur, Prince of Wales |
| 17-Nov |
1558 |
Mary I died, Elizabeth succeeded to the throne |
| 20-Nov |
1591 |
Sir Christopher Hatton died |
| 21-Nov |
1579 |
Sir Thomas Gresham died |
| 23-Nov |
1558 |
Elizabeth commenced royal progress to London |
| 24-Nov |
1588 |
Elizabeth went to St. Paul's to give thanks for deliverance from Spanish threat |
| 25-Nov |
1533 |
Henry Fitzroy married Mary Howard |
| 28-Nov |
1582 |
Marriage bond entered for William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway |
| 29-Nov |
1489 |
Margaret Tudor born |
|
1530 |
Cardinal Wolsey died |
| 30-Nov |
1554 |
Philip Sidney born |
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| 2-Dec |
1549 |
Margaret of Navarre died |
| 5-Dec |
1560 |
Francis II died |
| 7-Dec |
1545 |
Henry Darnley born |
| 8-Dec |
1542 |
Mary, Queen of Scots, born |
| 12-Dec |
1574 |
Anne of Denmark born |
| 13-Dec |
1577 |
Sir Francis Drake left Plymouth on circumnavigation voyage |
| 14-Dec |
1542 |
James V of Scotland died |
|
1558 |
Mary I buried at Westminster |
| 15-Dec |
1485 |
Catherine of Aragon born |
| 19-Dec |
1562 |
Battle of Dreux |
| 23-Dec |
1588 |
Henri de Lorraine, Duke of Guise, assassinated at Blois |
| 27-Dec |
1539 |
Anne of Cleves landed at Deal |
| 30-Dec |
1546 |
King Henry VIII's will named Edward his heir |
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