King Henry VIII

Birth of Henry Viii

Jun 28, 1491

Born 28 June 1491 at Greenwich Palace, Henry Tudor was the third child and second son of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York.

Death of Henry Vii

Apr 21, 1509

Henry VII died on 21 April 1509, and the young Henry succeeded him as king.

Henry VIII marries Catherine of Aarogon

May 1, 1509

Soon after his father's burial on 10 May, Henry suddenly declared that he would indeed marry Catherine. The daughter of Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon, Catherine was three years old when she was betrothed to Prince Arthur, heir apparent to the English throne. They married in 1501, and Arthur died five months later.

Birth of Mary I of England

Feb 8, 1516

The only child of Henry and Catherine to make it to adult age. Mary I was the Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 until her death. Her executions of Protestants led to the posthumous sobriquet "Bloody Mary". Died November 17 1558.

Affair with Mary Boleyn

Nov 1, 1521

Mary was one of the mistresses of Henry VIII, from a period of roughly 1521 to 1526. It has been rumoured that she bore two of the king's children, though Henry did not acknowledge either of them

Marriage to Anne Boleyn

Jan 25, 1533

Queen of England from 1533 to 1536 as the second wife of King Henry VIII, and Marquess of Pembroke in her own right.[5] Henry's marriage to Anne, and her subsequent execution, made her a key figure in the political and religious upheaval that was the start of the English Reformation. Anne was the daughter of Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, and his wife, Lady Elizabeth Howard. Was the sister of Henrys former mistress, Mary. Anne and Henry's daughter would become Queen Elizabeth I.

Birth of Elizabeth

Sep 7, 1533

The queen gave birth to a daughter slightly prematurely on 7 September 1533. The child was christened Elizabeth, in honour of Henry's mother, Elizabeth of York. Anne's marriage to Henry VIII was annulled, and Elizabeth was declared illegitimate.

Execution of Anne Boleyn

May 19, 1536

Between 30 April and 2 May, five men, including Anne's brother, were arrested on charges of treasonable adultery and accused of having sexual relationships with the queen. Anne was also arrested, accused of treasonous adultery and incest. Although the evidence against them was unconvincing, the accused were found guilty and condemned to death. George Boleyn and the other accused men were executed on 17 May 1536. At 8 am on 19 May 1536, Anne was executed on Tower Green.

Marriage to Jane Seymour

May 30, 1536

The day after Anne's execution in 1536 Henry became engaged to Seymour, who had been one of the Queen's ladies-in-waiting. They were married ten days later.n 12 October 1537, Jane gave birth to a son, Prince Edward, the future Edward VI.[104] The birth was difficult, and the queen died on 24 October 1537 from an infection and was buried in Windsor.

Anne of Cleves

Jan 6, 1540

Anne of Cleves was Queen of England from 6 January 1540 to 9 July 1540 as the fourth wife of King Henry VIII.The marriage was declared never consummated, and, as a result, she was not crowned queen consort. Following the annulment of their marriage, Anne was given a generous settlement by the King, and thereafter referred to as the King's Beloved Sister.

Catherine Howard

Jun 28, 1540

On 28 July 1540, Henry married the young Catherine Howard, a first cousin and lady-in-waiting of Anne Boleyn. Soon after the marriage, however, Queen Catherine had an affair with the courtier Thomas Culpeper. Catherine was beheaded on 13 February 1542.

Catherine Parr

Jul 15, 1543

Henry married his last wife, the wealthy widow Catherine Parr, in July 1543. She married him on 12 July 1543, and outlived him by one year. She was also the most-married English queen, with four husbands, and the first woman to be queen of both England and Ireland.

Henrys Death

Jan 28, 1547

Henry's obesity hastened his death at the age of 55, which occurred on 28 January 1547 in the Palace of Whitehall, on what would have been his father's 90th birthday.

Edward Vi

Jan 28, 1547

Edward VI was King of England and Ireland from 28 January 1547 until his death. He was crowned on 20 February at the age of nine.The son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, Edward was the third monarch of the Tudor dynasty and England's first monarch raised as a Protestant. Died July 6 1553.

Mary I of England

Jul 20, 1553

As the fourth crowned monarch of the Tudor dynasty, Mary is remembered for her restoration of Roman Catholicism after the short-lived Protestant reign of her half-brother. During her five-year reign, she had over 280 religious dissenters burned at the stake in the Marian persecutions. Her re-establishment of Roman Catholicism was reversed after her death in 1558 by her younger half-sister and successor Elizabeth I, daughter of Henry and Anne Boleyn.

Queen Elizabeth

Nov 17, 1558

Elizabeth I was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana or Good Queen Bess, the childless Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty.