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Bloody Mary History Timeline |
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Timeline of
Bloody Mary Key events |
| 1509 |
June 24 -
Accession of King
Henry VIII
June 11 -
King Henry VIII marries Catherine of Aragon |
| 1516 |
Mary the
daughter of King Henry VIII and Queen Catherine of Aragon was born in
Greenwich. Mary later became Queen Mary I aka "Bloody Mary" (1516 -
1558) |
| 1517 |
The Protestant Reformation begins when
Martin Luther nails his "95 Theses" against the Catholic practice of
selling indulgences, on the church door at Wittenberg |
| 1526 |
March 4 1526 - Mary Boleyn gave
birth to a son, called Henry - he was widely assumed to be the
son of King Henry VIII although not acknowledged as such. King Henry VIII becomes totally
obsessed Anne Boleyn with whom
he falls madly in love |
| 1532 |
Anne Boleyn becomes
pregnant |
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1533 |
Thomas Cranmer, the Archbishop of Canterbury grants the
annulment of the marriage between Catharine of Aragon and
King Henry VIII - Mary Tudor was devastated by these
terrible events in her life.
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1533 |
January 25th 1533
Henry marries Anne Boleyn and is excommunicated by Pope Clement
VII |
| 7 September 1533 |
Elizabeth ,
the daughter of King Henry VIII and his second wife Anne Boleyn,
is born on . She later becomes Queen Elizabeth I.
The position of Mary Tudor is
usurped by the new baby Princess |
| 1533 |
Queen Catherine
of Aragon, mother of Mary Tudor, is given the title of the Princess Dowager of
Wales (which she refused to acknowledge to the end of her
life). |
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1534 |
Henry VIII breaks with the Church in Rome and the Act of Supremacy
is passed King Henry VIII the head of the Church of England. |
|
15341534 |
Catherine of Aragon
was moved around different castles in England and separated from her
daughter Mary, due to her obstinate refusal to accept the annulment
of her marriage. Mary Tudor was not allowed to see her mother |
|
1534 |
In 1534 the Act of Supremacy was passed.
King Henry VIII broke with the Catholic church in Rome and was
declared supreme head of the Church of England
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| 23 March 1534 |
English Parliament passed the Act of
Succession. Only the children of King Henry VIII's marriage to Anne Boleyn were deemed to be his lawful heirs.
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| 1534 |
The title of Princess Mary was reduced to
the Lady Mary. And Bloody Mary Tudor was declared a bastard. |
| 1536 January 7 |
Catherine of Aragon, the mother of Bloody
Mary
dies at Kimbolton Castle |
| May 19th 1536 |
Queen
Anne Boleyn is executed on Tower Hill |
| 30th May 1536 |
King Henry and Jane Seymour are married |
| 1537 |
Jane Seymour dies after the premature
birth of a son, the future King Edward VI |
| 1537 |
Princess Elizabeth and Princess Mary, the
daughters of Henry VIII are both declared bastards |
| 6 January 1540 |
Mary
Tudor then witnesses the political and disastrous marriage between
her father and Anne of Cleves |
| 1540 |
The marriage between
Anne of Cleves and Henry VIII is quickly annulled and Mary Tudor
then witnesses the embarrassing and pathetic affair between her
aging, obese father and the young and pretty Catherine Howard |
| 1542 February 13th:
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The marriage
between Catherine Howard ends in tragedy when Catherine Howard is
also executed |
| 12th July 1543 |
King Henry
VIII marries
his last wife, Catherine Parr |
| 28 January 1547 |
The
father of Mary Tudor, King Henry VIII dies and
the young, half brother of Mary Tudor is proclaimed King Edward VI |
| 6 July 1553 |
The young
King dies leaving the throne
to 'the Lady Jane Grey and her heirs male' instead of the rightful
heir - Mary Tudor |
|
Monday 10th July |
Lady Jane Grey Proclaimed Queen of England (Queen for just
Nine Days)
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19th July 1553
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Lady
Jane Grey was deposed as Queen and
Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VIII and
Catherine of Aragon, is finally proclaimed Queen of England |
| 12th February 1554
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Lady Jane Grey and
her husband Guildford Dudley were executed at the Tower of London
under the orders of Bloody Mary |
|
1554 |
Protestant
rebellion, led by Sir Thomas Wyatt the Younger
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18 March 1554 |
Princess Elizabeth was imprisoned in the Tower for
eight weeks |
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19 May 1554 |
Princess Elizabeth transfers from the Tower of London to
Woodstock |
| 1554 July 25 |
Philip of Spain ( who would become King
Phillip II of Spain) marries Queen Mary I ( Mary Tudor) of England. Mary was
eleven years older than Philip |
| 1554 |
Shortly after their
marriage Queen Mary I, Mary Tudor, announced she was pregnant but it was a
phantom
pregnancy |
| 1554 |
Queen Mary Tudor returns
England to Roman Catholicism |
| 1554 |
Protestants are
persecuted and 300 are burnt at the stake (in later times this leads
to Queen Mary I, Mary Tudor, being called Bloody Mary) |
| 1555 |
Mary Tudor was besotted with
Philip. At his request she reconciled, at the insistence of Philip, with her sister Princess
Elizabeth and reluctantly accepted Elizabeth as heir to the throne |
| 16 October 1555 |
The
Protestant churchmen Latimer and Ridley are burned at the stake |
| 1555 |
Mary Tudor is
devastated when her husband, Philip II returns to Spain |
| 1556 January |
Phillip the husband of Queen Mary Tudor is
crowned King Phillip II of Spain |
| 21 March 1556 |
Thomas
Cranmer, former Archbishop of Canterbury is burned at the stake |
| 1556 |
England under Mary
Tudor loses Calais, the last English possession in France |
| 10 Aug 1557 |
Spanish and English troops in alliance defeated the
French at the Battle of St. Quentin |
| 17 November 1558
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Queen Mary I dies on November 17, 1558 at
St. James's Palace |
| 14 December 1558 |
Bloody Mary Tudor was interred in
Westminster Abbey |
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