Bloody Mary History Timeline |
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| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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). |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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: | 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) |
| 19th July 1553 | 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 | 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 |
| 18 March 1554 | Princess Elizabeth was imprisoned in the Tower for eight weeks |
| 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 | 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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