The House of Tudor

1429?

Secret marriage of Owen Tudor and Queen Katherine of Valois (widow of Henry V of England)

1430 – 1436

Births of Edmund and Jasper Tudor and two other children

1437

3 January

July

Death of Katherine of Valois

Arrest of Owen Tudor

1439,
November

Owen Tudor released and granted a general pardon

1443

Birth of Margaret Beaufort

1452,
23 November

Edmund Tudor created Earl of Richmond

1455

22 May

1 November

Battle of St. Albans (start of the ‘Wars of the Roses’)

Marriage of Edmund Tudor and Margaret Beaufort

1456,
1 November

Death of Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond

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

21 May

September

Battle of Tewkesbury

Death of Henry VI

Henry and Jasper Tudor escape to Brittany

1483

9 April

26 June

July

September

25 December

Death of Edward IV

Richard, Duke of Gloucester, proclaimed King (Richard III)

Disappearance of the two Princes in the Tower of London

Unsuccessful conspiracy against Richard III

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 on the battlefield; Henry Tudor proclaimed King (Henry VII)

1486

16 January

20 September

Marriage of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York

Birth of Prince Arthur

1487,
16 June

Battle of Stoke (ending the ‘Wars of the Roses’); Capture of Lambert Simnel (pretender to the throne)

1495-1496

Perkin Warbeck conspiracy (pretender to the throne)

1497,
October

Defeat and capture of Perkin Warbeck

1501,
14 November

Marriage of Prince Arthur and Catherine of Aragon

1502,
2 April

Death of Prince Arthur

1503

11 February

8 August

Death of Elizabeth of York

Marriage of Margaret Tudor and James IV of Scotland

1509

21 April

3 June

Death of Henry VII

Marriage of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon

1513,
9 September

Battle of Flodden; Death of James IV in battle

1514

August

9 October

Marriage of Margaret Tudor and Archibald Douglas, Earl of Angus

Marriage of Mary Tudor and Louis XII of France
      

1515

1 January

February

Death of Louis XII

Marriage of Mary Tudor and Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk

1516,
18 February

Birth of Princess Mary, later Queen Mary I

1519,
15 June

Birth of Henry Fitzroy, Henry VIII’s bastard son

1527,
May

Henry VIII initiates divorce from Catherine of Aragon

1529

June

July

Hearing of the King’s divorce case opens at Blackfriars before Cardinals Campeggio and Thomas Wolsey

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

10 May

24 June

7 September

Marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn

Archbishop Thomas Cranmer pronounces Henry’s 1
^st
marriage ‘null and void’ and his 2
^nd
‘good and lawful’

Death of Mary Tudor, Duchess of Suffolk

Birth of Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth I

1534,
March

Pope rules on the divorce in Catherine’s favour

1535

15 January

6 July

Henry VIII assumes title of Supreme Head of the Church

Execution of Sir Thomas More

1536

7 January

19 May

30 May

22 June

22 July

Death of Catherine of Aragon

Execution of Anne Boleyn

Marriage of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour

Princess Mary concedes her parents’ marriage as unlawful

Death of Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset

1537

12 October

24 October

Birth of Prince Edward, later King Edward VI

Death of Jane Seymour

1538,
December

Henry VIII excommunicated

1540

6 January

9 July

28 July

Marriage of Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves

Henry VIII’s marriage to Anne of Cleves annulled

Marriage of Henry VIII and Catherine Howard

1542

13 February

23 November

8 December

14 December

Execution of Catherine Howard

Battle of Solway Moss

Birth of Mary, Queen of Scots

Death of James V of Scotland

1543,
12 July

Marriage of Henry VIII and Catherine Parr

1547

28 January

May

Death of Henry VIII

Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, becomes Lord Protector

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 Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset

1553

21 May

6 July

7 – 9 July

10 – 19 July

19 July

22 August

Marriage of Lady Jane Grey and Guildford Dudley

Death of Edward VI

Attempted coup by John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland

Brief reign of Jane Grey

Mary Tudor proclaimed Queen in London

Execution of John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland

1554

January

12 February

18 March
-19 May

25 July

November

Wyatt’s Rebellion

Execution of Jane Grey

Princess Elizabeth held in the Tower of London

Marriage of Queen Mary I and Philip of Spain

England reconciled to Rome

1555

April

Queen Mary believes herself pregnant

Elizabeth released from house arrest at Woodstock

1556,
21 March

Thomas Cranmer burnt as a heretic

1558

7 January

17 November

Loss of Calais to France

Death of Queen Mary I

1559,
January/May

Elizabethan Settlement of Religion

1560

8 September

December

Mysterious death of Amy Dudley

Secret marriage of Lady Katherine Grey and Edward Seymour, 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 Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley

1566,
19 June

Birth of Prince James, later King James I

1567

10 February

15 May

Murder of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley

Scandalous marriage of Mary, Queen of Scots and Lord Bothwell, suspect in Lord Darnley’s murder

1568

27 January

16 May

Death of Lady Katherine Grey

Flight of Mary, Queen of Scots into England

1587,
8 February

Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots

1588

July/August

4 September

Defeat of the Spanish Armada

Death of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester

1601

February

25 February

Essex Rebellion

Execution of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex

1603,
24 March

Death of Queen Elizabeth I; James Stuart (James VI of Scotland) becomes King James I of England and Ireland