On this day in Tudor history, Queen Anne Boleyn was executed at the Tower of London; Henry VIII was issued a dispensation to marry wife number 3, the future Elizabeth I was released from the Tower of London into house arrest; and it's the Feast of St Dunstan...
- The Feast of St Dunstan - click here for more information.
- 1527 – Death of Henry Algernon Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland, at Wressle. He was buried in Beverley Minster.
- 1536 – Archbishop Thomas Cranmer issued a dispensation for Henry VIII to marry Jane Seymour.
- 1536 - Execution of Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII, at the Tower of London. See video below.
- 1554 – The future Elizabeth I was released from the Tower of London and allowed to go to Woodstock under house-arrest. She had been taken to the Tower on 18th March 1554 after her half-sister, Queen Mary I, ordered her arrest for her alleged involvement in Wyatt’s Rebellion. See video below.
- 1597 – Death of Richard Rogers, Bishop-Suffragan of Dover.
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