On this day in Tudor history, Margaret Tudor set off for Scotland to marry James IV; Kett's Rebellion began in East Anglia; and Henry VIII's eldest daughter, Mary, declared herself queen at Kenninghall...
- 1503 – Margaret Tudor said farewell to her father, Henry VII, and set off to Edinburgh to marry James IV. Anne Boleyn's father, Thomas Boleyn, was one of the men who accompanied her. See video below.
- 1536 – Death of William Wyggeston, merchant and benefactor, at Leicester. He was buried in the collegiate church of St Mary in the Newarke, Leicester, which was destroyed around 1548.
- 1540 – Abolition, by Henry VIII, of all heretical books and those containing errors.
- 1549 – The beginning of Kett's Rebellion in East Anglia. Click here to read more or see the video below.
- 1553 - Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VIII and sister of the late King Edward VI declared herself queen at Kenninghall in Norfolk. See video below.
