On this day in Tudor history, 9th October, Henry VIII's sister, Mary Tudor, married Louis XII of France at Abbeville; and Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, was baptised in Alcalá de Henares...
- 1514 - The eighteen-year-old Mary Tudor, sister of Henry VIII, married the fifty-two-year-old King Louis XII of France at Abbeville in France. See video below.
- 1529 – A writ of praemunire was filed against Cardinal Thomas Wolsey in the court of King’s Bench.
- 1536 – Pilgrimage of Grace: The rebels of Horncastle, Lincoln, dispatched their petition of grievances to the King and also north into Yorkshire.
- 1547 – Baptism of Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, in Alcalá de Henares, Spain. His actual birthdate is unknown. See video below.
- 1573 – Death of Sir Thomas Wroth, courtier, politician and landowner. Wroth served Edward VI as a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber and was with him when he died.
- 1604 – Death of Sir William Peryam, Judge, at Little Fulford, near Credington in Devon. He was laid to rest at Holy Cross Church. Peryam was on the commissions at the trials of Mary, Queen of Scots, the Earl of Arundel, the Earl of Essex and Sir John Perrot, and served as Chief Baron of the Exchequer from 1593 until his death.
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