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Short Biography of Bloody Mary
Date of Birth: Born on June 1, 1516
Place of Birth : Greenwich, London
Parents: Father: King Henry VIII of England
Mother:
Catherine of Aragon
Background Facts, Information & Ancestry :
She was the granddaughter of King Ferdinand and
Queen Isabella of Spain and King Henry VII
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1516 |
Mary was born in Greenwich in
London
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1517 |
The start of the Protestant
Reformation in Germany when Martin Luther nails his
"95 Theses" against the Catholic practice of selling
indulgences, on the church door at Wittenberg
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1526 |
Her father, King Henry VIII,
becomes totally obsessed Anne Boleyn and he no
longer has any interest in her mother
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1532 |
Anne Boleyn becomes pregnant
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1533 |
Thomas Cranmer grants the
annulment of the marriage between her mother and
father January 25th:
Her father marries Anne Boleyn and is excommunicated
by Pope Clement VII
7 September: Her half
sister Elizabeth is born - her position is usurped
by the new baby Princess
Queen Catherine of Aragon,
mother of Mary Tudor, is given the title of the
Princess Dowager of Wales which she refuses to ever
acknowledge
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1534 |
King 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 Her mother is
moved to different castles in England and Mary is
forbidden from seeing her mother due to
Catherine of Aragon's stubborn obstinate refusal to
accept the annulment of her marriage.
23 March: Act of
Succession. Only the children of King Henry VIII's
marriage to Anne Boleyn were deemed to be his lawful
heirs
The title of Princess Mary
was reduced to the Lady Mary and she was declared a
bastard.
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1536 |
January 7: Catherine of Aragon
dies at Kimbolton Castle
May 19th: Queen Anne Boleyn is
executed on Tower Hill after being accused of
treason. incest and witchcraft
30th May: King Henry
marries Jane Seymour
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1537 |
Jane Seymour dies after the
birth of a son, the future King Edward VI and Mary's
half-brother
Both Princess Elizabeth and Princess Mary are
declared bastards
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1540 |
6 January: Marriage between
King Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves which is is
quickly annulled
July 28: 49 year old King Henry marries 19 year old
Catherine Howard ( who was a cousin of Anne Boleyn)
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1542 |
February 13: The marriage
between Catherine Howard ends in tragedy when
Catherine Howard is executed for adultery
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1543 |
12th July: King Henry
VIII marries his sixth wife, Catherine Parr |
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1547 |
28 January: The father
of Mary Tudor, King Henry VIII dies and the young,
half brother of Mary Tudor is proclaimed King Edward
VI
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1553 |
6 July: Her step brother dies
leaving the throne to Protestant 'Lady Jane Grey and
her heirs male' instead of Mary
July 10: Lady Jane
Grey proclaimed Queen of England
July 19 Lady Jane Grey was
deposed as Queen and Mary finally takes the crown as
Queen of England
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1554 |
February 12: Lady Jane Grey is
executed at the Tower of London under the orders of
Bloody Mary
Protestant rebellion, led by Sir Thomas Wyatt the
Younger
March 18: Mary sends Princess Elizabeth to the Tower
under suspicion of being involved in the rebellion
May 19: Princess Elizabeth
released from the Tower of London
July 25 : Mary marries
Philip of Spain ( who becomes King Phillip II of
Spain) she was eleven years older than Philip
She announces that she is
pregnant but it is a phantom pregnancy
England forced to return to
Roman Catholicism
Protestants are persecuted
and 300 are burnt at the stake which leads to her
nickname of Bloody Mary
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1555 |
Accepts Princess Elizabeth as
heir to the throne
October 16: The Protestant churchmen Latimer and
Ridley are burned at the stake
Philip II leaves Mary and
returns to Spain
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1556 |
March 21: Thomas Cranmer,
former Archbishop of Canterbury is burned at the
stake |
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1557 |
August 10: Battle of St.
Quentin - Spanish and English troops in alliance
defeat the French |
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1558 |
November 17: Queen Mary I dies
at St. James's Palace in London
December 14: Her body is
interred in Westminster Abbey
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