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Short Biography of Anne Boleyn
Date of Birth: Exact date unknown but
born in the year 1502
Place of Birth : Blickling Hall, Norfolk,
England
Parents: Father - Sir Thomas Boleyn
Mother:
Lady Elizabeth Howard
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1502 |
Born at Blickling Hall,
Norfolk, England |
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1515 |
Anne Boleyn and her older
sister Mary were sent to France to finish their
education |
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1520 |
The Field of Cloth of Gold:
A great tournament where King Francis I of France
meets King Henry VIII watched by Anne Boleyn
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1522 |
ReturnS to England after 7
years in France
Becomes lady-in-waiting to Queen Catharine of Aragon
March 1: The first
documented appearance of Anne Boleyn at the English
Court when she was listed amongst the players in a
masque
Meets and falls in love
with Henry Percy a nobleman who served in Cardinal
Wolsey's retinue. The couple become betrothed but
are split up by Cardinal Wolsey on the orders of
King Henry VIII who wants Anne for himself
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1525 |
Henry VIII has a short affair
with Mary Boleyn, the sister of Anne |
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1526 |
March 4: Mary gives birth to a
son, called Henry, although the baby is not
acknowledged by the king
During this year King Henry
VIII becomes obsessed with Anne Boleyn
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1527 |
It becomes publicly known that
King Henry is seeking a divorce from Queen Catherine
of Aragon. Wolsey is tasked with obtaining a divorce
from the Pope
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1529 |
Henry VIII dismisses Cardinal
Thomas Wolsey following his failure to obtain the
divorce |
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1532 |
September 1: Anne created
Marchioness of Pembroke and accompanies Henry VIII
on a State visit to Calais
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1532 |
Becomes pregnant |
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1533 |
Thomas Cranmer grants the
annulment of the marriage between Queen Catharine of
Aragon and King Henry VIII bypassing the Pope
January 25: King Henry VIII
marries Anne and is excommunicated by Pope Clement
VII
May 29: The
coronation of the new Queen
September 7: Gives birth to
the daughter of King Henry VIII who later becomes
Queen Elizabeth I
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1534 |
Act of Supremacy: Henry VIII
is declared Supreme Head of the Church of England
March 23: Parliament passes
Act of Succession which decrees that only the
children of King Henry VIII's marriage to Anne
Boleyn are his lawful heirs
July: Gives birth to a
stillborn son
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1535 |
Becomes pregnant again but
King Henry VIII has already turned his attention to
Jane Seymour a lady in waiting
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1536 |
January 7: Catherine of
Aragon dies at Kimbolton Castle
January 29: Queen Anne
miscarries
May 2: Queen Anne is
arrested and taken to the Tower of London
May 15: Anne is tried for
treason, adultery and incest in the Great Hall of
the Tower of London
George Boleyn, Mark Smeaton,
Sir Francis Weston, William Brereton and Sir Henry
Norris are executed for treason by way of adultery
with the Queen
May 19: Queen Anne is
executed by beheading on Tower Green and buried in
an unmarked grave in the Chapel of St. Peter ad
Vincula
May 30: King Henry VIII
marries Jane Seymour
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