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By the young age of 4, King Henry VIII had already been appointed Constable of Dover Castle, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, Earl Marshal of England, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and Order of the Garter. He was also admitted into the Order of the Bath, made Duke of York, and made Warden of the Scottish Marches. His brother Arthur passed away in 1502 and Henry soon succeeded him in 1503 for the Dukedom of Cornwall, Prince of Wales & Earl of Chester. In 1509 his father died, leaving him the throne
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King Henry VII begins his reign as King of England after his brother dies.
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King Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon's wedding.
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Got engaged to Prince Arthur at age 3, served as Regent of England, English people liked her and were sad when she died, friends of Erasmus and Thomas More, she spoke Latin, Spanish, French and Greek.
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King Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon's daughter was born.
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King Henry broke away from the Roman Church because he wanted a male baby and his wife was too old. Then he fell in love with Anne Boleyn and she got pregnant and he needed to be married to her for it to be legitamate but the church said no so he broke away and made his own so he could get the marriage annulled
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King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn's wedding.
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Marrige Annulled between Catherine of Aragon and King Henry VIII.
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Named the title of Marquess of Pembroke, a position of honor, may have had 6 fingers or a defect of a 6th finger, on her coronation day she was brought down the river Thames and barges followed her boat for 4 miles, before her execution, her marriage was dissolved and declared invalid, and she was beheaded for adultery and her head and body was put in an arrow chest and buried in an unmarked grave in the Chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula at the Tower of London.
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King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn's daughter was born.
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Parliament passed the Act of Supremacy which made King Henry VIII the Surpreme Head of the Church of England.
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Catherine of Aragon's death.
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Marrige Annulled between Anne Boleyn and King Henry VIII.
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Anne Boleyn's death from execution.
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King Henry VIII and Jane Seymour's wedding.
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Married King Henry 11 days after Anne Boelyn's execution, was never crowned due to a plague in London, died 2 weeks after the birth of her only child Edward, only wife to have a queen's funeral, and the only wife to be buried beside Henry in St. George's Chapel in the Windsor Castle.
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King Henry VIII and Jane Seymour's son was born.
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Jane Seymour's death.
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King Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves's wedding.
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Henry married Anne after looking at paintings of her and her 2 sisters, she traveled from Germany to England to marry him, she was not liked by Henry and he protested the marriage but the ceremony went ahead, she received properties and a castle if she divorced Henry and she agreed, lived in England for the rest of her life and became one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in England.
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Marrige annulled between Anne of Cleves and King Henry VIII.
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King Henry VIII and Catherine Howard's wedding.
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Married King Henry when she was 19 and he was 49, appointed an admirer as her personal secretary, she was executed for adultery and was barried near Anne Boelyn at the Tower of London, she confessed to other relationships and they were also executed, she was sentenced to be executed and 2 days before her beheading, she practiced putting her head on the chopping block.
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Marrige Annulled between Catherine Howard and King Henry VIII.
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Catherine Howard's death
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King Henry VIII and Catherine Parr's wedding.
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She was named after Catherine of Aragon, was fluent in French, Latin, Italian, and Spanish, had 2 husbands die by the time she was 31, was the first queen to have 2 books published, and was married a 4th time and had her 1st child Mary at age 36.
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King Henry VIII's death.
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Crowned King at only 9 years old, he was too young to be in charge so a Regency Council made the decisions, lots of social unrest and economic problems during his reign, wanted Jane Grey's sons to be heir to the throne but when he realized he was going to die soon he wanted Mary to be the Queen, they allowed churchmen to get married.
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Catherine Parr's death
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Edward's death
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Was called "Bloody Mary" because of her strict law of persecuting Protestants, restored Roman Catholicism after years of Protestantism, assembled a military force that grew her support to become Queen, wanted a child to take the throne after her (to keep Catholicism going) instead of her sister Elizabeth, a protestant, and was married 2 days after she met her husband Philip.
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Anne of Cleves's death.
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Once Queen Elizabeth took the throne after Mary, she re-established the Act of Supremacy to allow England to be Protestant again.
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Mary's death
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She became queen at 25, went to war with Spain and won, she brought protestantism back as the official religion of England, she had her first cousin (once removed), Mary Queen of Scots, executed, thought to have been in love with friend Robert Dudley.
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Elizabeth's death