20 January – Miles Coverdale dies after giving his best ever sermon and Mary I’s Gentlemen Pensioners
On this day in Tudor history, 20th January 1569, not long after he'd given the best sermon of…
The Tudors
19 January – Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke and Execution of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
On this day in Tudor history, 19th January 1601, Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, died at Wilton,…
18 January – Henry VII and Elizabeth of York get married and Henry VIII dresses up
On this day in Tudor history, 18th January 1486, twenty-nine year-old King Henry VII married twenty year-old Elizabeth…
17 January – Poet Thomas Wyatt is arrested and Leicestershire woman gives birth to a cat
On this day in Tudor history, 17th January 1541, courtier, diplomat and poet, Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder,…
16 January – Thomas Howard breaks his promise about Mary, Queen of Scots, and Thomas Seymour’s kidnap attempt
On this day in Tudor history, 16th January 1572, Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, eldest son of…
14 December – Francis Kett leaps and dances in the fire, and Elizabeth I’s coronation procession
On this day in Tudor history, 14th January 1589, physician Francis Kett, was burned for heresy near Norwich…
13 January – The Prince of Poets and Henry Howard is tried for treason
On this day in Tudor history, 13th January 1599, Elizabethan poet and administrator in Ireland, Edmund Spenser, died…