THE SIX WIVES OF HENRY VIII: Anne Boleyn

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Boleyn, Anne (c. 1507–1536)

Queen of England 1533–36 as the second wife of Henry VIII. She gave birth to the future Queen Elizabeth I in 1533, but was unable to produce a male heir to the throne, and was executed on a false charge.

Having no male heir by his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, Henry broke from Rome and the pope (starting the Reformation) in order to divorce Catherine and marry Anne. She was married to him in 1533, but three years later was accused of adultery and incest with her half‐brother (a charge invented by Thomas Cromwell), and sent to the Tower of London. She was declared guilty, and was beheaded on 19 May 1536 at Tower Green.


From the Hutchinson Encyclopedia of World History. © Research Machines plc [2006] All Rights Reserved, Helicon Publishing is a division of Research Machines.
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25 January 1533

In England, King Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn.

19 May 1536

Anne Boleyn, second wife of King Henry VIII of England and mother of Elizabeth (the future Queen Elizabeth) is executed outside the Tower of London for alleged adultery.

23 May 1533
In England, The Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, declares Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon to be void and his marriage to Anne Boleyn legal.
30 May 1536
King Henry VIII of England marries his third wife, Jane Seymour - 11 days after the execution of wife number two, Anne Boleyn.
 

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