Henry VIII
English
Henry VIII was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death in 1547. - AsNotedIn
Henry VIII was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death in 1547. - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1491/06/28 | Henry Tudor is born at Greenwich Palace (demolished in 1660). | Born | Royal Naval College | Greenwich | |||
| 1525/00/00 | Henry VIII following of his hawk, leapt over a ditch with a pole and the pole broke, so that if one Edmond Moody, had not leapt into the water and lifted up his head, which was fast in the clay, he had been drowned, but God of his goodness preserved him. | Life | Maydencroft Manor | St Ippolyts | |||
| 1525/00/00 | The royal workshops craft a lavishly embellished portable writing desk for Henry VIII. It is currently in the Victoria and Albert Museum. | Owner | Victoria And Albert Museum | London | |||
| 1525/00/00 | Barn built Early C16, King-post trusses, 2 forked at the base, stand on unusually long tiebeams (10 m), 6 are scarfed. Scarfs are splayed and tabled, with central keys and square undersquinted butts, a method normally found in C13 and C14 buildings. | Owner | Anne of Cleeves Manor Barn | Great Bardfield | |||
| 1530/00/00 | King Henry VIII deposes Cardinal Wolsey and acquires York Place (lost) as his main residence. | Fragments of Old Whitehall Palace, Queen Mary's Steps | London | ||||
| 1536/00/00 | "Portrait of Henry VIII" is created. | Sitter | Portrait of Henry VIII | ||||
| 1540/00/00 | In the Chapel Royal, Archbishop Cranmer gives Henry VIII a letter detailing various accusations against the King's wife, Catherine Howard. | Life | Hampton Court | Molesey | |||
| 1547/01/28 | Henry VIII dies in the Palace of Whitehall, London. | Died | Fragments of Old Whitehall Palace, Queen Mary's Steps | London | |||
| 1547/02/16 | Henry VIII is interred in a vault in St George's Chapel Windsor, alongside his third wife, Jane Seymour. | In Memoriam | Windsor Castle | Windsor |