Today is the day in which Henry and Anne famously wore yellow to celebrate the death of Katherine of Aragon, which happened yesterday, the seventh. Sources vary on exactly what was worn, and by whom.

Tudor Minute January 8, 1536: Henry and Anne Wear Yellow

Today in 1531 Pope Clement VII wrote to Henry in England telling him that if he remarried he would be excommunicated.

Tudor Minute January 5: Henry Gets Instructions

On January 4, 1493 Christopher Columbus left the new islands he had stumbled upon in the Caribbean to return back to Spain. He had left Spain in August 1492 attempting to find an all water route to Asia. Instead, he landed in San Salvador.

Tudor Minute January 4: Columbus Sails Home

Jasper Tudor

Today in 1495 Jasper Tudor died. He was the uncle of Henry Tudor, Henry VII, and it was largely due to his work protecting his nephew that Henry survived and was able to become King.

Tudor Minute December 21: RIP Jasper Tudor

Today in 1542 James V of Scotland died, after becoming ill when his army was defeated at the Battle of Solway Moss about three weeks before. He had already taken to his bed when his wife, Marie of Guise, gave birth to their daughter, Mary.

Tudor Minute December 14: RIP James V

Today in 1541 London was reeling from the executions of Thomas Culpepper and Francis Dereham, that happened yesterday. Dereham had been arrested after Thomas Cranmer let Henry know that his fifth wife, Katherine Howard, was no virginal maid, and in fact had been with Dereham before she was married.

Tudor Minute December 11: Aftermath of Executions

Mary Queen

It’s been a week of Mary, Queen of Scots, and that’s set to continue today, as it’s her birthday. She was born in 1542, the daughter of James V of Scotland, and his wife Marie of Guise, from France. She became Queen when she was only 8 days old, when her father died, and was crowned Queen when she wasn’t even a year old.

Tudor Minute December 8 – Happy Birthday, Mary Queen of Scot

Henry Stewart

Today is the birthday of Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley, who was the grandson of Margaret Tudor by her second husband, Archibald Douglas. While he had a claim to both the English and Scottish thrones, he is most remembered for being the second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, and then being murdered, thus setting into play the chaos that led to Mary’s fleeing Scotland.

Tudor Minute December 7: Happy Birthday Henry Stewart, Lord

Today in 1555 the Pope in Rome handed down a sentence on the Protestant Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, saying that he was stripped of his archbishopric, and all of his ecclesiastical dignities.

Tudor Minute December 4: The Pope strips Cranmer of his Arch

Today in 1536 Henry proclaimed that the rebels in the Pilgrimage of Grace would be offered a pardon if they submitted to Henry’s officers in the region. In this proclamation, Henry also said that he would hold a Parliament at York, which was one of the major demands of the rebels.

Tudor Minute December 3: Henry Gives Temporary Grace

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Today in 1606, just three years after Elizabeth’s death, three ships left England.They were called the Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery, and they were carrying the settlers who would found Jamestown, the first English colony in America.

Tudor Minute December 19: The beginning of Jamestown

Katherine Mourns

Tudor Minute December 11: Katherine Mourns her Loves

Today in 1554 Lady Jane Grey and her husband Guilford Dudley, were executed at the Tower of London.

Tudor Minute February 12: Lady Jane Grey executed

Edward VI

Today in 1547 Henry VIII’s son Edward was crowned Edward VI. He was only nine years old.

Tudor Minute February 20: Edward VI is crowned

Today in 1555 the Pope in Rome handed down a sentence on the Protestant Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, saying that he was stripped of his archbishopric, and all of his ecclesiastical dignities. The pope also gave permission for the secular authorities to decide his fate.

Tudor Minute December 4: Cranmer Sentenced

Today in 1542 Katherine Howard and Jane Rochford were executed at the Tower of London.

Tudor Minute February 13: A pair of executions

Francis Drake

Today in 1577 Francis Drake left for his voyage around the world. He would go on to successfully circumnavigate the globe, the first English explorer to do so, on a journey that took 1020 days.

Tudor Minute December 13: Bon Voyage Francis Drake

Today is St. Nicholas Day, a day devoted to children in the Tudor period. During the feast of St. Nicholas, a boy from the choir would be chosen as the Boy Bishop, a tradition that dated from the Anglo Saxon period.

Tudor Minute December 6: St Nicholas Day

John Forrest

Today in 1538 John Forrest, a Franciscan friar, was executed for daring to denounce moves to make the king head of the Church.

Tudor Minute May 22 RIP John Forrest

Today in 1559 Elizabeth I signed the Act of Uniformity. This was part of the Elizabethan religious settlement and compromise which left no one fully happy - a sign of a good compromise if there ever was one.

Tudor Minute May 8: Elizabeth signs the Act of Uniformity

Today in 1517 we saw the Evil May Day Riots. Two weeks previously a Dr Bell preached a sermon against immigrants who were coming to England to take the jobs of native born Englishmen, and encouraged people to attack foreigners.

Tudor Minute May 1: Evil May Day Riots

Robert Southwell

Today in 1595 Robert Southwell was executed. He was a Jesuit priest who had been arrested three years earlier, had been tortured, and finally executed today. Though his family had always had Catholic leanings, they profited from the Suppression of the Monasteries

Tudor Minute February 21: Robert Southwell is Executed

Sir Philip Sidney

Sir Philip Sidney died in 1586. Sir Philip was born in 1554 in Kent, and he is remembered for his poetry, but also as a national hero for defending the Protestants in the Low Countries, and dying in battle.

Tudor Minute October 17: Sir Philip Sidney dies

Mary Queen of Scots

Today in 1486 the trial of Mary Queen of Scots began. At first she had refused to take part in any trial saying that it didn’t apply to her because she was the Queen of Scotland and the laws of England weren’t applicable.  But she was told by Cecil that it would take place with or without her, and so she showed up in a black velvet gown.

Tudor Minute October 14: Mary Queen of Scots goes on trial

Today in 1537 Henry VIII finally got his longed-for son when Edward was born to Jane Seymour. He was born inside his mother’s room in Hampton Court. Throughout the realm, the people greeted the birth of a male heir, "whom we hungered for so long", with joy and relief. Te Deums were sung in churches, bonfires lit, and "their was shott at the Tower that night above two thousand gonnes".

Tudor Minute October 12: Happy Birthday Edward

Edward Wotton

Today in 1555 Edward Wotten died. He was an English doctor who was born in Oxford, and he is remembered for starting the modern study of zoology. He separated out much of the fanciful and folkloric additions that had been added over time to the body of zoological knowledge.

Tudor Minute October 5: RIP Edward Wotton

Robert Dudley

Today in 1588 Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, died.

Tudor Minute September 4: Robert Dudley Dies

William Of Orange

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Tudor Minute July 10: William of Orange is assassinated

Today in 1535 Thomas More was executed. Learn more in today's Tudor Minute.

Tudor Minute July 6: Sir Thomas More executed

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