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1532 Anne Boleyn made Marquis/Marquess of Pembroke in her own right
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1553 Edward Courtenay made Earl of Devonshire
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1539 Betrothal of Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves

1588 Death of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester

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1548 Death of Catherine Parr

1569 Death of Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London, in prison

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1533 Birth of Elizabeth I – a daughter for Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn
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1560 Death of Amy Robsart, wife of Robert Dudley – Her body was found at the bottom of the stairs of her house in Cumnor, Oxford.
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1513 Battle of Flodden and death of James IV
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1533 Christening of Elizabeth at Greenwich

1547 Battle of Pinkie Cleugh (Black Saturday), Scotland – part of the War of the Rough Wooing

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1520 Birth of William Cecil, Lord Burghley

1557 Death of scholar Sir John Cheke

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1585 Sir Francis Drake sets sail from England to Spain
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1559 – Francis II accedes to the French throne
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1486 Birth of Arthur, Prince of Wales (Henry VIII’s older brother)
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1515 Birth of Anne of Cleves
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1571 Death of Bishop Jewel
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1586 Mary Queen of Scots taken to Fotheringhay Castle
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1501 Catherine of Aragon leaves Spain for England
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1599 Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, arrived in London
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1528 Arrival of Cardinal Campeggio in England

1564 Elizabeth I made Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester

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