​c.1501

Anne Boleyn is born to Sir Thomas Boleyn and Elizabeth Howard.

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11 June 1509

Henry VIII marries his first wife, Catherine of Aragon.

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1513

Thomas Boleyn sends Anne to be educated at the court of Margaret of Austria.

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October 1514

Anne and her older sister Mary Boleyn become ladies-in-waiting to Mary Tudor, Henry VIII’s sister, when she marries Louis XII of France.

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1 January 1515

​Louis XII dies, his cousin and son-in-law Francis I becoming king. Anne stays within the French household for the new queen, Claude, where she lived for about seven years.

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March 1522

Anne makes her debut at the English court, after a potential marriage to her cousin James Butler in order to settle a title dispute.​​​​

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c.1527

Henry VIII becomes infatuated with Anne​

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1 September 1532

​Anne is created the Marchioness of Pembroke.

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November 1532

​Potential evidence of a formal commitment made between Anne and Henry.

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25 January 1533

​Anne and Henry get married

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23 May 1533

​Henry’s marriage to Catherine is officially annulled.

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1 June 1533

​Anne is crowned Queen Consort.

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7 September 1533

​Anne gives birth to a daughter, Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth I.

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7 January 1536

​Catherine of Aragon dies, eliminating much of the disapproval surrounding the validity of Anne as Henry’s queen and wife.

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29 January 1536 

​Anne has a miscarriage, reportedly of a stillborn boy.

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30 April-4 May 1536 

​Mark Smeaton, Henry Norris, William Brereton, Sir Francis Weston, Sir Thomas Wyatt and Sir Richard Page were all arrested in connection with adulteries to the queen.

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2 May 1536 

​Anne is arrested along with her brother George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford.

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10 May 1536

 All except Page and Wyatt are indicted of adultery crimes with the queen, including charges of incest with her brother.

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12 May 1536 

​The trial of the commoners: Mark Smeaton pleads guilty to adultery, with the others not guilty on all accounts, but all were condemned.

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15 May 1536

​The trial of Anne and George: both were declared guilty.

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17 May 1536

​The men are executed.

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19 May 1536

Anne Boleyn is executed.