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Timeline

c.1501

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

11 June 1509

Henry VIII marries his first wife, Catherine of Aragon.

1513

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

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.

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.

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.

c.1527

Henry VIII becomes infatuated with Anne

1 September 1532

Anne is created the Marchioness of Pembroke.

November 1532

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

25 January 1533

Anne and Henry get married

23 May 1533

​Henry’s marriage to Catherine is officially annulled.

1 June 1533

​Anne is crowned Queen Consort.

7 September 1533

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

7 January 1536

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

29 January 1536 

Anne has a miscarriage, reportedly of a stillborn boy.

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.

2 May 1536 

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

10 May 1536

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

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.

15 May 1536

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

17 May 1536

​The men are executed.

19 May 1536

Anne Boleyn is executed.

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