JANUARY January 1 Charles II crowned King of England (1651). January 4 King Charles I started the English civil war (1641). January 5 Died Edward The Confessor, featured in the Bayeux tapestry (1066). January 6 Born Richard II, King of England (1366). King Henry VIII married Anne of Cleves, 'the Flanders Mare', his fourth wife (1540). January 15 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth I (1559). January 20 First English parliament met in Westminster Hall, under King Henry III (1265). January 21 Born Henry VII, King of England (1456). January 23 Died James Earl of Moray, Regent of Scotland (1570). January 25 Deposition of Edward II, King of England (1327). King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn secretly married (1533). January 28 Died King Henry VIII, King of England (1547). January 29 Died George III, King of England (1820). Britain’s highest military decoration, the Victoria Cross, was founded by Queen Victoria (1856). January 30 Died Charles I, whose execution lead to the establishment of the Commonwealth of England (1649). FEBRUARY February 6 Born Anne, Queen of England (1665). Died Charles II, King of England (1685). February 7 Edward Caernarvon became first Prince of Wales, and later, King Edward II (1301). February 8 Died (beheaded) Mary, Queen of Scotland (1587). February 10 Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, both aged 20, married (1840). February 11 Born Mary I, Queen of England (1516). February 13 William of Orange and Mary ascended the throne of Great Britain as joint sovereigns (1689). February 14 Died (murdered) Richard II, King of England (1400). February 16 25,000 prisoners in India released to celebrate Queen Victoria’s jubilee (1887). February 21 Died (murdered) James I, King of England (1437). February 24 Died St Ethelbert, first Christian King of England (616). February 25 Coronation of Edward II, King of England (1308). Pope Pius V excommunicated Queen Elizabeth I (1570). MARCH March 1 Died Mary, Queen of England (1619). March 8 Died (in a riding accident) William III, King of England (1702). March 11 Royal Chelsea Hospital for soldiers founded by Charles II (1682). March 17 Died Edward, King of England (978). March 20 Died Henry IV, King of England (1413). March 21 Died St Benedict, Italian (550). Born Robert Bruce, King of Scotland (1274). March 24 Died Elizabeth, Queen of England (1603). Crowns of England and Scotland united when King James VI succeeded to the English throne (1603). March 25 Robert I, the Bruce, crowned King of Scotland (1306). Died Henry VIII, King of England (1546). March 27 Died James I, King of England (1625) . APRIL April 1 Died Robert III, King of Scotland (1406). April 2 Died B Constantine, King of Scotland (874). April 3 Born Richard II, King of England (1366). April 4 Queen Elizabeth I knighted navigator Francis Drake (1581). April 6 Died Richard I ’Richard The Lionheart’, King of England (1199). April 9 Died Edward IV, King of England (1483). April 11 Coronation of William III and Mary II (1689). April 14 Battle of Barnet, during the Wars of the Roses, where the Yorkists defeated the Lancastrians (1471). April 21 Henry VIII crowned King of England (1509). April 22 Died Henry VII, King of England (1509). April 23 Edward III, King of England, founded the Order of the Garter (1344). Charles II crowned King of Great Britain and Ireland (1661). April 24 Mary, Queen of Scotland, married the French Dauphin (1558). April 25 Born Oliver Cromwell, English general and (1599). Born Edward II, King of England (1284). April 26 Duke of York and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon married at Westminster Abbey (1923). April 29 Born Edward IV, King of England (1441). April 30 Born Mary II, Queen of England (1662). MAY May 1 Died Maud, Queen of England (1118). May 2 Queen Anne Boleyn, sent to the Tower of London (1536). May 6 Died Edward VII, King of England (1910). May 9 Treaty of Windsor made an alliance between England and Portugal (1386). May 11 King Henry VIII made peace with his nephew, King James V of Scotland (1534). May 12 Coronation of King George VI (1937). May 15 Mary, Queen of Scots, married Bothwell in Edinburgh (1567). Born Zara Phillips, daughter of Princess Anne and Mark Phillips (1981). May 19 Died Anne Boleyn, queen of King Henry VIII, beheaded for alleged (1536). May 21 Charles II married Catherine de Braganza, daughter of John IV of Portugal (1662). Died Henry VI, King of England, murdered in the Tower of London (1471). May 22 Olaf the White received the submission of Vikings and Danes and made Dublin his capital (853). May 23 King Henry VIII divorced his first wife Catherine of Aragon to marry Anne Boleyn (1533). May 24 Born Victoria, Queen of England (1819). May 26 Born Mary, Queen of England (1867). May 27 Died Edward, Duke of Windsor, Paris (1972). May 28 Born George I, King of England (1660). May 29 Born Charles II, King of England (1630). Engagement of Princess Anne and Lieutenant Mark Phillips officially announced (1973) May 30 Died Arthur, King of England (542). King Henry VIII married Jane Seymour, his third wife (1536). JUNE June 2 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II (1953). June 4 Llewelyn ap Gruffydd, King of Gwynedd in North Wales, defeated an English attack (1239). Born George III, King of England (1738). June 6 Caroline, Princess of Wales entered London, demanding her recognition as Queen (1820). June 7 Died Robert Bruce, King of Scotland (1329). June 8 Died Harthacnut, King of England and Denmark (1042). Died ’The Black Prince’, son of King Edward III (1376). June 10 Died George I, King of England (1727). Born Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921). June 11 King Henry VIII married Catherine of Aragon, his first wife (1509). Died James III, King of Scotland, murdered (1488). June 15 Born Edward the Black Prince, son of King Edward III (1330). June 16 Born Edward I, King of England (1239). Mary, Queen of Scotland, recognised Philip II of Spain as her heir (1586). June 18 Charles I crowned King of Scotland (1633). June 19 Born King James VI of Scotland (1566). June 20 Died William IV, King of England (1837). June 21 Died Edward III, King of England (1377). Born Prince William (1982). June 22 Richard II became King of England (1377). Coronation of George V (1911). June 23 Born Edward VIII, King of England until he abdicated to marry an American divorcee (1894). Prince Charles awarded a 2:2 in history at Cambridge (1970). June 25 End of the English Civil War, with the surrender of the Royalists to the Roundheads (1646). June 26 Richard III acceded to the throne of England (1483). Died George IV, King of England (1830). June 28 Born Henry VIII, King of England (1491). Coronation of Queen Victoria, aged 19 years (1838). June 30 Prince Michael of Kent married Austrian Baroness Marie von Reibnitz (1978). JULY July 1 Died Edgar, King of England (975). Born Diana, Princess of Wales (1961). July 4 Born Prince Michael of Kent (1942). Burke’s Peerage revealed that George Bush was the Queen’s 13th cousin (1988). July 6 Died Edward VI, King of England, of tuberculosis aged 15 (1553). Mary I acceded to the throne, the first queen to rule England in her own right (1553). July 7 Died Edward I, King of England (1307). July 10 King Henry VI captured by the Yorkists at Northampton in the War of Roses, England (1460). Lady Jane Grey became Queen for just 9 days after the death of Edward VI (1553). July 11 Born Robert The Bruce, King of Scotland (1274). July 12 King Henry VIII married his 6th and last wife, Catherine Parr (1543). July 13 Queen Victoria became the first sovereign to move into Buckingham Palace (1837). July 16 Coronation of King Richard II July 17 Royal family changed its title from House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to House of Windsor (1917). July 18 Lady Helen Windsor married Tim Taylor at Windsor, England (1992). July 19 Mary Tudor proclaimed Queen of England (1553). George IV crowned King of England (1821). July 23 Prince Andrew married Lady Sarah Ferguson, Westminster Abbey, London (1986). July 25 Coronation of King James I (1603). July 26 Born Henry VII, King of England (1456). Charles, the Queen’s eldest son, was created Prince of Wales (1958). July 29 Prince of Wales married Lady Diana Spencer at London’s St Paul’s Cathedral (1981). AUGUST August 1 Died Queen Anne, with George I succeeding her to the throne (1714). August 2 Died King William II, accidentally killed by an arrow while hunting in the New Forest (1100). August 4 Born Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, The Queen Mother (1900). August 7 Buckingham Palace officially opened its doors visitors (1993). August 8 Born Princess Beatrice, first child of Prince Andrew and the Duchess of York (1988). August 12 Born King George IV (1762). The Princess of York, later to be named Beatrice, made her public debut (1988). August 15 Born HRH Princess Anne (1950). August 19 Coronation of Edward I (1274). August 21 Born King William IV (1765). Born HRH Princess Margaret (1930). August 22 English Civil War began between supporters of King Charles I and of Parliament (1642). August 26 Born Prince Albert, Consort to Queen Victoria (1819). Born HRH The Duke of Gloucester (1944). August 31 Died Henry V, King of England (1422). Henry VI, at 9 months old, acceded as king (1422). SEPTEMBER September 3 Died Oliver Cromwell, general and statesman (1658). September 7 Born Elizabeth, Queen of England (1533). September 8 Born King Richard I, King of England known as Richard the Lionheart (1157). September 10 Died William The Conqueror (1087). September 15 Born HRH Prince Henry, second son of the Prince of Wales and Lady Diana (1984). September 16 Born Henry V, King of England (1387). Died James II, King of England (1701). September 21 Died Edward II, King of England (1327). September 30 Transfer of the English crown from the House of Plantagenet to the House of Lancaster (1399). OCTOBER October 1 Born Henry III, King of England (1207) October 2 Born Richard III, King of England (1452). October 6 Born Edward V, King of England (1470). October 9 Henry VI restored to the throne (1470). October 12 Born Edward VI, King of England (1537). October 14 Born James II, King of England (1633). Died Harold II, last Saxon king of England, killed by William the Conqueror (1066). October 19 Died John, King of England (1216). October 20 Coronation of George I (1714). October 21 Died Athelstan, King of England (940). October 25 Died Stephen, King of England (1154). Died George II, King of England (1760). October 28 Died Alfred The Great, King of England (900). October 30 Born George II, King of England (1683). NOVEMBER November 4 Born William III, King of England (1650). November 11 Died Canute the Dane, Viking King of England (1035). November 16 Died Henry III, King of England (1272). November 17 Died Mary I, Queen of England (1558) DECEMBER December 1 Died Henry I, King of England (1135). Born Queen Alexandra, consort of Edward VII (1844). December 6 Born King Henry VI (1421). December 7 Henry VI of England was crowned King of France (1431). December 8 Born Mary Queen of Scots (1542). December 10 King Edward VIII abdicated and became Duke of Windsor (1936). December 11 King George VI acceded to the throne (1936). December 14 Died James V, King of Scotland (1542). Mary acceded to the Scottish throne (1542). Died Prince Albert, Consort to Queen Victoria (1861). Born King George VI (1895). December 16 Oliver Cromwell became Lord Protector of the Commonwealth after execution of King Charles I (1653). December 25 William the Conqueror crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey (1066). December 26 King Stephen acceded to the throne of England (1135). December 28 Died Queen Mary II (1694). Died (killed) Richard, Duke of York (1460).