Elizabeth Stuart, the “Winter Queen” of Bohemia, died on 13 February 1662 in London - far from the kingdom she once briefly ruled, yet leaving behind a legacy that would shape the future of the British monarchy. Read more on IG! @ allthingstudors

On 12 February 1554, England witnessed one of the most tragic episodes of the Tudor succession crisis: the executions of Queen Jane and her husband Guildford Dudley at the Tower of London. Read more on IG! @ allthingstudors

On 11 February 1531, Henry VIII secured the title of Supreme Head of the Church of England - a title carefully qualified with the phrase “so far as the law of Christ allows,” but one that nevertheless marked a decisive shift in authority. Read more on IG! @ allthingstudors

Review: Queen James (U.S. title The Six Loves of James I) by Gareth Russell A nuanced, beautifully written portrait of James VI & I. A must-read for Tudor-Stuart history fans. Honestly, history writing at its best! Read more on IG! @ allthingstudors

The English Reformation claimed one of its most tragic victims on 9 February 1555 with the execution of Bishop John Hooper, burned at the stake in Gloucester. Read more on IG! @ allthingstudors

On 7 February 1587, Elizabeth I’s signed death warrant arrived at Fotheringhay Castle and was read aloud to Mary, Queen of Scots. After nearly 19 years as England’s royal prisoner, Mary was formally told she would die the following morning. Read more on IG! @ allthingstudors

Queen Anne was born on 6 February 1665, at St James’s Palace. Her reign closed the Stuart chapter of British history, paving the way for the Hanoverian succession and a new era of constitutional monarchy. Read more on IG! @ allthingstudors

On 5 February 1549, the fifteen year old Lady Elizabeth was summoned before Sir Robert Tyrwhitt. Elizabeth faced probing questions meant to test her judgment and loyalty to the regime of her half-brother, Edward VI. Read more on IG! @ allthingstudors

On 4 February 1194, King Richard I - the Lionheart - was finally released from captivity, bringing one of the most dramatic episodes of medieval kingship to an end. Read more on IG! @ allthingstudors

On 3 February 1461, Owen Tudor was executed. Captured after the Lancastrian defeat at the Battle of Mortimer’s Cross, Owen was taken to Hereford, where he was beheaded without trial. Read more on IG! @ allthingstudors

On 2 February 1488, at just nearly 15, Prince James, the future James IV of Scotland, left Stirling Castle to join in open revolt against his father, James III. Within months, father and son would face each other on the battlefield. Read more on IG! @ allthingstudors

On 1 February 1327, Edward III was crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey. Although crowned with all the solemnity of tradition, real power initially rested with Edward’s mother, Isabella of France, and her ally Roger Mortimer. Read more on IG! @ allthingstudors

On 31 January 1510 Catherine of Aragon gave birth to a stillborn daughter. The succession crisis was shaped slowly, through private anguish, medical misunderstanding, and expectations that pressed long before politics turned ruthless. Read more on IG! @ allthingstudors

On 30 January 1495, the trial of Sir William Stanley began at Westminster. Stanley admitted he would not fight against Perkin Warbeck if the claimant truly proved to be Richard, Duke of York - a statement Henry interpreted as treason. Read more on IG! @ allthingstudors

Dr. Nicola Tallis and Nathen Amin’s Wars of the Roses event was nothing short of exceptional! From start to finish, it struck that balance between rigorous scholarship & engaging storytelling, making a complex period feel fresh & urgent again. 📸: @nicolatallis.bsky.social & @nathenamin.bsky.social

On 28 January 1521, the Diet of Worms formally opened in the imperial city of Worms, in modern day Germany. Convened by the young Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, the assembly was called to address the explosive challenge posed by Martin Luther. Read more on IG! @ allthingstudors

On 27 January 1596 , Francis Drake died off the coast of Portobelo in the Spanish Main. Struck by dysentery during a faltering expedition against Spanish possessions, Drake died at sea. He was buried at sea in a lead coffin. Read more on IG! @ allthingstudors

On 26 January 1554, Queen Mary I wrote to her half-sister Elizabeth - not with sisterly warmth, but with a summons that carried the weight of a warning. Read more on IG! @ allthingstudors

Dr. Owen Emmerson’s Treason and the Tudor Crown was such a brilliant, thought-provoking event. I loved seeing how the idea of treason evolved under each Tudor monarch and giving us a glimpse into the psyche of each ruler. Read more on IG! @ allthingstudors 📸: @drowenemmerson.bsky.social

On 24 January 1503, a symbolic moment took place at Westminster Abbey: the foundation stone was laid for what would become one of the most breathtaking royal building projects of the Tudor age - now know as the iconic Henry VII’s Lady Chapel. Read more on IG! @ allthingstudors

On 23 January 1516, Ferdinand II of Aragon died at Madrigalejo. Ferdinand had helped shape Spain into a rising superpower, and his influence reached into Tudor England through the diplomacy Henry VII depended on to secure his fragile dynasty. Read more on IG! @ allthingstudors

On 22 January 1575, James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Arran, died at Hamilton Castle - closing the long, turbulent life of one of the most powerful and controversial men of 16th-century Scotland. Read more on IG! @ allthingstudors

On 21 January 1590, King James VI of Scotland arrived with his new queen, Anna of Denmark, at Kronborg Castle - the great Danish stronghold at Helsingør - so Anna could be reunited with the family she had left behind. Read more on IG! @ allthingstudors

On 20 January 1327, King Edward II was confronted at Kenilworth Castle and pressured into giving up the throne - one of the most dramatic royal downfalls in English history. He was moved into tighter captivity at Berkeley Castle and died later that year. Read more on IG! @allthingstudors

On 19 January 1636, the celebrated Flemish-born portraitist Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger died - an artist whose brush helped define the look of late Elizabethan England and the early Jacobean court. Read more on IG! @allthingstudors

On 17 January 1194, a date was set - at least on paper - for the release of King Richard I of England, better known to history as Richard the Lionheart. Richard would ultimately be freed a little later, on 4 February 1194. Read more on IG! @ allthingstudors

On 16 January 1486, Henry VII and Elizabeth of York received their papal dispensation. Henry didn’t delay marrying Elizabeth bc he wanted to see if she could bear children first. He waited for the dispensation. 2 days later, they married. Read more on IG! @ allthingstudors

On 15 January 1555, Lady Jane Dudley, Duchess of Northumberland, died. She was buried at Chelsea Old Church on 1 February 1555 - a quiet ending for a woman who lived at the center of one of the Tudor era’s loudest storms. Read more on IG! @ allthingstudors

On 14 January 1476, Anne St. Leger was born. She was the daughter of Anne of York, Duchess of Exeter, sister to Kings Edward IV and Richard III. But Anne’s birth carried a brutal cost: her mother died the same day. Read more on IG! @ allthingstudors

On 13 January 1496, Perkin Warbeck - the man claiming to be Richard, Duke of York, one of the infamous “Princes in the Tower” - married Lady Katherine Gordon at the court of King James IV of Scotland. Read more on IG! @ allthingstudors

On 12 January 1519, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, King of the Romans, Archduke of Austria, and one of the most formidable political minds of late medieval Europe, died at the age of 59, in Wels, Austria. Read more on IG! @ allthingstudors

Robert Devereux was born on 11 January 1591. From disgraced heir to commander of Parliament’s forces, Robert Devereux’s life reflects the long arc of consequence, memory, and survival in Tudor and Stuart England Read more on IG! @ allthingstudors

On 10 January 1480, Margaret of Austria was born in Brussels. The daughter of Maximilian I and Mary of Burgundy, Margaret’s life was shaped from infancy by dynastic ambition. Read more on IG! @ allthingstudors

On 9 January 1450, Adam Moleyns, Bishop of Chichester and a trusted royal administrator, was violently killed by English sailors in Portsmouth - a shocking act that reflected the deep unrest gripping England. Read more on IG! @ allthingstudors

On 8 January 1499, Louis XII of France married Anne of Brittany, a union that was far more than a royal romance - it was a decisive political act that shaped the future of France. Read more on IG! @ allthingstudors

On 7 January 1619, Nicholas Hilliard was laid to rest at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, a short distance from the royal courts he had spent a lifetime observing, recording, and subtly shaping. Read more on IG! @ allthingstudors

On 6 January 1538, Jane Dormer was born at Eythrope in Buckinhamshire - one of the most remarkable Englishwomen to bridge the Tudor and Habsburg worlds. Read more on IG! @ allthingstudors

On 5 January 1511, England celebrated the baptism of Henry, Duke of Cornwall, the long-awaited son of King Henry VIII and Queen Catherine of Aragon, at the Chapel of the Observant Friars at Richmond. Read more on IG! @ allthingstudors

Following his death in December 1568, Roger Ascham was laid to rest on 4 January 1569, at St Sepulchre-without-Newgate, near St Stephen’s Chapel. Read more on IG! @ allthingstudors

On 3 January 1437, Katherine of Valois, Queen of England and daughter of a French king, died at Bermondsey Abbey at around the age of 35. She was buried at Westminster Abbey, near her husband, King Henry V. Read more on IG! @ allthingstudors

On 2 January 1315, Piers Gaveston, once the powerful and controversial favorite of King Edward II, was finally laid to rest at King’s Langley Priory- nearly three years after his brutal execution. Read more on IG! @ allthingstudors

Elizabeth of York, Duchess of Suffolk, who died on 1 January 1503, was one of the last living daughters of the House of York and a quiet but crucial thread linking England’s warring dynasties.She was laid to rest at Wingfield Church. Read more on IG! @ allthingstudors

On 31 December 1535, Sir William Skeffington died at Kilmainham in Dublin before the Kildare rebellion was fully extinguished, never seeing its final resolution. Skeffington was laid to rest at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin. Read more on IG! @ allthingstudors

On 30 December 1546, the gravely ill King Henry VIII signed his final will and testament at Whitehall Palace, laying out not only his personal wishes but the political future of Tudor England. Read more on IG! @ allthingstudors

On 29 December 1170, Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, was brutally killed inside Canterbury Cathedral - one of the most shocking crimes of the Middle Ages. Read more on IG! @ allthingstudors

On 28 December 1694, Queen Mary II died at Kensington Palace. Mary died at just 32 years old from smallpox. Her death shocked the nation. She was laid to rest in Westminster Abbey. Read more on IG! @ allthingstudors

Katherine Cooke Killigrew died on 27 December 1583. At around 41, Katherine went into labor & delivered a stillborn child. She died soon after from complications of childbirth. Katherine was buried at St. Thomas the Apostle Church in London. Read more on IG! @ allthingstudors

The Other Tudors, a brilliant course by Claire Ridgway, explored the overlooked figures who shaped the dynasty. Highlights: Nathen Amin on the Welsh Tudors & Melanie Clegg on Margaret Tudor. A reminder that the Tudors were far more than their greatest hits! 📸: Claire Ridgway

On 25 December 1483, in Rennes Cathedral, Henry Tudor made a public vow. Living in exile in Brittany and facing daunting odds, Henry swore that if he won the crown, he would marry Elizabeth of York, eldest daughter of King Edward IV. Read more on IG! @ allthingstudors

King John was born on 24 December 1166 at Beaumont Palace in Oxford, the youngest son of King Henry II of England and Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine. Born on Christmas Eve, John’s life would be anything but holy or harmonious. Read more on IG! @ allthingstudors