Edmund I (the Elder) of Wessex, King of England, was murdered on 26 May 946 and was succeeded by his brother Eadred.

Princess Victoria Mary (May) of Teck, great-granddaughter of George III, consort (as Queen Mary) of George V, and great-grandmother of Charles III, was born in Kensington Palace on 26 May 1893.

Elizabeth Woodville, consort of Edward IV, was crowned on 26 May 1465. She was unpopular with the aristocracy, and the marriage caused a breach between Edward and the Earl of Warwick (the Kingmaker) that eventually led to the Earl changing sides in the Wars of the Roses.

Princess Helena, third daughter of Queen Victoria and wife of Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, was born in Buckingham Palace on 25 May 1846.

Richard Cromwell, son of Oliver Cromwell, resigned as Lord Protector on 25 May 1659 and was replaced by a Council of State. A year later, Charles II was invited to return to England and restore the monarchy. He landed at Dover on 25 May 1660.

Lady Jane Grey married Lord Guildford Dudley, son of the Duke of Northumberland, on 25 May 1553. The Duke made Lady Jane become queen when Edward VI died; she lasted less than 2 weeks before being replaced by Mary I, the rightful heir, and Jane, Guildford, and his father ended up being executed.

David I of Scotland died on 24 May 1153 and was succeeded by Malcolm IV. He was a supporter of Henry I's daughter Empress Matilda, and when the throne was usurped by King Stephen, David invaded and took control of much of northern England.

Prince Louis of Battenberg, First Sea Lord, father of Earl Mountbatten of Burma, and grandfather of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, was born in Graz on 24 May 1854.

Princess Alexandrina Victoria was born at Kensington Palace on 24 May 1819, the only daughter of Edward, Duke of Kent (fourth son of George III). As Queen Victoria, she reigned for 63 years, from 1837 until her death in 1901.

The 10-year-old Lambert Simnel was crowned in Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin, with the name of Edward VI, on 24 May 1487 in a bid to threaten Henry VII's reign.

Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou were formally betrothed on 24 May 1444.

Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood and husband of Princess Mary, daughter of George V, died in Yorkshire on 23 May 1947.

Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon was annulled by the Church of England on 23 May 1533.

Blanche of Lancaster, daughter of the future Henry IV and wife of Louis III, Elector Palatine, died on 22 May 1409, aged only 19, after giving birth to her second child. Her dowry included the oldest surviving crown known to have been in England.

Princess Elizabeth, daughter of George III and wife of Frederick VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, was born in London on 22 May 1770. She was middle-aged when she married, because Queen Charlotte did not want her daughters to leave her. She was one of only three of George III's daughters to marry.

George III and Queen Charlotte moved into Buckingham House (later Buckingham Palace) on 22 May 1762.

Wars of the Roses: At the First Battle of St Albans on 22 May 1455, Richard, Duke of York, defeated and captured Henry VI. Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, and Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland, died in battle.

King John and Philip II of France signed the Treaty of Le Goulet on 22 May 1200, confirming Philip's overlordship of John's French lands. The Channel Islands separated from Normandy and stayed under English control.

On 21 May 1471, Henry VI was quietly murdered in the Tower of London, where he had been imprisoned by Edward IV. With his death and the death of his only son a few days earlier at the Battle of Tewkesbury, the Lancastrian side in the Wars of the Roses had no direct heir.

Charles II married Catherine de Braganza, daughter of John IV of Portugal, at Portsmouth on 21 May 1662.

The Treaty of Troyes was signed on 21 May 1420, stating that Henry V would marry Catherine de Valois, daughter of Charles VI of France, and that Henry and his heirs would inherit the throne of France. The early deaths of Henry and Charles made the treaty impossible to enforce.

Æthelberht II of East Anglia was killed on 20 May 794 on the orders of Offa of Mercia.

Ecgfrith of Northumbria died fighting the Picts at the Battle of Nechantsmere on 20 May 685 and was succeeded by his half-brother Aldfrith.

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Henry VIII and Jane Seymour were betrothed on 20 May 1536, the day after Anne Boleyn's execution; they were married 10 days later.

Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife, was beheaded at the Tower of London on 19 May 1536. She was 29 years old. Although the evidence against her was unconvincing, the charges brought included treason, incest with her brother, and no less than four counts of adultery.

Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, consort of George III, was born in Germany on 19 May 1744. She was only 17 when she married the king, the day after she arrived in Britain. The bird of paradise flower strelitzia is named after her.

Mary Queen of Scots landed in England on 19 May 1568 after fleeing Scotland, having escaped from imprisonment at Loch Leven. She would never return.

Catherine of Aragon (aged 12) was married by proxy to Henry VII's son Arthur, Prince of Wales (aged 12), on 19 May 1499. On 14 November 1501 they were married in person in St Paul's Cathedral.

Edward III's third surviving son, John of Gaunt, married Blanche of Lancaster, daughter of Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster (a descendant of Henry III), on 19 May 1359. It was through this marriage that John gained the Duke of Lancaster title, a title still carried by the monarch.

Catherine Woodville, sister of Edward IV's wife Elizabeth Woodville and wife of the 2nd Duke of Buckingham and then of Henry VII's uncle Jasper Tudor, died on 18 May 1497 in her late thirties.

Charlotte, Princess Royal, eldest daughter of George III, married Frederick I of Württemberg on 18 May 1797. The marriage produced one stillborn daughter. She was the only daughter of George III to marry while still of childbearing age.

George I founded the Order of the Bath on 18 May 1725.

Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine, married the future Henry II on 18 May 1152. Her marriage to Louis VII of France had been annulled two months earlier and was childless. She went on to have five sons with Henry, two of whom (Richard I and John) became king.

Anne Boleyn's brother George, Viscount Rochford, and four other men were executed on 17 May 1536 for treason after being convicted on trumped-up charges of adultery (and, in George's case, incest) with Anne.

Caroline of Brunswick, unwanted and uncrowned consort of George IV, was born on 17 May 1768. She and her husband were first cousins, since she was the daughter of Princess Augusta, George III's sister.

Edmund, Earl of Rutland, son of Richard Duke of York and brother of Edward IV and Richard III, was born on 17 May 1443. He was killed at the Battle of Wakefield, along with his father, during the Wars of the Roses.

Anne of Denmark, consort of James VI, was crowned Queen of Scotland on 17 May 1590.

Henry III was crowned in Westminster Abbey on 17 May 1220, having been crowned at Gloucester aged 9 in 1216 soon after his father's death.

Elizabeth II addressed a joint session of the U.S. Congress on 16 May 1991, the first British monarch to do so.

The future William IV was created Duke of Clarence and St Andrews by his father, George III, on 16 May 1789.

Sir Thomas More resigned as Lord Chancellor of England on 16 May 1532. He opposed the Henry VIII's separation of the Church of England from the Catholic Church and refused to accept the King as Supreme Head of the Church of England.

Henry III laid the foundation stone of a new Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey (later replaced by Henry VII's chapel) on 16 May 1220, thus beginning the new abbey-church which was completed in 1245.

George III survived two assassination attempts in one day on 15 May 1800, the second coming from James Hadfield, who fired a shot at the King during a performance at the Drury Lane Theatre in London. Hadfield was later acquitted by reason of insanity.

Mary Queen of Scots married James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell, at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh on 15 May 1567, just three months after the assassination of her husband, Lord Darnley. Bothwell was widely thought to have been implicated in Darnley's death, and the marriage was very unpopular.

Anne Boleyn went on trial on 15 May 1536, accused (on trumped-up charges) of incest with her brother George, adultery with several other men, and an assassination plot against her husband, Henry VIII. She was found guilty by a specially selected jury and executed four days later.

Battle of Lewes: Henry III was captured on 14 May 1264 and forced to sign the Mise of Lewes, making Simon de Montfort the de facto ruler of England.

Henry VIII's marriage to Anne Boleyn was annulled on 14 May 1536 after she was convicted on trumped-up charges of adultery and treason.

Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, son of Queen Victoria's youngest son Leopold, and Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale, great-grandson of George III, were removed as Garter Knights on 13 May 1915 because they were fighting for Germany in World War I.

Diarist Samuel Pepys witnessed the removal of the Irish Harp from the Union Flag on 13 May 1660, on the Restoration of Charles II. The cross of St Patrick was not added to the flag until the Act of Union created the United Kingdom in 1801.