THE FALL OF ANNE BOLEYN January 29, 1536 - Anne is "miscarried of her savior" on the day of Catherine of Aragon's funeral at Peterborough Cathedral, the last straw for Henry VIII. March 3, 1536 - Sir Edward Seymour (the future Duke of Somerset), is created Gentleman of the Privy Chamber, a huge red glaring neon sign of the favor the family were in with Henry due to his obsession with Jane Seymour. April 23, 1536 - St George's Day and annual meeting of the Order of the Garter, to which it had been expected George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford, would be invited to join, but instead was roundly snubbed by Henry, taken as a sign that the Boleyns were losing favor. April 24, 1536 - Thomas Cromwell and Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, were deputized to investigate "unspecified cases of treason" by Lord Chancellor Audley. April 30, 1536 - Cromwell shows Henry his evidence that Anne had committed adultery with musician Mark Smeaton and some Privy Gentlemen and plotted regicide. Anne makes the infamous "you look for dead men's shoes" remark to Sir Henry Norreys that was later used at her trial. Mark Smeaton is lured to Cromwell's house, arrested, and tortured into a confession of adultery with the queen. Henry informs Anne he is "postponing" their May 2nd visit to Calais. May 1, 1536 - The May Day jousts at Greenwich held. Henry leaves before the end of the tournament, something unheard of, after Cromwell informs him there is evidence of Norreys swiving the queen. Norreys is summoned to Henry at York Place, denies the allegations, and is immediately sent to the Tower of London. May 2, 1536 - While watching a game of tennis, Anne is arrested in full view of the Court and conducted by barge to the Tower, where she is lodged in the apartments she occupied at her coronation less than three years earlier. George is charged with committing incest with the queen and also sent to the Tower. May 3, 1536 - Henry tells his bastard son, Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond, that he and his sister Mary had "escaped the accursed whore, who had determined to poison you". May 4, 1536 - Sir Francis Weston is arrested for committing adultery with the queen and sent to the Tower. May 5, 1536 - Sir William Brereton is arrested for committing adultery with the queen and sent to the Tower. May 8, 1536 - Sir Thomas Wyatt and Sir Richard Page are sent to the Tower. May 12, 1536 - Norreys, Weston, Brereton, and Smeaton are arraigned and tried at Westminster Hall, and condemned to death. May 15, 1536 - Anne is arraigned and tried in the King's Hall at the Tower, and condemned to death, "to be burnt or beheaded, at the king's pleasure". George is arraigned and tried in the King's Hall at the Tower, and condemned to death after allegedly revealing that Anne had told him Henry had become impotent. Henry and Jane dine at Hampton Court and celebrate the outcome of Anne's trial. Anne is moved to a pair of rooms in the Queen's House, then known as the Lieutenant's Lodgings, overlooking Tower Green, where she could see the scaffolding being built for the executions. May 17, 1536 - Anne's alleged paramours are executed on Tower Hill, all but Smeaton professing their innocence to the end. Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, pronounces Anne and Henry's marriage null and void, and declares Elizabeth to be a bastard. May 18, 1536 - Cranmer issues Henry a dispensation to wed a person to whom he was related in the third degree of affinity (meaning either Henry or Jane or both had swived each other's cousins?). Anne's scheduled execution is postponed a day due to the delay in arrival of the French swordsman delegated to perform the execution. May 19, 1536 - Anne is led out on Tower Green to the scaffold at 9am and executed, her last words being: "Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore I will speak nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to speak anything of that, whereof I am accused and condemned to die, but I pray God save the king and send him long to reign over you, for a gentler nor a more merciful prince was there never: and to me he was ever a good, a gentle and sovereign lord. And if any person will meddle of my cause, I require them to judge the best. And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me. O Lord have mercy on me, to God I commend my soul." Thomas Boleyn, Earl of Wiltshire, is deprived of his office of Lord Privy Seal and of his Ormond lands in Ireland, but is permitted to remain at Court. Jane, Viscountess Rochford, retires from Court, having been dispossed of her late husband's properties, and denied her widow's jointure (until after Wiltshire's death). May 20, 1536 - Jane Seymour is brought by barge to Hampton Court for a formal betrothal ceremony with Henry. Wyatt and Page are released fron the Tower and retire from Court. May 21, 1536 - Henry makes the gesture of wearing white mourning to Ascension Sunday Mass. May 30, 1536 - Henry and Jane are married quietly in the queen's closet at Whitehall Palace. June 4, 1536 - Jane is proclaimed Queen of England at Greenwich, & her motto is "Bound to obey and serve". Edward Seymour is created Viscount Beauchamp of Hache, & appointed Governor of Jersey &and Chancellor of North Wales.