July 6, 1535: Sir Thomas More was executed at Tower Hill for treason after refusing to recognize Henry VIII as the Supreme Head of the Church.  

July 12, 1543: Henry VIII married his sixth and final wife, Katherine Parr, at Hampton Court Palace.

Death, from natural causes, of Anne of Cleves, fourth wife of Henry VIII.

King Henry VIII looks on as his newly refitted flagship the Mary Rose sinks in the Solent, off England’s south coast, with the loss of 700 lives.

Mary Queen of Scots abdicates after defeat by the Protestants at Carberry Hill, near Musselburgh, East Lothian.

Henry VIII's chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, was beheaded on Tower Hill.