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On 10 July 1553, Lady Jane Grey was proclaimed Queen of England. She was sixteen, Protestant, and a pawn in a plot to keep Mary Tudor off the throne. Nine days later the Privy Council abandoned her. Within a year she was dead.
On 19 May 1536, Anne Boleyn was beheaded on Tower Green for crimes everyone knew she had not committed. The execution cleared a path for Jane Seymour, but the real inheritance was a bastard daughter who would rule England for forty-five years.
On 15 May 1532, the Convocation of Canterbury surrendered the Church of England's right to make its own laws without royal approval. Thomas More resigned the next day. The monasteries followed four years later. Henry VIII had decided he wanted the other half.