For most of London's largest parks we have, somewhat surprisingly, King Henry VIII to thank.
In 1540, Thomas Cromwell, principal adviser to King Henry VIII of England, was executed for treason.
In 1547, King Henry VIII of England died and was succeeded by his son, Edward VI.
In 1540, England's King Henry the Eighth had his six-month marriage to his fourth wife, Ann, annulled.
Cardinal Wolsey, who was Archbishop of York and Lord Chancellor, became hugely powerful under King Henry VIII.
Trying to preserve her youth, Diane de Poitiers, mistress of French King Henry II, died from drinking gold.
King Henry VIII watched from Southsea Castle as his ship sank killing all but 35 of the 500-strong crew.
The future Edward IV, leading a Yorkist army, routed the Lancastrians, captured King Henry VI and seized the throne.
In 1189, King Henry II of England, the first of the Plantagenets, died and was succeeded by Richard I.
The Guild has been held every 20 years since King Henry II granted Preston market town status in 1179.
He was knighted on the battlefield by the new King Henry VII and awarded titles in Brecknock, Carmarthen and Cardigan.
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In 1460, in the Wars of the Roses, Richard of York defeated King Henry VI at the battle of Northampton.
The version that became part of the first English statute in 1297 was the one signed by King Henry III in 1225.
You make the comparison to the mistress of French King Henry II.
In 1170, Thomas a Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, was murdered by four knights acting on the orders of England's King Henry II.
Bring Up the Bodies, which will continue the story of King Henry VIII's chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, will be published in May 2012.
Rohid was one of sixteen candidates selected for a four-day interview at the elite public school, which was founded by King Henry VI in 1440.
Skeletons recovered from the wreck of a King Henry VIII's warship the Mary Rose are being studied to discover more about life in the 1500s.
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The final leg will run from Hampton Court Palace, the former home of King Henry VIII, before arriving at the opening ceremony on July 27.
The location of Reading Abbey, which was founded by King Henry I in 1121, was chosen because of its proximity to the Thames and the Kennet.
The letter from King Henry is dated 1543 and is a call to arms to landlords to recruit troops from their tenants to go into battle against the Scots.
In 1534, England's Parliament met and passed an Act of Supremacy which made King Henry VIII head of the English church -- a role formerly held by the Pope.
It stands close to the site where 200 Welshmen, led by the king of north Wales Owain Gwynedd, ambushed - and nearly killed - King Henry II in 1157.
The Preston Guild dates back to 1179 when King Henry II granted the town the right to have a Guild Merchant and gave the town its first royal charter.
Wolf Hall followed the life of Thomas Cromwell from his impoverished beginnings as the son of a violent blacksmith, to his meteoric rise in the court of King Henry VIII.
Sutton House was built in 1535, when King Henry VIII ruled over England and this part of London -- now busy with cars and tower blocks -- was set against miles of open grassland.
The entity, initially criticized by some as an attempt to poach faithful from a rival Christian church, aims to bridge divisions between Roman Catholicism and the Church of England dating to the reign of King Henry VIII.
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Highlights include a 16th Century signet ring of Johann Ernst von Sachsen, Julich, Kleve and Berg the great grandson of Sibylle von Julich, Kleve and Berg, sister of Anne of Kleve (Cleves) (1515-1554) wife of Henry VIII, King England(1491-1547), illustrated above left.
But as it was in the days of the courts of King Henry VIII, executives are going to depend ever more on trusted human agents, dispatched to the far corners of kingdoms to carry sensitive messages, learn sensitive information, negotiate and close deals.
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