Anne Boleyn Beheaded
May 19, 1536
Fewer than three years after her coronation, Anne Boleyn was executed within the Tower of London on charges of adultery and treason that few historians now believe. A French swordsman, imported for the occasion, took her head off cleanly. Henry VIII was betrothed to Jane Seymour the next morning. The charges of adultery with five men were almost certainly fabricated by Cromwell to clear the way for Jane Seymour.
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Era
Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.
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