APRIL 18:  THE REFORMATION IN ENGLAND

Henry VIII:

His wives:

#1:  Catherine of Aragon.  Divorced 1533.

#2:  Anne Boleyn.  Executed 1536.

#3:  Jane Seymour.  Died 1537.

#4:  Anne of Cleves.  Henry married her, sight unseen, on the basis of this portrait.  Divorced 1540.

#5:  Catherine Howard.  Executed 1542.

#6:  Catherine Parr.  Survived.

"Bloody Mary"

How she got the name:

Execution of Thomas Cranmer, 1556.  He renounces the confession he had previously been forced to sign, by thrusting his right hand into the flames:

...an event commemorated in John Foxe's Book of the Martyrs:

Queen Elizabeth:

Treasonable Popish Conspiracies Everywhere:  Guy Fawkes and the "Gunpowder Plot" of 1605

Puritan Revolutionaries:  "Lord Protector" Oliver Cromwell