On this day in Tudor history, 26th April, Queen Anne Boleyn's chaplain made a promise to the queen; Catherine Carey, daughter of Mary Boleyn, married Francis Knollys; and playwright William Shakespeare was baptised...
- 1536 - Queen Anne Boleyn met with her chaplain, thirty-two-year-old Matthew Parker, and made him promise to do something for her. See video below.
- 1540 – Marriage of Francis Knollys and Catherine Carey, daughter of Mary Boleyn and William Carey, or, as some historians believe, Henry VIII. See video below.
- 1546 – Death of Sir Ralph Ellerker, soldier, in a French ambush while serving as Marshal of Boulogne for Henry VIII. He was buried in St Mary's Church in the town.
- 1564 – Baptism of William Shakespeare at Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon. See video below.
- 1589 – Death of Andrew Perne, Dean of Ely and Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University, at Lambeth while visiting his friend, Archbishop John Whitgift. He was buried at Lambeth Parish Church.
- 1596 – Burial of Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon, at St Helen's Church, Ashby-de-la-Zouch.
