[1]Tomorrow:
November 29
1530: Cardinal Thomas Wolsey d., Adviser to England's King Henry VIII.
Cardinal and statesman who dominated the government of England's King
Henry VIII from 1515 to 1529. His unpopularity contributed, upon his
downfall, to the anticlerical reaction that was a factor in the
English Reformation. The immediate cause of Wolsey's fall from power
was his failure to persuade Pope Clement VII to grant Henry an
annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. There had long been
a party of nobles who hated the lowborn, overbearing cardinal. When
his final attempt to obtain the annulment collapsed in July 1529,
these enemies easily turned the king against him. In October Wolsey
was indicted on a praemunire charge of having overstepped his legatine
authority. Stripped of all his offices and preferments except York, he
left London for York in April 1530. Nevertheless, Henry was led to
believe that he was conspiring to recover his position. Wolsey was
arrested on November 4 on charges of treason (for corresponding with
the French court), but he died at the end of the month while on his
way to face the king.
1808: Edward William Quarterman b. near Midway,
1864: Colorado militia kills 150 peaceful Cheyenne Indians,
1887: US receives rights to Pearl Harbor on Oahu Hawaii,
1916: US declares martial law in Dominican Republic,
1929: American Admiral Richard Byrd & crew flies over South Pole,
1944: Albania liberated from Nazi control (National Day),
References
1. http://www.quarterman.org/q/timeline.html
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