The film begins in 1536 when Henry VIII ( Richard Burton ) considers whether or not he should sign the warrant for the execution of his second wife, Anne Boleyn: then, in a long flashback which takes up virtually the entire film, the whole truth is revealed.

The exact date of his new baptism is unknown, but he was probably baptized not long after leaving Witmarsum in early 1536.

Very characteristic of the age are the autobiography of the Valais scholar Thomas Platter ( 1499 – 1582 ) and the diary of his still more distinguished son Felix ( 1536 – 1614 ), both written in German, though not published till long after.

* Arauco War ( 1536 – 1881 ), another example of a very long war

In 1536 he was convicted of heresy and executed by strangulation, after which his body was burnt at the stake.

In 1536, Henry's older brother, Francis, caught a chill after a game of tennis, contracted a fever, and died, leaving Henry the heir.

It fell into ruin after the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1536, but was rebuilt as a parish church in 1737, and then completely rebuilt again in 1882.

In July 1536, the first attempt was made to clarify religious doctrine after the break with Rome.

Henry married Jane 11 days after Anne's execution in May 1536, and she gave birth to their son and only child — the future Edward VI — in October of the following year.

When his elder brother, Francis, died in 1536 after a game of tennis, Henry became heir apparent to the throne.

Kimbolton Castle is reported to be haunted by Catherine of Aragon who died there in 1536 after several years of imprisonment.

Count Christopher's forces held out in Malmø and Copenhagen until July 1536 when they surrendered after several months of siege by Christian II's forces.

The Church of Norway ( Den norske kirke in Bokmål or Den norske kyrkja in Nynorsk ) is the national church and the largest church in Norway, established after the Lutheran reformation in Denmark – Norway in 1536 – 1537 broke ties with the Holy See.

It was reduced in size after Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1536.

The northern aisle of the convent church was added in the 13th century for the use of the town's residents, and, after the Dissolution of the nunnery in 1536, the nave was also incorporated as part of the parish church.

Anne and George were arrested on 2 May 1536 the day after the May Day joust at which George was one of the principal jousters.

The work was well received at the time, both in Europe and in Scotland, after its translation from Latin into French and then in 1536 from Latin into Scots by John Bellenden ( which is the oldest book of prose written in Scots to survive into modern times ).

In 1536 Montelupo also created a marble statue of Saint Michael holding his sword after the 590 plague ( as described above ) to surmount the Castel.

Moving northward into present day Colombia in search of El Dorado in 1535, he entered the Cauca River Valley, founding the southwestern Colombian cities of Santiago de Cali in 1536, and Pasto and Popayán ( next in importance after Quito ) in 1537.

It is thought that after the Dissolution of the Monasteries in England by Henry VIII between 1536 and 1541, the book passed to collectors.

In 1536 the poet Sir David Lyndsay composed a ribald 60 line flyte to James V after the King demanded a response to a flyte.

After obstinate resistance, the city was taken by the besiegers on June 24, 1535, and in January 1536 Bockelson and some of his more prominent followers, after being tortured, were executed in the marketplace.

Shortly after, in June 1536, the St Saviour ’ s Abbey of Bermondsey was induced to ' grant ' its land to the king, part of the Dissolution process, hence he now owned all of the Abbey ’ s manor west of the high street.

The Russians recaptured it in 1536, but it was restored to Lithuania after the Time of Troubles.

This only became an issue after Alvarado declared he had conquered and pacified the province of Honduras in 1536.

A small harbor is first mentioned in 1536 and shortly there after, regular boat service to Geneva began.

The abbey was closed in 1536, shortly after the Dissolution of the Monasteries, and was once more taken over by the Crown.

* December 16 – Catherine of Aragon, First Queen of Henry VIII of England and daughter of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile ( d. 1536 )

He was given the authority to do this in England and Wales by the Act of Supremacy, passed by Parliament in 1534, which made him Supreme Head of the Church in England, thus separating England from Papal authority ; and by the First Suppression Act ( 1536 ) and the Second Suppression Act ( 1539 ).

* First Helvetic Confession ( 1536 )

Two years later, he had an active hand in the so-called First Helvetic Confession ( the work of Swiss divines at Basel in January 1536 ); also in the conferences which urged the Swiss acceptance of the Wittenberg Concord ( 1536 ).

The First Helvetic Confession (), known also as the Second Confession of Basel, was drawn up at that city in 1536 by Heinrich Bullinger and Leo Jud of Zürich, Kaspar Megander of Bern, Oswald Myconius and Simon Grynaeus of Basel, Martin Bucer and Wolfgang Capito of Strasbourg, with other representatives from Schaffhausen, St Gall, Mülhausen and Biel.

The Dissolution of the Monasteries, sometimes referred to as the Suppression of the Monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541 by which Henry VIII disbanded monasteries, priories, convents and friaries in England, Wales and Ireland ; appropriated their income, disposed of their assets, and provided for their former members and functions.

Accordingly Parliament enacted the Dissolution of the Lesser Monasteries Act in early 1536, relying in large part on the reports of " impropriety " Cromwell had received, establishing the power of the King to dissolve religious houses that were failing to maintain a religious life ; and consequently providing for the King to compulsorily dissolve monasteries with annual incomes declared in the Valor Ecclesiasticus of less than £ 200 ( of which there were potentially 419 ); but also giving the King the discretion to exempt any of these houses from dissolution at his pleasure.

Both Howard and Lady Margaret were committed to the Tower, and on 18 July 1536 an Act of Attainder accusing Lord Howard of attempting to ' interrupt ympedyte and lett the seid Succession of the Crowne ' was passed in both houses of Parliament.

The first Act of Supremacy confirmed Henry by statute as the Supreme Head of the Church of England in 1536.

* Second Succession Act ( Succession to the Crown: Marriage Act 1536 )

Though King Henry VIII's commissioners declared the famous relic to be nothing but the blood of a duck, regularly renewed, and though the Abbot Stephen Sagar admitted that the Holy Blood was a fake in hope of saving the Abbey, Hailes Abbey was one of the last religious institutions to acquiesce following the Dissolution Act of 1536.

Following the Dissolution of the Lesser Monasteries Act of 1536, these houses gave in to King Henry VIII in 1538 without a fight, surrendering " of their own free will ".

The Dissolution of the Lesser Monasteries Act of 1536, on the orders of Henry VIII, resulted in St Mary's Abbey being dissolved and its buildings demolished in 1537.

An Act of Parliament passed in 1533 declared Mary illegitimate ; another passed in 1536 did the same for Elizabeth.

Under the Suffragan Bishops Act 1534, the title Bishop of Ipswich was created in 1536, but it fell into abeyance following the first holder surrendering the office in 1538.

The " hanging Bishop " was said to be disappointed and incensed when the first Act of Union was enacted in 1536, as he believed the Welsh could not be trusted as part of England.

The last recorded case to be heard under Welsh law was a case concerning land in Carmarthenshire in 1540, four years after the 1536 Act had stipulated that only English law was to be used in Wales.

Next in line after the king's children was his sister Margaret Tudor, and her children, but their place in the succession was not secure-Henry would later exclude them by the Second Succession Act ( 1536 ), and by his will.

Brinkburn Priory was dissolved in 1536 after Parliament enacted the Dissolution of the Lesser Monasteries Act.

Tidenham, Beachley and Woolaston were added to Gloucestershire by the first Act of Union of England and Wales in 1536 ; previously they had been part of the Marcher lordship of Striguil.

* Second Succession Act ( Succession to the Crown: Marriage Act 1536 )