{"id":16688,"date":"2022-07-28T10:58:09","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T08:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=212325"},"modified":"2022-07-29T11:31:20","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T09:31:20","slug":"28-july-on-this-day-in-history","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/28-july-on-this-day-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"28 July: On this day in history"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Elinor Evans\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Thursday, 28 July 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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28 July 1540: Henry VIII marries wife number five<\/h3>\n

Wedding bells chime as Thomas Cromwell loses his head<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n

For Thomas Cromwell<\/a>, 28 July 1540 was not a good day. More than a month earlier, he had been dragged from a meeting of Henry VIII<\/a>\u2019s council and thrown into the Tower of London. Accused of treason, the king\u2019s disgraced chief minister begged his old master for mercy, but it was no good. At Tower Hill, he was hauled to the block, where the executioner \u2013 \u201ca ragged and butcherly miser\u201d, said one witness \u2013 wasted little\u00a0time in carving off his head.<\/p>\n

or the young Catherine Howard<\/a>, however, this was a date to remember. Even as Cromwell was being taken to the scaffold, the Duke of Norfolk\u2019s pretty teenage niece was dressing for the most important day of her life. Only a few days earlier, the king had secured an annulment of his marriage to Anne of Cleves<\/a>, and his eye had already fallen on Catherine as her replacement. It was apparently love \u2013 or lust \u2013 at first sight, at least for Henry.<\/p>\n

Did Catherine know that, even as she was repeating her marriage vows at Surrey\u2019s Oatlands Palace, Cromwell\u2019s freshly severed head was rotting on a spike? We will never know. What we do know, though, is that her 49-year-old husband seemed aflame with passion, since reports suggest he could barely keep his hands off her.<\/p>\n

At first, all seemed well, but as month followed month, the relationship began to turn sour. Perhaps, as the king\u2019s attentions waned and her own eye began to wander, Catherine sometimes reflected on the fate of the man who had once been the king\u2019s closest confidant. | Written by Dominic Sandbroook<\/strong><\/p>\n

28 July 1683\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Anne Stuart,<\/a> the second daughter of the future King James II and VII<\/a> and herself a future queen of England, married Prince George of Denmark in the Chapel Royal at St James\u2019s Palace.<\/p>\n

28 July 1790\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

The Forth and Clyde Canal was officially opened. Designed by Yorkshire engineer John Smeaton and running from Bowling on the Clyde to Grangemouth on the Forth, the 35-mile-long waterway took 22 years to complete.<\/p>\n

28 July 1821\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

Jose de San Martin declared Peru\u2019s independence from Spain in Lima. Independence was not, however, ensured until Antonio Jos\u00e9 de Sucr\u00e9\u2019s victory over forces loyal to Spain at the battle of Ayacucho in December 1824.<\/p>\n

28 July 1902\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Philosopher Karl Popper was born in Vienna. The rise of Nazism led him to emigrate to New Zealand in 1937. From 1946 he taught at the LSE. Appointed professor of logic and scientific method at the University of London in 1949, he was knighted in 1965.<\/p>\n

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