History Trivia

On May 19 1535 French explorer Jacques Cartier set sail for North America. In 1536 Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England's King Henry VIII, was beheaded after she was convicted of adultery. In 1568, after being defeated by the Protestants, Mary the Queen of Scots, fled to England where she was imprisoned by Queen Elizabeth and in 1588 the Spanish Armada set sail from Lisbon, bound for England.