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11 April 1554
Sir Thomas Wyatt beheaded
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Sir Thomas Wyatt is executed after his rebellion
against Mary I fails. In January 1554,
as the nation hears rumours of Mary's impending marriage to Philip II
of Spain, she becomes unpopular amid fear of foreign domination. Wyatt
leads 3,000 Kentish rebels to London, but fails to get past the City walls,
and the rebels are dispersed. Letters from Wyatt to the 21-year-old Princess
Elizabeth, Mary's half-sister, are discovered,
and she is held in the Tower of London for two months.
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