In early summer 1528, an outbreak of 'sweating sickness', the unknown Tudor illness, spread throughout the city of London and subsequently the Royal Court. The three-month long epidemic saw 40,000 London residents become infected with this highly-contagious disease, over 80 percent of the city's population, with 2000 deaths that summer being attributed to 'the sweat'.

Henry Carey was the second child of Mary Boleyn, the eldest daughter of Thomas Boleyn, born in March 1526.

Henry Carey, later appointed 1st Baron of Hunsdon, son of Mary Boleyn and her first husband William Carey, was born on this day, 04 March, in 1526.

On This Day (04 February) in 1520, Mary Boleyn married William Carey in the Chapel Royal at Greenwich Palace, with Henry VIII in attendance.