1649 - King Charles I was beheaded. On the day after the execution, the King's head was sewn back onto his body, which was then embalmed and placed in a lead coffin. The Parliamentarians refused to allow the King's burial at Westminster Abbey, so his body was conveyed to Windsor. He was buried in private in the Henry VIII vault alongside the coffins of Henry VIII and Henry's third wife, Jane Seymour, in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, February 1649.