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1387
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Born at Monmouth on 16 September.
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1394
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Death of mother.
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1398
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His father, Bolingbroke, is banished.
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1399
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Accompanies Richard II to Ireland.
Bolingbroke deposes Richard II and ascends throne as Henry IV.
Becomes heir to throne and is created Prince of Wales.
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1400
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Richard II is murdered.
Campaigns with father in Scotland.
Owain Glyn Dŵr revolts and proclaims himself Prince of Wales.
Campaigns with father in Wales.
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1402
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He and Hotspur recapture Conwy in spring.
Campaigns with his father in Wales in autumn.
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1403
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Appointed King’s Lieutenant on the Marches of Wales.
Campaigns in Wales in spring, burning Owain’s houses.
Wounded in battle of Shrewsbury against Hotspur on 21 July.
Campaigns in Wales in autumn.
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1405
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Plot to place Earl of March on throne.
Archbishop Scrope’s rising is crushed.
Franco-Welsh army invades England.
Campaigns in Wales in autumn.
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1406
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Appointed Lieutenant of Wales.
Campaigns in Wales in summer.
Besieges Aberystwyth.
Campaigns with father in Scotland in autumn.
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1408
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Earl of Northumberland defeated and killed at Bramham Moor.
Aberystwyth surrenders.
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1409
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Harlech surrenders.
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1410
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Becomes head of the King’s Council during father’s illness.
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1411
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Father recovers and dismisses him from the Council.
English expedition to France to help Burgundians.
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1412
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English expedition to France to help Armagnacs.
Suspected of plotting to depose his father.
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1413
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Henry IV dies in March and he becomes king.
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1414
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Lollard rising crushed in London.
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1415
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Southampton Plot to murder him and place March on throne.
Invades Normandy in August.
Harfleur surrenders to him in September.
Defeats French at Agincourt on 25 October.
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1416
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Emperor Sigismund visits Henry in England.
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1417
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Invades Normandy in August.
Takes Caen by storm in September.
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1418
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Captures Falaise in February.
Commences siege of Rouen in July.
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1419
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Rouen surrenders in January – English overrun all Normandy.
Negotiations with Duke of Burgundy and French queen in June.
Captures Pontoise in July.
Duke John of Burgundy murdered by Armagnacs in September.
Alliance between England and Burgundy in December.
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1420
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Treaty of Troyes with Charles VI and Philip of Burgundy – recognised as ‘Heir and Regent of France’.
Marries Charles VI’s daughter, Catherine of Valois, in June.
Occupies Paris, installing English garrison.
Besieges Melun from July till its fall in November.
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1421
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Spends January in Normandy.
Returns to England with Catherine in February.
Duke of Clarence defeated and killed by French at Baugé.
Returns to France in June and relieves English at Paris.
Commences siege of Meaux in August.
Birth of his son, the future Henry VI.
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1422
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Continues siege of Meaux which surrenders in May.
Falls seriously ill in June.
Dies at Vincennes on 31 August.
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