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c. 1420 |
birth of John Morton |
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c. 1430 |
birth of William Hastings |
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1443 |
May |
birth of Margaret Beaufort |
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1447 |
birth of John de Vere, future Earl of Oxford |
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1450 |
May |
murder of the Duke of Suffolk |
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June–July |
Jack Cade occupies London birth of Jane Shore (christened Elizabeth Lambert) |
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1452 |
rebellion by the Duke of York |
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1453 |
August |
Henry VI goes insane |
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October |
birth of Henry VI’s son, Edward of Lancaster |
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1454 |
April |
Duke of York appointed Lord Protector of England |
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Christmas |
Henry VI regains his sanity |
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1455 |
February |
Duke of York ceases to be Protector |
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May |
first Battle of St Albans won by Duke of York |
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November |
Duke of York appointed Protector again |
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1456 |
February |
end of York’s second protectorate |
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1458 |
March |
‘loveday’ at St Paul’s |
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November |
attempt to murder the Earl of Warwick |
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1459 |
September |
inconclusive Battle of Blore Heath |
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October |
rout of Ludford: the Duke of York and the Earls of March, Salisbury and Warwick flee from England |
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November |
Parliament of Devils outlaws the Yorkists |
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1460 |
June |
Yorkist leaders land in Kent |
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July |
Yorkist victory at Northampton |
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October |
Parliament recognizes York as heir to the throne |
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December |
York defeated and killed at Wakefield |
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1461 |
February |
Yorkist victory at Mortimer’s Cross Lancastrian victory at second battle of St Albans |
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March |
Edward IV proclaimed King in London |
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Yorkist victory at Towton |
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1462 |
execution of the Earl of Oxford and his son |
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Margaret of Anjou lands in Northumberland |
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December |
Lancastrian garrisons surrender in Northumberland |
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1464 |
the Duke of Somerset rebels against Edward IV |
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May |
Edward IV marries Elizabeth Woodville in secret |
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defeat of last Lancastrian army at Hexham |
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1465 |
July |
capture of Henry VI in Lancashire |
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1468 |
Lancastrian plots – arrest of Earl of Oxford |
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1469 |
June |
Robin of Redesdale rebels |
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July |
the Duke of Clarence marries Warwick’s daughter Yorkist defeat at Edgecote |
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August |
Edward IV confined at Middleham |
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September |
Edward IV regains his freedom |
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1470 |
March |
Sir Robert Welles’s rising in Lincolnshire rebels defeated by Edward IV at Losecote Field |
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April |
Warwick and Clarence flee to France |
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July |
Margaret of Anjou and Warwick are reconciled |
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September |
Warwick invades the West Country Edward IV flees to Burgundy |
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1471 |
March |
Edward IV lands in Yorkshire |
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April |
Yorkist victory at Barnet – death of Warwick |
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May |
Yorkist victory at Tewkesbury the Bastard of Fauconberg besieges London murder of Henry VI |
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1473 |
September |
the Earl of Oxford occupies St Michael’s Mount |
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1474 |
February |
the Earl of Oxford surrenders |
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1475 |
July |
Edward IV invades France |
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August |
Edward IV makes peace with Louis XI at Picquigny |
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1478 |
February |
death of the Duke of Clarence |
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1483 |
April |
death of Edward IV Richard, Duke of Gloucester’s first coup |
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June |
Gloucester’s second coup – death of Lord Hastings |
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Gloucester proclaimed King coronation of Richard III |
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July? |
murder of Edward V and the Duke of York |
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October |
the Duke of Buckingham’s rebellion |
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1485 |
August |
Henry Tudor lands at Milford Haven defeat and death of Richard III at Bosworth |
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1487 |
June |
defeat of the last Yorkist army at Stoke |
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1489 |
April |
rebellion in Yorkshire |
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December |
the Abbot of Abingdon’s conspiracy |
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1491 |
autumn |
Perkin Warbeck starts career as ‘Richard IV’ |
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1492 |
spring |
Warbeck received in France by Charles VIII |
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November |
Warbeck received in Burgundy by Margaret of York |
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1493 |
November |
Warbeck received in Austria by Maximilian I |
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1495 |
February |
Sir William Stanley executed for conspiracy |
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July |
Warbeck lands in Kent and Waterford |
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November |
Warbeck received in Scotland by James IV |
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1496 |
September |
Warbeck and the Scots invade Northumberland |
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1497 |
June |
Cornish rebellion and Battle of Blackheath |
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September |
Warbeck lands in Cornwall to start a rising |
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October |
Warbeck surrenders in return for a pardon |
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1499 |
March |
Ralph Wulford’s ‘conspiracy’ |
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November |
Warbeck and the Earl of Warwick executed |
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1500 |
September |
death of Cardinal Morton |
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1509 |
April |
death of King Henry VII |
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June |
death of Lady Margaret Beaufort |
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1513 |
March |
death of the Earl of Oxford |
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1527? |
death of Jane Shore |