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- Difficulties and calamities, including a great famine and the Black Death, which reduced the population by 50 per cent, introduced the Late Middle Ages in the 14th century. Conflicts between ethnic and social groups intensified, and local conflicts often escalated into full-scale warfare, such as the Hundred Years' War.
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May 26, 2024 · The 14th century saw England face an unprecedented onslaught of invasions, raids, and attacks by the French and their allies. The epic scale and destruction of these incursions is too often left out of popular accounts of English history.
4 days ago · The English Reformation took place in 16th-century England when the Church of England was forced by its monarchs and elites to break away from the authority of the pope and the Catholic Church.
May 26, 2024 · The 14th century was a time of unparalleled hardship and suffering, with the Great Famine, the Black Death, the Hundred Years‘ War, and widespread political instability claiming countless lives and transforming European society.
2 days ago · The Wars of the Roses pitted two branches of the House of Plantagenet against one another, the House of York and the House of Lancaster. The Lancastrian Henry Tudor ended the War of the Roses and established the Tudor dynasty in 1485. Under the Tudors and the later Stuart dynasty, England became a colonial power.
May 26, 2024 · During the 14th century, Oxford mirrored the rest of English society in many ways. Political instability wracked the realm as England waged the Hundred Years‘ War in France, battled Scotland and Wales closer to home, and saw the overthrow and murder of King Edward II.
May 15, 2024 · Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII of England and mother of Queen Elizabeth I. The events surrounding the annulment of Henry’s marriage to his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, and his marriage to Anne led him to break with the Roman Catholic Church and brought about the English Reformation.
May 9, 2024 · The English Civil Wars occurred from 1642 through 1651. The fighting during this period is traditionally broken into three wars: the first happened from 1642 to 1646, the second in 1648, and the third from 1650 to 1651.
