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The Battle of Barnet was a decisive engagement in the Wars of the Roses, a dynastic conflict of 15th-century England. The military action, along with the subsequent Battle of Tewkesbury, secured the throne for Edward IV. On Sunday 14 April 1471, Easter Day, near Barnet, then a small Hertfordshire town north of London, Edward led the House of ...
- 14 April 1471
- Yorkist victory
Aldgate ( / ˈɔːlɡeɪt /) was a gate in the former defensive wall around the City of London. The gate gave its name to Aldgate High Street, the first stretch of the A11 road, that takes that name as it passes through the ancient, extramural Portsoken Ward of the City of London. There is an ancient Aldgate Ward inside the line of the former ...
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Cecily Neville. Signature. Richard III (2 October 1452 – 22 August 1485) was King of England from 26 June 1483 until his death in 1485. He was the last king of the Plantagenet dynasty and its cadet branch the House of York. His defeat and death at the Battle of Bosworth Field marked the end of the Middle Ages in England .
- 26 June 1483 – 22 August 1485
- Cecily Neville
London. 51°30′58″N 0°4′54″W. / 51.51611°N 0.08167°W / 51.51611; -0.08167. Bishopsgate was one of the eastern gates in London's former defensive wall. The gate's name is traditionally attributed to Earconwald, who was Bishop of London in the 7th century. It was first built in Roman times and marked the beginning of Ermine ...
1471 ( MCDLXXI ) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1471st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 471st year of the 2nd millennium, the 71st year of the 15th century, and the 2nd year of the 1470s decade. As of the start of 1471, the Gregorian calendar was 9 days ahead of the Julian ...
1597 or 1216 or 444. — to —. 阴金兔年. (female Iron- Rabbit) 1598 or 1217 or 445. Year 1471 ( MCDLXXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar .
The first known English use of fence in reference to Renaissance swordsmanship is in William Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor, (act i, scene 1), "with playing at sword and dagger with a master of fence," , and later, (act 2, scene 3) "Alas sir, I cannot fence" the term "fencer" is used in Much Ado About Nothing, "blunt as the fencer's foils ...
