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1582 or 1201 or 429. Year 1455 ( MCDLV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (full) of the Julian calendar .
The Wars of the Roses (1455–1487), known at the time, and for more than a century after, as the Civil Wars, were a series of civil wars fought over control of the English throne in the mid-to-late fifteenth century. These wars were fought between supporters of two rival cadet branches of the royal House of Plantagenet: Lancaster and York.
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Monarch – Henry VILord Chancellor – Thomas BourchierLord Privy Seal – Thomas LisieuxMay – The garrison of English Calaismutinies over pay arrears.22 May – Richard, Duke of York defeats the army of Henry VI at the First Battle of St Albans. Henry is captured, marking the beginning of the Wars of the Roses.23 October – Bonville–Courtenay feud in Devon: Thomas Courtenay, heir to the Earl of Devon, arranges the murder of lawyer Nicholas Radford.19 November – The Duke of York is reinstated as Lord Protector, acting as regent for the King.Marquess of Dorset, nobleman and courtier (died 1501)John Spencer, landowner (died 1522)John Scrope, 4th Baron Scrope of Masham, politician (born 1388)Thomas de Strickland, soldier (born 1367)At the First Battle of St Albans (22 May)May 22 – Wars of the Roses: First Battle of St Albans – Richard, Duke of York and his ally, Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick defeat the Lancastrians under Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, who is killed. York captures King Henry VI of England and has himself appointed Constable of England.
The Ottoman cadastral tax census ( defter) of 1455 in the District of Branković (defter Vuk-ili) is one of the oldest Ottoman tax registers in the Balkans. At the time of the defter, the District of Branković included parts of central Serbia (present-day Toplica District and the historical Raška Region ), part of northeastern Montenegro and ...
This category has the following 8 subcategories, out of 8 total. 1455 by country (5 C, 3 P)
1455– 1485 – v Anglii probíhá válka růží. v celém Slezsku vypovězení a masové vraždy Židů spojené s násilným odebíráním dětí rodičům. 23. února – Johann Gutenberg zahájil tisk bible.
