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1422 – Henry V dies and is succeeded by his son, Henry VI. 1471 – Henry VI is murdered and Edward IV is restored to the English throne. 1483 – Death of Edward IV of England, Edward V accedes to the throne. 1485 – The Battle of Bosworth Field on 22 August ends the Yorkist reign of Richard III and ushers in Tudor reign, with the reign of ...
The turning point in the Hundred Years' War for 15th-century England that leads to the signing of the Treaty of Troyes five years later, making Henry V heir to the throne of France. 1417: The Council of Constance ends. The Western Schism comes to a close, and elects Pope Martin V as the sole pope. 1419
t. e. England became inhabited more than 800,000 years ago, as the discovery of stone tools and footprints at Happisburgh in Norfolk have indicated. [1] The earliest evidence for early modern humans in Northwestern Europe, a jawbone discovered in Devon at Kents Cavern in 1927, was re-dated in 2011 to between 41,000 and 44,000 years old. [2]
7th century AH (1203 – 1299) 8th century AH (1299 – 1397) 9th century AH (1397 – 1495) 10th century AH (1495 – 1591) 11th century AH (1591 – 1688) 12th century AH (1688 – 1785) 13th century AH (1785 – 1883) 14th century AH (1883 – 1980) 15th century AH (1980 – 2077) See also. Timeline of science and engineering in the Muslim world
First third 14th century (Winters) [ Researchers suggest that the frequency of 'severe' winters across Britain during the first three decades of this century was unusually high. Also, analysis of agricultural records, estate reports, tax returns etc., also points to frequent wet / cool summers with failures of harvests and impact on survival of ...
The murder of Sir William de Cantilupe, who was born around 1345, by members of his household, took place in Scotton, Lincolnshire, in March 1375. The family was a long-established and influential one in the county; de Cantilupes traditionally provided officials to the Crown both in central government and at the local level.
Creating the county. The counties of Anglo-Saxon England, each one under an earl, a sheriff and a bishop, were laid out in the ninth and 10th centuries from the south-west, so that the territory attached to the county town usually lay rather to the north and north-east. When those who created them came to the land of the Five Boroughs they ...
