Key Dates Richard III Flashcards
When did the Royal Council take control of the Government after Edward IV’s death?
10th - 11th April 1483.
When did Edward V and Earl Rivers hear of Edward IV’s death?
14th April 1483.
When was Edward IV interred at Windsor?
20th April 1483.
When did Gloucester set off from York?
23rd April 1483.
When did Edward V and Earl Rivers set off from Ludlow?
24th April 1483.
When did Gloucester meet with Edward V, Earl Rivers, Thomas Vaughn and Richard Grey at Stony Stratford?
29th April 1483.
When were Earl Rivers, Thomas Vaughn and Richard Grey arrested?
30th April 1483.
When was Edward V housed in the Bishop of London’s Palace?
4th May 1483.
When did Elizabeth Woodville go to Westminster for sanctuary?
4th May 1483.
When was Gloucester appointed as Protector?
10th May 1483.
When was Edward V moved to the Tower of London?
By 19th May 1483.
When did Gloucester write to York and Hull asking for military support?
10th - 11th June 1483.
When was Hastings arrested and executed without trial?
13th June 1483.
When was Richard Duke of York placed in the Tower of London?
16th June 1483.
When was Edward V’s coronation delayed until?
November 1483.
When was the bastardy of the Princes preached at St Paul’s Cross?
22nd June 1483.
When did Buckingham urge Gloucester’s claim to the throne?
24th June 1483.
When were Earl Rivers, Thomas Vaughn and Richard Grey executed?
24th June 1483.
When was the end of Edward V’s reign?
25th June 1483.
When was Gloucester offered the position of King and accepted it?
26th June 1483.
When was the coronation of Richard III?
6th July 1483.
When did Richard set out on his progress?
Mid-July 1483.
When did Richard make a treaty of friendship with Isabella of Castille?
July 1483.
When was the ceremony of investiture for Edward Earl of Wales in York?
July 1483.
When was the first oyer and terminer created?
29th July 1483.
When were the Princes in the Tower never seen again?
After July 1483.
When was an embassy sent to Brittany to organise Henry Tudor’s return to England?
July 1483.
When did Richard III take the lands of John Welles causing him to flee to exile?
13th August 1483.
When was the second oyer and terminer created?
29th August 1483.
When did the Royal Family seperate?
Mid-September 1483.
When was Buckingham’s Rebellion?
October 1483.
When did Margaret Beaufort and Elizabeth Woodville agree that Elizabeth of York would marry Henry Tudor?
Late 1483.
When was Richard III’s Parliament?
23rd January 1484.
When was the death of Anne Neville?
April 1484.
When was the death of Edward Prince of Wales?
16th March 1485.
When did Richard III name John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln as his sucessor?
16th March 1485.
When did Henry Tudor leave Brittany?
1st August 1485.
When did Henry Tudor’s invasion force land at Millford Haven?
7th August 1485.
When did Henry Tudor’s invasion force enter England?
15th August 1485.
When was the Battle of Bosworth?
22nd August 1485.
When was the death of Richard III?
22nd August 1485.
