Key Dates Richard III

Question 1

When did the Royal Council take control of the Government after Edward IV’s death?

Answer 1

10th - 11th April 1483.

Question 2

When did Edward V and Earl Rivers hear of Edward IV’s death?

Answer 2

14th April 1483.

Question 3

When was Edward IV interred at Windsor?

Answer 3

20th April 1483.

Question 4

When did Gloucester set off from York?

Answer 4

23rd April 1483.

Question 5

When did Edward V and Earl Rivers set off from Ludlow?

Answer 5

24th April 1483.

Question 6

When did Gloucester meet with Edward V, Earl Rivers, Thomas Vaughn and Richard Grey at Stony Stratford?

Answer 6

29th April 1483.

Question 7

When were Earl Rivers, Thomas Vaughn and Richard Grey arrested?

Answer 7

30th April 1483.

Question 8

When was Edward V housed in the Bishop of London’s Palace?

Answer 8

4th May 1483.

Question 9

When did Elizabeth Woodville go to Westminster for sanctuary?

Answer 9

4th May 1483.

Question 10

When was Gloucester appointed as Protector?

Answer 10

10th May 1483.

Question 11

When was Edward V moved to the Tower of London?

Answer 11

By 19th May 1483.

Question 12

When did Gloucester write to York and Hull asking for military support?

Answer 12

10th - 11th June 1483.

Question 13

When was Hastings arrested and executed without trial?

Answer 13

13th June 1483.

Question 14

When was Richard Duke of York placed in the Tower of London?

Answer 14

16th June 1483.

Question 15

When was Edward V’s coronation delayed until?

Answer 15

November 1483.

Question 16

When was the bastardy of the Princes preached at St Paul’s Cross?

Answer 16

22nd June 1483.

Question 17

When did Buckingham urge Gloucester’s claim to the throne?

Answer 17

24th June 1483.

Question 18

When were Earl Rivers, Thomas Vaughn and Richard Grey executed?

Answer 18

24th June 1483.

Question 19

When was the end of Edward V’s reign?

Answer 19

25th June 1483.

Question 20

When was Gloucester offered the position of King and accepted it?

Answer 20

26th June 1483.

Question 21

When was the coronation of Richard III?

Answer 21

6th July 1483.

Question 22

When did Richard set out on his progress?

Answer 22

Mid-July 1483.

Question 23

When did Richard make a treaty of friendship with Isabella of Castille?

Answer 23

July 1483.

Question 24

When was the ceremony of investiture for Edward Earl of Wales in York?

Answer 24

July 1483.

Question 25

When was the first oyer and terminer created?

Answer 25

29th July 1483.

Question 26

When were the Princes in the Tower never seen again?

Answer 26

After July 1483.

Question 27

When was an embassy sent to Brittany to organise Henry Tudor’s return to England?

Answer 27

July 1483.

Question 28

When did Richard III take the lands of John Welles causing him to flee to exile?

Answer 28

13th August 1483.

Question 29

When was the second oyer and terminer created?

Answer 29

29th August 1483.

Question 30

When did the Royal Family seperate?

Answer 30

Mid-September 1483.

Question 31

When was Buckingham’s Rebellion?

Answer 31

October 1483.

Question 32

When did Margaret Beaufort and Elizabeth Woodville agree that Elizabeth of York would marry Henry Tudor?

Answer 32

Late 1483.

Question 33

When was Richard III’s Parliament?

Answer 33

23rd January 1484.

Question 34

When was the death of Anne Neville?

Answer 34

April 1484.

Question 35

When was the death of Edward Prince of Wales?

Answer 35

16th March 1485.

Question 36

When did Richard III name John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln as his sucessor?

Answer 36

16th March 1485.

Question 37

When did Henry Tudor leave Brittany?

Answer 37

1st August 1485.

Question 38

When did Henry Tudor’s invasion force land at Millford Haven?

Answer 38

7th August 1485.

Question 39

When did Henry Tudor’s invasion force enter England?

Answer 39

15th August 1485.

Question 40

When was the Battle of Bosworth?

Answer 40

22nd August 1485.

Question 41

When was the death of Richard III?

Answer 41

22nd August 1485.