Timeline Flashcards
Marriage of Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou
March 1445
End of duke of York’s Lieutenancy in France
September 1445
Duke of Somerset appointed Lieutenant General in France
December 1446
York appointed Lieutenant of Ireland
July 1447
Surrender of Anjou and Maine
March 1448
French invasion of Normandy
April 1449
York takes up hid post as Lieutenant of Ireland
July 1449
Exile and murder of the Duke of Suffolk
April 1450
Cades rebellion
May/June 1450
Loss of Normandy
August 1450
Return from France to the defeated duke of Somerset
August 1450
Return from Ireland of Richard duke of York
September 1450
York returns to England
November 1450
Attempted coup staged at dartford
March 1452
Henry VIs illness begins
August 1453
Birth of prince Edward
October 1453
Somerset’s imprisonment in the Tower of London
November 1453
Protectorate set up
March 1454
Recovery of Henry VI
December 1454
Protectorate ended
February 1455
Somerset released from the Tower of London
February 1455
First battle of St Albans
May 1455
Deaths of Somerset, Northumberland, and Clifford
May 1455
York’s second protectorate begins
November 1455
York’s second protectorate ends
February 1456
The loveday
March 1458
The earl of Warwick disobeys queen Margaret
October 1458
Battle of blore heath
September 1459
Battle of ludford bridge
October 1459
Parliament of devils
November 1459
Battle of Northampton
July 1460
Act of accord
October 1460
Battle of Wakefield
December 1460
Death of York
December 1460
Battle of Mortimer cross
February 1461
Second battle of St Albans
February 1461
Edward IV proclaimed king
March 1461
Battle of Towton
March 1461
Edward IV crowned king
June 1461
Battle of hedgely moor
April 1464
Battle of Hexham
May 1464
Edward secretly marries Elizabeth Woodville
May 1464
Henry VI is captured and put in the Tower of London
July 1465
Commercial treaty with Burgundy concluded
November 1467
Marriage treaty agreed with burgundy by which Charles of burgundy will marry Edward IVs sister (Margaret)
March 1468
Rebellion of robin redesdale
April 1469
Battle of Edgecote
July 1469
Battle of Losecoat field
March 1470
Edward IV flees to burgundy and Henry VI is returned to the throne
October 1470
Battle of Barnet
April 1471
Earl of Warwick killed
April 1471
Battle of Tewkesbury
May 1471
Lancastrian prince of Wales killed and Henry IV killed
May 1471
Treaty of Châteaugiron with Brittany
September 1472
Treaty of London with Burgundy
July 1474
Treaty of Picquigny with France
August 1475
Death of the duke of Clarence
February 1478
Death of Edward IV
April 1483
Lord Hastings, earl rivers, Richard grey and Thomas Vaughan executed
June 1483
Edward V and Richard duke of York last seen in the Tower of London
July 1483
Richard III crowned king
July 1483
Buckingham rebellion
October 1483
Death of Richards only son, Edward
April 1484
Death of Queen Anne
1485
Battle of Bosworth field
August 1485
Richard III is killed and Henry VII becomes king
August 1485
Marriage of Henry VIIs to Elizabeth of York
January 1486
Conspiracy of Lovell and Stafford
July 1486
Birth of prince Arthur
September 1486
Act of resumption passed
September 1486
Simnels rebellion
June 1487
Battle of Stoke
June 1487
Yorkshire rebellion
1489
Warbecks rebellion
1491-99
Birth of prince Henry
June 1491
Warbeck surrenders
October 1497
Warbeck hanged
November 1499
Death of prince Arthur
April 1502
Death of queen Elizabeth
February 1503
Edmund de la pole imprisioned in the Tower
April 1506
Death of Henry VII
April 1509
