Timeline Dates Flashcards
When did Suffolk negotiate an unpopular, but probably necessary, truce with France?
1444
When was Suffolk formally impeached as a traitor?
28th January 1450
In which month of 1450 did London temporarily fall into the hands of Jack Cade and his rebels?
July
In what year did Jack Cade’s rebellion occur?
1450
When did Richard of York return to London from Ireland at the head of a large army?
September 1450
In what year was a piece of land in Essex put in the joint trusteeship of York and Somerset?
1448
When was Henry VI’s heir, Edward, born?
13th October 1453
In what year had Somerset succeeded York as Lieutenant in France?
1447
when did Richard II become king?
1377
when did Henry Bolingbroke usurp Richard II?
1399
when was Richard II murdered?
February 1400
when were there rebellions against Henry IV?
1400-1408
when was Henry IV almost dethroned by Percy family?
1403
when was the Battle of Shrewsbury?
1403
when was the Battle of Bramham Moor ?
1408
when did Henry V become king?
1413
when was the Southampton plot?
1415
when was the Battle of Agincourt?
1415
when was Richard of York’s father executed for treason?
1415
when was the Treaty of Troyes?
1420
when did Henry VI become king?
31st August 1422
when was the Treaty of Arras?
1435
when did John, Duke of Bedford, die?
1435
when was the French reconquest of Paris?
April 1436
when was Richard Duke of York appointed English lieutenant of France?
1436-37 and 1440-45
when did Henry VI officially begin his ‘personal rule’ of England?
1437
when was the agrarian crisis in Northern England?
1438-40
when did the expensive but poorly led expedition to conquer lands in Gascony led by John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, end in total failure?
1443
when was the Truce of Tours?
1444
when did Henry VI marry Margaret of Anjou?
april 1445
when did Cardinal Beaufort die?
1447
when did Humphrey of Gloucester die?
1447
when did Edmund Beaufort (younger brother of John Beaufort), replace Richard of York as English Lieutenant in France?
1447-50
when was Maine surrendered to France?
March 1448
when did Edmund Beaufort becomes duke of Somerset?
1448
when were Rye and Winchelsea raided by French?
1448
when did England lose Normandy in France?
1449
when did Francois de Surienne capture the Breton town of Fougeres?
29 March 1449
when did French attacks begin on Normandy?
May 1449
when did the truce with France end?
July 1449
when was Rouen, the capital of Normandy, surrendered by Somerset?
29th October 1449
when was Bishop Adam Moleyns forced to resign from government?
november 1449
when did duke of somerset surrender at Caen allowing him to escape normandy?
1450
when was Duke of Suffolk’s ally, Bishop Adam Moleyns, murdered by mob in Portsmouth?
9th Jan 1450
when was Suffolk arrested, imprisoned in tower of london, and later banished for 5 years?
28th january 1450
when was the uprising in Ipswich?
3rd March 1450
when was the Battle of Formigny (decisive French victory in Normandy)?
15th April 1450
when was Duke of Suffolk, William de la Pole, killed on his way to exile in France?
2nd May 1450
when was Jack Cade’s Rebellion?
May-July 1450
when did Jack Cade change his last name to ‘Mortimer’?
early Jun 1450
when did Cade’s rebels clash with royal forces at Sevenoaks?
18th Jun 1450
when did the congregation of Edington Church Wiltshire hack William Ayscough, Bishop of Salisbury, to death?
29th Jun 1450
when did Cade’s men reach London and presented a formal complaint?
4th July 1450
when was Lord Saye killed by a mob?
4th July 1450
when was there a Battle on London Bridge between Cade’s men and officials of London where the rebels sustained heavy casualties?
8th Jul 1450
when did the King issued a pardon to all of Cade’s men that withdrew from the capital immediately. (The pardon did not apply to Cade who fled South)?
9th July 1450
when was Cade captured near Lewes?
12th July 1450
when did Edmund Beaufort returned to London from France. (Suffolk’s old allies made him their new leader and his influence grew with the king and queen)?
1st Aug 1450
when was Cherbourg surrendered to the French (a move that gave France control of all Normandy)?
12th Aug 1450
when did Richard of York return from Ireland, claiming conspiracy against him, and attempt to dominate government?
september 1450
when did York tour East Anglia gathering support including from the Duke of Norfolk. (He brought it to London to pressure government)?
October 1450
when did the York-supporting Commons in parliament petitioned for the removal of the lands, possessions, and access to the king of (among many others): Duke of Somerset, Duchess of Suffolk, Thomas Daniel, John Trevelyan?
November 1450
when was Somerset assaulted then placed in the tower of London for his own safety due to anti-Somerset protests in the city?
1st December 1450
when was the judicial initiative tour of Kent launched by HVI to deal with the rebels from Cade’s rebellion?
january 1451
by what point had Duke of Somerset had emerged as effective leader of the royal government?
spring 1451
