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Advanced Placement (AP) English Literature and Composition (also known as Senior AP English, AP Lit, APENG, or AP English IV) is a course and examination offered by the College Board [1] as part of the Advanced Placement Program in the United States.
Edward IV (28 April 1442 – 9 April 1483) was King of England from 4 March 1461 to 3 October 1470, [1] [2] then again from 11 April 1471 until his death in 1483. He was a central figure in the Wars of the Roses , a series of civil wars in England fought between the Yorkist and Lancastrian factions between 1455 and 1487.
Pope Adrian IV (Latin: Adrianus IV; born Nicholas Breakspear (or Brekespear); [1] c. 1100 [note 1] – 1 September 1159, also Hadrian IV) [3] was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 4 December 1154 to his death in 1159. He is the only Englishman to have been pope.
On the day of Henry IV's death, 20 March 1413, the line of succession to the English throne following agnatic primogeniture was: Henry of Monmouth, Prince of Wales (born 1386), eldest son of Henry IV; Thomas, Duke of Clarence (born 1387), second son of Henry IV; John (born 1389), third son of Henry IV; Humphrey (born 1390), fourth son of Henry IV
Henry was the first English ruler whose mother tongue was English (rather than French) since the Norman Conquest, over 300 years earlier. [4] As king, he faced a number of rebellions, most seriously those of Owain Glyndŵr , the last Welshman to claim the title of Prince of Wales, and the English knight Henry Percy (Hotspur) , who was killed in ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 14 January 2025. 15th-century English siblings who disappeared The Two Princes Edward and Richard in the Tower, 1483 by Sir John Everett Millais, 1878, part of the Royal Holloway picture collection. Edward V at right wears the garter of the Order of the Garter beneath his left knee. The Princes in the ...
The English chronicle of John Stow first published in 1580 adds more details. Edward IV, says Stow, invaded Scotland at Albany's request, "forgetting his oath," and borrowing £5,000 from the City of London. The sum is less than the 8,000 marks or £5,333 of Cecilia's dowry received by James III. [43] The army mustered at Alnwick at the start ...
Samuel Palmer's pencil black and white landscape study, Eclogue IV: Thy Very Cradle Quickens (1876) Eclogue 4, also known as the Fourth Eclogue, is a Latin poem by the Roman poet Virgil. The poem is dated to 40 BC by its mention of the consulship of Virgil's patron Gaius Asinius Pollio.