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1400. January – Henry IV quells the Epiphany Rising and executes the Earls of Kent, Huntingdon and Salisbury and the Baron le Despencer for their attempt to have Richard II restored as King. [1] 14 February – death of the deposed Richard II in Pontefract Castle. His body is displayed in old St Paul's Cathedral, London, on 17 February before ...
Silbury Hill, c. 2400 BC. England has been continuously inhabited since the last Ice Age ended around 9000 BC, the beginning of the Middle Stone Age, or Mesolithic era. Rising sea-levels cut off Britain from the continent for the last time around 6500 BC.
e. England in the Middle Ages concerns the history of England during the medieval period, from the end of the 5th century through to the start of the early modern period in 1485. When England emerged from the collapse of the Roman Empire, the economy was in tatters and many of the towns abandoned. After several centuries of Germanic immigration ...
1305 Capture and execution of Scottish resistance fighter William Wallace by the English on a charge of treason. 1306 Robert the Bruce kills John Comyn III of Badenoch and is crowned King of Scotland. 1307 Death of Edward I, Edward II accedes to the English throne. 1314 Decisive victory for Scotland over England at the Battle of Bannockburn.
1003. Edward the Confessor, the future king of England (r. 1042-1066), is born to parents Æthelred the Unready and Emma of Normandy. 1016. Harold Harefoot, the future king of England (r.1035-1040), is born to parents Cnut the Great and Ælfgifu of Northhampton. 1016.
Barking Abbey was visited by William I shortly after his coronation, and was one of the richest nunneries in England. [23] Bermondsey Abbey was founded in 1082 by a Londoner called Aylwin Child [61] and became England's main centre for Cluniac monks. [100] Merton Priory was founded in 1114 and its students included the archbishop Thomas Becket ...
April–June. April 21 – Sir Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester, resigns as England 's Admiral of the North and West to join the resistance against King Henry IV. The office will remain vacant for more than six years. Percy will be beheaded in 1403 after his defeat in the Battle of Shrewsbury. April 23 – In what is now Romania, Alexandru ...
Cecily Neville. Signature. 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 ...