| 1452.Oct.02 | | Birth of the future king Richard III, brother of king Edward IV and youngest son of Richard, Duke of York, at Fotheringay Castle |
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| 1457.Jan.28 | | Birth of Henry Tudor (the future King Henry VII), earl of
Richmond, to Edmund Tudor, earl of Richmond, and Margaret Beaufort. |
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| 1472.Jan.19 | | Birth of future astronomer Nicholas Copernicus
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| 1478.Feb.07 | | Birth of Sir Thomas More
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| 1485 | | Henry VII becomes monarch by
battle establishing the House of Tudor and ending the Wars of the Roses |
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| 1485 | | William Caxton prints Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur |
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| 1485.Aug.22 | | Battle of Bosworth Field: Lancastrian Henry, Earl of Richmond, (later Henry VII) defeats and kills Richard III (last of the Plamtagenet Kings) and the Yorkists
John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln, flees the battlefield but is captured later |
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| 1485.Oct.30 | | Henry VII crowned king of England |
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| 1485.Dec.16 | | Birth of Katherine of Aragon, youngest daughter of King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella of Castile (Spain), the wife of King Henry VIII |
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| 1486.Sep.19 | | Birth of Arthur, Duke of Cornwall, eldest son of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York |
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| 1489 | | Treaty of Medina del Campo;
Katherine of Aragon betrothed
to Prince Arthur of England |
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| 1489.Jul.02 | | Birth of Thomas Cranmer |
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| 1489.Nov.29 | | Birth of Margaret Tudor |
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| 1491.Jun.28 | | Birth of Prince Henry (later Henry VIII) to Henry VII at Greenwich |
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| 1497 | | John Cabot and his three sons
landed on the American mainland |
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| 1497.Jun.17 | | Battle of Blackheath: Henry VII's vastly superior army under Giles, Lord Daubeney routes the Cornish rebels at Blackheath and its leaders are all captured ( !! or July 13th !! ) |
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| 1500 | | Michelangelo
paints the Madonna and Child |
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| 1500 | | Death of the Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias |
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| 1500.Feb.24 | | Birth of the future Charles V of Spain |
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| 1501.Sep.27 | | Arrival of Catherine of Aragon in England |
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| 1501.Nov.14 | | Arthur, Prince of Wales married to Catherine of Aragon |
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| 1502.Apr.02 | | Death of Arthur, Prince of Wales, at Ludlow Castle. His brother Henry becomes heir to the throne
Reluctant to return the widowed Katherine of Aragon\'s dowery, Henry VII started negotiations with Aragon and Castile for her marriage to Henry |
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| 1503 | | Fall of Caesar Borgia |
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| 1503 | | Leonardo da
Vinci paints the Mona Lisa |
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| 1503.Jun | | Betrothal of Katherine of Aragon to Prince Henry (VIII) |
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| circa 1508 | | The king begins to employ Thomas Wolsey in diplomatic service
It is probably about this time Wolsey made the well-known journey to Flanders as special envoy to the Emperor Maximilian |
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| 1509.Jun.24 | | Catherine of Aragon crowned Queen |
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| 1513 | | Machiavelli writes The Prince |
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| 1513 | | Ferdinand objects to the marriage of his grandson, Charles of Flanders, to Mary, sister of Henry VIII, abandons Henry and makes peace with France |
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| 1513.Jun | | Expedition to France: English capture Terouenne and Tournay, the French defeated at Guinegate (the battle of Spurs)
Organised by Thomas Wolsey who accompanied the King. Wolsey was followed by a train of two hundred gentlemen
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| 1513.Aug.22 | | The Scots invade England
They are defeated and their monarch, James IV, killed at the Battle of Flodden |
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| 1513.Sep.09 | | English forces under the Earl of Surrey defeat James IV of Scotland at the Battle of Flodden Fields
The battle results in over ten thousand dead, James IV of Scotland among them |
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| 1514 | | Trinity House founded by King Henry VIII
Initially it was responsible for supplying coastal pilots, later for building and maintenance of lighthouses
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| 1514.Aug | | Peace signed between England and France
Louis XII agrees to increase the pension the French are paying in reparations |
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| 1514.Oct | | Marriage of Mary Tudor, sister of Henry VIII, and Louis XII of France
(the marriage arranged by Wolsey) |
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| 1515.Sep.10 | | Thomas Cromwell made a cardinal by Pope Leo X |
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| 1515.Dec.24 | | Thomas Wolsey becomes Lord Chancellor of England
Wolsey has attained the highest dignities, both spiritual and temporal, of any subject |
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| 1542.Dec.08 | | Birth of Mary, future Queen of Scotland, at the Palace of Linlithgow, West Lothian, to King James V of Scotland and his French wife, Marie of Guise
She was born on December 7th or 8th |
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| 1543.May.24 | | Death of the astronomer Copernicus, aged 70, shortly after the publication of his heliocentric theory |
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| 1545 | | Opening of the Council of Trent; the Counter Reformation |
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| 1545 | | Sinking of the Mary Rose and Roger Grenville in the Solent off Portsmouth |
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| 1545.Feb.27 | | Battle of Ancrum Moor: English defeated by the Scots at Ancrum Moor |
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| 1545.Jul | | Battle of the Solent: French fleet enters the Solent intending to destroy the English fleet and invade the Isle of Wight |
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| 1546.Feb.18 | | Death of Martin Luther at Eisleben (where he was born), aged 63 |
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| 1546.Jun.07 | | Peace of Ardres; ends two years of conflict between Henry VIII and Francis I |
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| 1552.Aug.31 | | Henry VIII proclaims limitations on prices for bows and arrows for footmen and horsemen(see Archery) |
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