1450s in England

Events from the 1450s in England.

1450s in England
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Incumbents

Events
  • 1450
    • 9 January – Adam Moleyns, Bishop of Chichester and Lord Privy Seal is murdered in Portsmouth by discontented unpaid soldiers.
    • 7 February – John de la Pole marries Lady Margaret Beaufort.
    • 15 April – Hundred Years' War: French defeat the English at the Battle of Formigny.[1]
    • 2 May – execution of William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, while he is being sent into exile, being blamed for English losses in the Hundred Years' War.[1]
    • 6 June–12 July – Jack Cade's Rebellion: Jack Cade leads a rebellion in Kent and Sussex against war taxes.[1] On 29 June, William Ayscough, Bishop of Salisbury and confessor to the King, is dragged from mass at Edington Priory in Wiltshire and murdered by rebels.
    • 12 August – Hundred Years' War: Cherbourg surrenders to the French, allowing France to take control of all of Normandy.[2]
    • September – Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York marches an army to London and attacks alleged traitors in the royal government.[2]
    • Extension of Great Malvern Priory begins, with exceptional stained glass windows.[2]
  • 1451
    • June – at the insistence of Parliament, Henry cancels all land grants made during his reign.[2]
    • 30 June – Hundred Years' War: Bordeaux surrenders to the French.[2]
    • 21 August – Hundred Years' War: Bayonne surrenders to the French, ending English rule in Gascony.[2]
    • September – the Duke of York refuses a royal summons to answer for breaking the peace.[2]
  • 1452
    • February – the Duke of York calls for armed resistance to King Henry VI.[2]
    • 1–3 March – supporters of the Duke of York confront the royal army at Dartford. The Duke yields and is pardoned.[2]
    • 21 July – John Kemp enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
    • 22 October – Hundred Years' War: John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury re-captures Bordeaux; England regains control of much of Gascony.[2]
  • 1453
    • March – Parliament grants Henry generous taxes and condemns past rebels.[2]
    • 17 July – Hundred Years' War: at the Battle of Castillon, the French under Jean Bureau defeat the English under the Earl of Shrewsbury, who is killed.[1]
    • 10 August – The King becomes mentally unstable; his cousin Richard, Duke of York acts as regent.[1] The king will be unaware of the birth of his only son, Edward, on 13 October.
    • 24 August – fighting in the north between the families of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury and Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland.[2]
    • 19 October – The Hundred Years' War comes to a close, with the French recapture of Bordeaux leaving the English retaining only Calais on French soil.[1]
  • 1454
    • 15 March – Edward of Westminster invested as Prince of Wales.[2]
    • 23 April – Thomas Bourchier enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury, an office he will hold for almost 32 years.
    • June – the Duke of York suppresses a rebellion led by Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter in the north of England.[2]
    • December – Henry VI recovers from his mental instability; the Duke of York is dismissed as regent.[1]
  • 1455
    • May – garrison at Calais mutinies over pay arrears.[2]
    • 22 May – Wars of the Roses: Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York defeats the army of Henry VI at the First Battle of St Albans; Henry is captured.[1]
    • 23 October – Bonville–Courtenay feud in Devon: Thomas Courtenay, heir to the Earl of Devon, arranges the murder of lawyer Nicholas Radford.[3]
    • 19 November – the Duke of York is reinstated as regent.[2]
    • November–December – Bonville–Courtenay feud leads to continued rioting and rebellion in Devon[2] including sacking of Exeter and the first battle of Clyst Heath (15 December).
    • Earliest known reference to knitting in England.[2]
  • 1456
    • 25 February – Richard of York dismissed as regent for the second time.[2]
    • April – Calais mutiny ends when wool merchants agree to back the garrison's pay.[2]
    • 17 August – Court moves to Coventry; Kenilworth Castle strengthened as the King's principal residence.[2]
  • 1457
    • 1 January – Osmund of Salisbury (died 1099) is canonised, the last English saint created until the 20th century. His remains are translated from Old Sarum to Salisbury Cathedral on 23 July.[4][5]
    • 28 August – French raiders sack Sandwich, Kent.[2]
  • 1458
    • 25 March – The Love Day is staged. Formal reconciliation between Yorkists and Lancastrians takes place at St Paul's Cathedral, London.[2]
    • 15 July – foundation of Magdalen College, Oxford.
    • May – Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick defeats a Spanish fleet in the English Channel.[2]
  • 1459
    • 23 September – Wars of the Roses: at the Battle of Blore Heath in Staffordshire, Yorkists under Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury defeat a Lancastrian force.[2]
    • 12 October – Wars of the Roses: Lancastrian victory at the Battle of Ludford Bridge. Following the battle, the Duke of York flees to Ireland.[2]
    • 10 November – Parliament of Devils, held at Coventry, condemns Yorkists as traitors.[2]

Births
  • 1450
    • William Catesby, politician (died 1485)
  • 1451
  • 1452
    • 2 October – Richard III, king of England (killed 1485)
    • Approximate date – Hugh Oldham, Bishop of Exeter and patron of education (died 1519)
  • 1453
  • 1455
    • 4 September – Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, politician (executed 1483)
  • 1456
    • 11 June – Anne Neville, queen of Richard III (died 1485)
  • 1457
    • 28 January – King Henry VII of England (died 1509)
    • George Nevill, Duke of Bedford (died 1483)
    • Approximate date – Thomas West, 8th Baron De La Warr (died 1525)
  • 1458
  • 1459
    • Edward Poynings, Lord Deputy of Ireland to Henry VII (died 1521)

Deaths

References
  1. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 182–183. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  2. Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 125–128. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
  3. Storey, R. L. (1966). The End of the House of Lancaster. London: Barrie & Rockliffe. p. 167. ISBN 0214666395. the most notorious private crime of the century.
  4. "Bishops of Salisbury". British History Online. Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2007-10-30.
  5. Swanson, R. N. (1995). Religion and Devotion in Europe, c. 1215-c. 1515. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-37950-4.
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