17 August 1424 – Hundred Years' War: Battle of Verneuil – An English force under John, Duke of Bedford defeats a larger French army under the Duke of Alençon, John Stewart, and Earl Archibald of Douglas. 1473 – Birth of Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke...
14 August 1415 – Henry the Navigator leads Portuguese forces to victory over the Marinids at the Battle of Ceuta. 1433 – Death of John I of Portugal 1464 – Death of Pope Pius II 1473 – Birth of Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury She was an English peeress....
30 July 1419 – First Defenestration of Prague: a crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council. 1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage. 1535-Sir Thomas...
4 August 1327 – First War of Scottish Independence: James Douglas leads a raid into Weardale and almost kills Edward III of England. 1430 –Death of Philip I, Duke of Brabant 1521 – Birth of Pope Urban VII 1530-Determination of the university of Alcala...
06 August 1414 – Death of Ladislaus of Naples 1458 – Death of Pope Callixtus III 1504 – Birth of Matthew Parker, English archbishop 1514 - Marriage of Margaret Tudor and Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus 1544-Queen Catherine Parr to the Council with...
22 July 1210 – Birth of Joan of England, Queen of Scotland 1461 – Death of Charles VII of France 1478 –Birth of Philip I of Castile 1484 – Battle of Lochmaben Fair – A 500-man raiding party led by Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany and James Douglas, 9th...
8 August 1503 – King James IV of Scotland marries Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England at Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh, Scotland. 1533- Henry VIII. to Norfolk and Rochford Had written to him by lord Rochford what arguments he should use...
29 July 1504 – Death of Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby, husband of Lady Margaret Beaufort, and stepfather of Henry VII, at Lathom. 1509 - Birth of George Neville, he was the youngest son of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, and Alice Neville,...
23 July 1411 – Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles in Scotland, takes place. 1529 – Birth of Charles II, Margrave of Baden-Durlach 1534 – French explorer Jacques Cartier plants a cross on the Gaspé Peninsula and takes possession of the territory...
31 July 1423 – Hundred Years' War: Battle of Cravant – the French army is defeated by the English at Cravant on the banks of the river Yonne. 1451 – Jacques Cœur is arrested by order of Charles VII of France. 1498 – On his third voyage to the Western...
11 July 1274 – Birth of Robert the Bruce, Scottish king 1476 – Giuliano della Rovere is appointed bishop of Coutances. 1531 - Henry moved the court to Woodstock for a spell of hunting. He did not tell Catherine of Aragon about the move, choosing, instead,...
28 June 1461 – Coronation of Edward IV at Westminster Abbey. 1485 - Gent/Brugge/Ieper recognize Maximilian of Austria as regent of Neth 1491 – Birth of Henry VIII at Greenwich Palace. Margaret Beaufort recorded Henry's birth in her Book of Hours: 1516...
30 June 1422 – Battle of Arbedo between the duke of Milan and the Swiss cantons. 1470 – Birth of Charles VIII of France, King of France 1520 – Spanish conquistadors led by Hernán Cortés fight their way out of Tenochtitlan. 1521 – Spanish forces defeat...
22 June 1377 - Richard II succeeds Edward III as king of England 1527 - Henry VIII informed Catherine of Aragon that they were not man and wife and they must separate because they had been living in sin.He asked her to co-operate and to choose a house...
19 June 1269 – King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver. 1282 –Death of Eleanor de Montfort, wife of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, prince of Wales 1306 – The Earl of Pembroke's...
14 June 1381 – Richard II of England meets leaders of Peasants' Revolt on Blackheath. The Tower of London is stormed by rebels who enter without resistance. 1497 - Death of Juan Borgia, Duke of Gandia.He was a member of the House of Borgia and the son...
27 July 1276-Death of James I of Aragon 1365-Death of Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria 1382-Death of Joanna I of Naples 1452-Birth of Ludovico Sforza, Italian son of Francesco I Sforza 1534-Chapuys to Charles V. I received two days ago your majesty's letters...
14 July 1486 - Death of Margaret of Denmark , she was Queen of Scotland from 1469 to 1486 as the wife of King James III. She was the daughter of Christian I, King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, and Dorothea of Brandenburg. 1520-Henry VIII and Charles...
15 June 1215-King John meets with his Barons and signs Magna Carta at Runnymede 1330-Birth of Edward, the black prince, prince of Wales 1381-Wat Tyler, leader of English Peasants' Revolt is killed on Blackheath whilst meeting with King Richard II 1519...
12 June 1442 - King Alfonso V of Aragon occupies Naples 1492 – Burial of Elizabeth Woodville 1530 – Catherine of Aragon told Henry VIII to abandon his “wicked” life. 1535 – Richard Rich visits Thomas More's cell and takes away his books and writing materials....
06 June 1508 – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, is defeated in Friuli by Venetian troops 1520-Francis I Ratification of the treaty made on the Field of the Cloth of Gold with Henry VIII., touching the marriage of Mary with the Dauphin, the sums of money...
08 June 1476 - Death of George Neville, archbishop of York and Chancellor of England, was the youngest son of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, and Alice Neville, 5th Countess of Salisbury. He was the brother of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick,...
10 June 1523 – Copenhagen is surrounded by the army of Frederick I of Denmark, as the city won't recognise him as the successor of Christian II of Denmark. 1536-Anne Boleyn's Execution. Anonymous letter giving an account of the execution on Wednesday...
9 June 1511 - Death of William Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon,feudal baron of Okehampton and feudal baron of Plympton,was a member of the leading noble family of Devon. His principal seat was Tiverton Castle, Devon with further residences at Okehampton...
06 July 1189 – Death of Henry II of England 1348 – Pope Clement VI issues a papal bull protecting the Jews accused of having caused the Black Death. 1483 – Richard III is crowned King of England. 1535 – Execution of Sir Thomas More A bit before 9:00 a.m.,...
