18 June 1269 –Birth of Eleanor of England, Countess of Bar 1291-Death of Alfonso III of Aragon 1318 –Birth of Eleanor of Woodstock 1429-Under Joan of Arc, French Victorious at Battle of Patay 1452-Pope Nicholas V Authorizes Enslavement of Saracens and...
31 May 1443 – Birth of Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby.She was the mother of King Henry VII and paternal grandmother of King Henry VIII of England. She was a key figure in the Wars of the Roses and an influential matriarch of the...
22 May 1455- Start of the Wars of the Roses 22 May 1455-King Henry VI is taken prisoner by the Yorkists at the Battle of St. Albans 22 May 1455 - Death of Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland.He was an English nobleman and military commander in the...
2 June 1418-Death of Catherine of Lancaster,Queen of Castile as the wife of King Henry III of Castile. Queen Catherine was the daughter of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, and his second wife, Constance of Castile (the daughter and heir of King Peter...
03 June 1535 - Sir Thomas More appears for a third interrogation in the Tower of London by Thomas Cromwell,Thomas Boleyn, Thomas Audley, and the Duke of Suffolk . He is asked to give an oath to the supremacy of Henry as head of the Church of England,...
24 May 1425 - Death of Murdoch Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany, Scottish politician 24 May 1487- The ten-year-old Lambert Simnel is crowned in Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin, Ireland, with the name of Edward VI in a bid to threaten King Henry VII's reign....
28 July 1488 – Death of Edward Woodville He was a member of the Woodville family during the Wars of the Roses. He survived the reign of Richard III in which several of his relatives were executed in a power struggle after the death of Edward IV. Exiled...
30 May 1416-Jerome of Prague is burned as a heretic by the Church.He was a Czech church reformer and one of the chief followers of Jan Hus who was burned for heresy at the Council of Constance. 1431-Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by the English. 1472...
26 May 1520 - Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon met with Charles V at Dover 26 May 1536 – Princess Mary to Cromwell "Master Secretary, I would have been a suitor to you before this time to have been a mean for me to the King's Grace to have obtained...
4 July 1415-Pope Gregory XII Resigns at Council of Constance 1519-Followers of Martin Luther Described as Lutherans for First Time 1533 - Burning of John Frith, reformer, at Smithfield for heresy. 1534 – Christian III is elected King of Denmark and Norway...
26 June 1409 – Western Schism: The Roman Catholic church is led into a double schism as Petros Philargos is crowned Pope Alexander V after the Council of Pisa, joining Pope Gregory XII in Rome and Pope Benedict XII in Avignon. The Western Schism or Papal...
13 June 1483-Execution of William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings.He was an English nobleman. A follower of the House of York, he became a close friend and one of the most important courtiers of King Edward IV, whom he served as Lord Chamberlain. He was...
05 June 1516 - Maria de Salinas ( lady-in-waiting to Catherine of Aragon) married William, 11th Lord Willoughby of Eresby.Their daughter was Catherine Willoughby,( fourth wife of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk) Maria was a devoted friend to Catherine...
28 May 1509 – Death of Edward Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon. 28 May 1521 - Pope Leo X signs treaty with Holy Roman Emperor Charles V 28 May 1533 – The Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, declares the marriage of King Henry VIII of England to Anne...
21 May 1471-King Henry VI is killed in the Tower of London. 21 May 1471-Edward IV takes the throne. 21 May 1524-Death of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk.He was the only son of John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk, by his first wife, Katherine Moleyns....
31 July 1192 – Richard the Lionheart landed on Jaffa and defeated the army of Saladin 1402 – Death of Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault 1464 – Death of Cosimo de' Medici, Italian ruler 1498 – Christopher...
23 July 1301 – Birth of Otto, Duke of Austria 1339 – Birth of Louis I, Duke of Anjou 1403 –Death of Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester 1503 – Birth of Anne of Bohemia and Hungary 1528-The divorce-Promise of Clement VII. that he will grant no letters...
1501 –Birth of Isabella of Austria 1509 - Edmund Dudley convicted of treason. Edmund Dudley was an English administrator and a financial agent of King Henry VII. He served as Speaker of the House of Commons and President of the King's Council. After the...
9 July 1540 – Henry VIII’s marriage to Anne of Cleves was declared null and void. 1551 - English currency is further debased 1553 - Bishop Ridley announced at the pulpit that Mary and Elizabeth were bastards,Mary wrote to the privy council stating her...
2 July 1214 - Battle of La Roche-aux-Moines The Battle of Roche-au-Moine was a battle between the Kingdom of France and the Kingdom of England in 1214. When John besieged the castle, he retreated after he was refused support from Angevin nobles. 1298...
20 July 1189 – Richard I of England officially invested as Duke of Normandy. 1304 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of Stirling Castle – King Edward I of England takes the stronghold using the War Wolf. 1387 – Death of Robert IV of Artois, Count of...
21 July 1403 – Battle of Shrewsbury: King Henry IV of England defeats rebels to the north of the county town of Shropshire, England. 1403 – Death of Henry Percy, English soldier Sir Henry Percy was known as one of the most valiant knights of his day,...
1429 – Hundred Years' War: Charles VII of France is crowned the King of France in the Reims Cathedral after a successful campaign by Joan of Arc 1453 – Death of John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, English commander 1517-"The christening of the Lady Frances,...
16 July 1377 – Coronation of Richard II of England. 1517 - Birth of Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk, at Hatfield.She was the second child and eldest daughter of King Henry VIII's sister Mary,queen of France and Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk. She...
29 June 1136 –Birth of Petronilla of Aragon She was the Queen of Aragon from the abdication of her father in 1137 until her own abdication in 1164. She was the daughter and successor of Ramiro II by his queen, Agnes of Aquitaine. She was the last ruling...
