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England » Plantagenet

Chronology of the Wars of the Roses

King Henry VI, Somerset, Northumberland and Clifford - Lancastrians
Duke of York, Warwick, Salisbury - Yorkists

1450 May-July Jack Cade's Revolt.
1450 August Return of Richard Duke of York from Ireland.
1451 spring John and William Merfold's Uprising.
1453 December Henry VI first bout with mental illness.
1454 April Start of Richard Duke of York's first protectorate.
1455 February End of Richard Duke of York's first protectorate.


1455 22 May First Battle of St Albans Decisive Yorkist victory. Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, killed. Richard Duke of York re-appointed Protector.
1456 End of Richard Duke of York's second protectorate.


1459 23 September: Battle of Blore Heath. Yorkist victory.
1459 12 October: Battle of Ludford Bridge. Lancastrian victory. Richard Duke of York flees to Ireland.
1460 15 January: Battle of Sandwich. Decisive Yorkist victory.
1460 10 July: Battle of Northampton. Decisive Yorkist victory. Henry VI captured. Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick (“Kingmaker”), orders massacre of prisoners. Margaret of Anjou flees to Wales.
1460 10 October: Richard Duke of York declared heir to the throne. Margaret of Anjou raises a new army.
1460 25 October: Parliament enacts The Act of Accord
1460 16 December: Battle of Worksop. Small Lancastrian victory.
1460 30 December: Battle of Wakefield. Decisive Lancastrian victory. Richard Duke of York killed, and succeeded by his son Edward.
1461 2 February: Battle of Mortimer's Cross. Decisive Yorkist victory.
1461 17 February: Second Battle of St Albans. Lancastrian victory. Henry VI rescued.
1461 4 March: Edward of York proclaimed king Edward IV, in London.
1461 28 March: Battle of Ferrybridge. Indecisive
1461 29 March: Battle of Towton. Decisive Yorkist victory. Henry VI, his wife Margaret of Anjou, and son Edward, the Prince of Wales, flee to Scotland.
1464 25 April: Battle of Hedgeley Moor. Yorkist victory.
1464 15 May: Battle of Hexham. Decisive Yorkist victory.
1465 24 June: Henry VI captured and imprisoned in the Tower of London.
1469 26 July: Battle of Edgecote Moor. Rebel (York) victory.
1470 12 March: Battle of Losecoat Field. Royal (York) Victory.
1470 1 May: Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick (“Kingmaker”), flees to France. He joined forces with Margaret of Anjou and returns to England.
1470 13 October: Henry VI restored to the throne.
1471 14 March: Edward IV flees to France and returns with a small army.
1471 14 April: Battle of Barnet. Yorkist victory. Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick (“Kingmaker”), killed.
1471 4 May: Battle of Tewkesbury. Decisive Yorkist victory. Edward, the Prince of Wales killed and his mother, Margaret of Anjou, captured.
1483 9 April: Edward IV dies, and is succeeded by his son Edward V.
1485 7 August: Henry Tudor lands at Milford Haven in Wales.
1485 22 August: Battle of Bosworth Field. Decisive Tudor victory. King Richard III killed.

1485 30 October: Henry VII crowned at Westminster.
1486 18 January: Henry VII and Elizabeth of York marry, uniting the houses of Lancaster and York.
1487 16 June: Battle of Stoke Field. Decisive Tudor victory.




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