The Timeline | 11th C | 12th C | 13th C | 14th C | 15th C | 16th C | 17th C | 18th C | 19th C | 20th C
| YEAR |
MONARCH |
POLITICAL EVENTS AND CONFLICTS |
SOCIAL HISTORY AND EPIDEMICS |
INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES |
NOTABLE EVENTS |
| 1400 |
Owen Glendower revolts in Wales | Chaucer dies in London, 25th October | |||
| 1413 | Henry V 21st March |
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| 1415 | Battle of Agincourt | ||||
| 1422 | Henry VI 1st September |
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| 1440 | Eton College & Kings College Cambridge founded | ||||
| 1450 | Jack Cade's rebellion | ||||
| 1454 | Johannes Gutenberg uses movable type commercially | ||||
| 1455 | Start of the Wars of the Roses First Battle of St Albans |
Johannes Gutenberg prints 42 Line Bible in Catholic Mainz, Germany | |||
| 1461 | Edward IV 4th March |
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| 1470 | Henry VI | ||||
| 1471 | Edward IV | Battle of Barnet | |||
| 1476 | Caxton sets up first English printing press | ||||
| 1477 | William Caxton (first English Printer) produces "Book of Curtesye & Rhymes for the Goodly Chylde" | ||||
| 1483 | Edward V 9th April Richard III 26th June |
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| 1485 | Tudor Henry VII 22nd August |
Battle of Bosworth Field | Richard III dies in battle | ||
| 1486 | Henry married Elizabeth of York, uniting the houses of York and Lancaster | ||||
| 1491 | Perkin Warbeck claims to be Richard, Duke of York | ||||
| 1492 | Christopher Columbus discovers America | ||||
| 1495 | First dry dock built at Portsmouth | ||||
| 1496 | First English blast furnace built in the Weald | ||||
| 1498 | Toothbrush invented in China | ||||
| 1499 | Perkin Warbeck hanged | Amergo Vespucci (Italian) explores and describes American coast |