Key Dates Edward IV (1)

Question 1

When was Edward admitted to London?

Answer 1

26th February 1461.

Question 2

When was it decided that Edward would become King by a council of nobles?

Answer 2

3rd March 1461.

Question 3

When was it announced that Edward would be King?

Answer 3

4th March 1461.

Question 4

When did Edward issue a proclamation of pardon to all those who submitted to him within 10 days?

Answer 4

6th March 1461.

Question 5

When was the Battle of Ferrybridge?

Answer 5

28th March 1461.

Question 6

When was the Battle of Towton?

Answer 6

29th March 1461.

Question 7

When did Henry VI, Anjou and Edward Prince of Wales flee to Scotland?

Answer 7

Late March 1461 - after the Battle of Towton.

Question 8

When was Edward’s coronation?

Answer 8

28th June 1461.

Question 9

When was the Land Revenue Experiment began?

Answer 9

1461.

Question 10

When was Humphrey Stafford made a baron and William Herbert made Earl of Pembroke?

Answer 10

1461.

Question 11

When was there a French attack on the Channel Islands after negotiations between Charles VII and Anjou?

Answer 11

1461.

Question 12

When was Edward granted a tax to go to war with Scotland.

Answer 12

1462.

Question 13

When did Edward order Warwick to retake the Percy’s Castles of Dunstunburgh, Bamburgh and Alnwick?

Answer 13

1462.

Question 14

When were the Percy’s Castles of Dunstunburgh, Bamburgh and Alnwick returned to them?

Answer 14

April 1462.

Question 15

When did the Percies defect back to the Lancastrians?

Answer 15

October 1462.

Question 16

When did Edward agree a truce with France to get them to withdraw support from the Lancastrians?

Answer 16

October 1463.

Question 17

When did Edward agree a truce with Scotland to get them to withdraw support from the Lancastrians?

Answer 17

December 1463.

Question 18

When did Anjou offer Berwick to the Scottish for their support?

Answer 18

1464.

Question 19

When did Edward secretly marry Elizabeth Woodville?

Answer 19

1st May 1464.

Question 20

When was the Battle of Hedgeley Moor?

Answer 20

25th April 1464.

Question 21

When was the Battle of Hexham?

Answer 21

15th May 1464.

Question 22

When did Edward reveal his marriage to Elizabeth Woodville?

Answer 22

14th September 1464.

Question 23

When was Henry captured in Lancashire and put in the Tower of London?

Answer 23

July 1465.

Question 24

When was Edward granted Customs Duties for life?

Answer 24

1465.

Question 25

When was the role of Treasurer taken from Mountjoy and given to Elizabeth Woodville’s father?

Answer 25

1465.

Question 26

When did Edward make a treaty with Burgundy?

Answer 26

1467.

Question 27

When were Margaret and Charles the Bold married?

Answer 27

1468.

Question 28

When did Warwick begin arranging the marriage of Isobel Neville and Clarence?

Answer 28

1467.

Question 29

When did Warwick seek dispensation from the Pope for the marriage of Isobel Neville and Clarence?

Answer 29

June 1467.

Question 30

When was Warwick removed as Lord Chancellor?

Answer 30

June 1467.

Question 31

When did England make a treaty with Brittany?

Answer 31

1468.

Question 32

When was Edward granted a tax by Parliament for war against France?

Answer 32

1468.

Question 33

When was retaining made illegal?

Answer 33

1468.

Question 34

When was the Robin of Redesdale rebellion?

Answer 34

Spring 1469.

Question 35

When were Isobel Neville and Clarence married?

Answer 35

July 1469.

Question 36

When did Warwick issue a declaration saying he would relieve England of its “evil advisers”?

Answer 36

12th July 1469.

Question 37

When did Warwick land back in England?

Answer 37

16th July 1469.

Question 38

When was the Battle of Edgecote Moor?

Answer 38

26th July 1469.

Question 39

When were the beheadings of William Herbert and Earl Rivers?

Answer 39

12th August 1469.

Question 40

When was Edward released from the Tower of London?

Answer 40

September 1469.

Question 41

When was Edward reconciled with Warwick and Clarence?

Answer 41

December 1469.

Question 42

When was the title of the Earl of Northumberland taken from Montague and given to Henry Percy?

Answer 42

March 1470.

Question 43

When was the Battle of Losecoat Field?

Answer 43

12th March 1470.

Question 44

When did Warwick and Clarence flee to France?

Answer 44

March 1470 (after Battle of Losecoat Field).

Question 45

When was the Treaty of Angers?

Answer 45

July 1470.

Question 46

When was the marriage of Anne Neville and Edward Prince of Wales.

Answer 46

July 1470.

Question 47

When did Edward fear a pincer movement from Montague in the North and Warwick from the South?

Answer 47

September 1470.

Question 48

When did Edward board a ship at King’s Lynn for Holland?

Answer 48

2nd October 1470.

Question 49

When was the readeption of Henry VI?

Answer 49

3rd October 1470.

Question 50

When did Henry VI declare war on Burdundy?

Answer 50

Late 1470.

Question 51

When did Edward land at the Humber Estuary?

Answer 51

14th March 1471.

Question 52

When was Henry VI put in the Tower of London?

Answer 52

March 1471.