Timeline pre 1450

Question 1

when did Richard II become king?

Answer 1

1377

Question 2

when did Henry Bolingbroke overthrow Richard II?

Answer 2

1399

Question 3

when did Henry V become king?

Answer 3

1413

Question 4

When was the Battle of Agincourt?

Answer 4

1415

Question 5

when was Richard of York’s father executed for treason?

Answer 5

1415

Question 6

when did Henry V make William de la Pole (Duke of Suffolk) admiral of Normandy?

Answer 6

1419

Question 7

when was the Treaty of Troyes?

Answer 7

1420

Question 8

when did Henry V make William de la Pole (Duke of Suffolk) Knight of the Garter?

Answer 8

1421

Question 9

when did Henry VI become king?

Answer 9

31st August 1422

Question 10

when did the Duke of Suffolk (William de la Pole) become Steward of the Royal Household?

Answer 10

1433

Question 11

when was the Treaty of Arras?

Answer 11

1435

Question 12

when did John Duke of Bedford die?

Answer 12

1435

Question 13

when was the French reconquest of Paris?

Answer 13

April 1436

Question 14

when was Richard Duke of York first appointed English lieutenant of France?

Answer 14

1436-7

Question 15

when did Henry VI officially begin his ‘personal rule’ of England?

Answer 15

1437

Question 16

when was the agrarian crisis in Northern England?

Answer 16

1438-40

Question 17

when was Richard Duke of York appointed English Lieutenant of France for a second time?

Answer 17

1440-45

Question 18

when was Pontoise surrendered?

Answer 18

1442

Question 19

when did an expensive, but poorly led, expedition to conquer lands in Gascony led by John Beaufort (Duke of Somerset) end in total failure?

Answer 19

1443

Question 20

when did Richard Duke of York’s cash-strapped expedition to Dieppe end in failure?

Answer 20

1443

Question 21

when was the Truce of Tours?

Answer 21

1444

Question 22

when did Henry VI marry Margaret of Anjou?

Answer 22

April 1445

Question 23

when did Henry Beauchamp (Duke of Warwick) die?

Answer 23

1446

Question 24

when did Cardinal Beaufort die?

Answer 24

1447

Question 25

when did Humphrey of Gloucester die?

Answer 25

1447

Question 26

when did Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset (younger brother of John Beaufort), replace Richard of York as English Lieutenant in France?

Answer 26

1447-50

Question 27

when was Maine surrendered to France?

Answer 27

March 1448

Question 28

when did Edmund Beaufort become Duke of Somerset?

Answer 28

March 1448

Question 29

when were Rye and Winchelsea raided by the French?

Answer 29

March 1448

Question 30

when did England lose Normandy?

Answer 30

1449

Question 31

when did Francois de Surienne capture the Breton town of Fougeres?

Answer 31

29 March 1449

Question 32

when did French attacks begin on Normandy?

Answer 32

May 1449

Question 33

when did the truce agreed in the Truce of Tours end?

Answer 33

July 1449

Question 34

when was Rouen, the capital of Normandy, surrendered by Somerset (Edmund Beaufort)?

Answer 34

29th October 1449

Question 35

when was Bishop Adam Moleyns forced to resign from government?

Answer 35

November 1449