The late Middle Ages: 1200-1500

The table below summarises some of the general historic events of the late Middle Ages.

Specific Brickell related activities and more local (Dorset, Kent, Cheshire) events will be progressively added to this table with links to further pages that provide more detailed information.

Date	Historic event	Brickell activity
1199	King John comes to the throne of England.
1215	Magna Carta.
1216	Death of John: accession of Henry III.
1240	Llywelyn the Great dies.
1255	Llywelyn ap Gruffyd takes power in Wales.
1258	Commune of England created.
1264	Battle of Lewes; Simon de Montfort defeats Henry III.
1265	De Montfort and the Confederates defeated at the battle of Evesham..
1272	Henry III dies; accession of Edward I
1277	Edward I defeats Llywelyn.
1282	Llywelyn killed in the second invasion of Wales.
1294	War with France.
1301	The first English Prince of Wales proclaimed.
1306	Robert Bruce becomes King of Scotland.
1307	Death of Edward I: accession of Edward II..
1314	Scottish victory at the battle of Bannockburn
1321-2	Civil War in England.
1327	Edward II murdered: accession of Edward III.
1337	Hundred Years War begins.
1346	English victory at the Battle of Crecy.
1348-9	Black Death comes to England, then Wales and Scotland.
1356	English victory at the battle of Poitiers.
1377	Death of Edward III: accession of Richard II.
1381	The Peasants' Revolt.
1399	Henry IV deposes Richard II, who dies the following year.
1400-8	Rebellion of Owain Glyn Dwr.
1413	Death of Henry IV: accession of Henry V.
1415	English victory at the battle of Agincourt.
1419-20	English conquest of Normandy.
1420	Anglo-French? Treat of Troyes.
1422	Death of Henry V: accession of Henry VI.
1429	Joan of Arc leads the French in the relief of the siege of Orleans.
1437		John Brickles, a draper, dies in London.
1449-50	Normandy overrun by the French.
By 1453	All English lands in France except Calais and the the Channel Islands conquered by the French.
1455-85	Dynastic struggle between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians (the "Wars of the Roses").
1461	Henry VI deposed: accession of Edward IV.
1470-1	Henry VI restored to the throne but is defeated by Edward at the battle of Tewkesbury (1471) and murdered.
1477	William Caxton's first printed book.
1483	Death of Edward IV. Princes in the Tower murdered: Richard III made king.
1485	Death of Richard III at the battle of Bosworth: accession of Henry VII.