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22nd August 1485: King Richard III killed at the Battle of Bosworth as the forces of Henry Tudor bring the Plantagenet dynasty to an end

22nd August 2022
Tagged as: Battle of Bosworth, Bosworth, England, Henry Tudor, Henry VII, Lancaster, Leicester, Plantagenet, Richard III, Tudor, War of the Roses

The Stanley family surrounded and killed Richard III after the king chose to break ranks and target Henry Tudor himself.

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22nd May 1455: Wars of the Roses begin at the Battle of St Albans

22nd May 2021
Tagged as: Civil War, England, Lancaster, Monarchy, Plantagenet, York

The 22^nd May 1455 marked the start of the Wars of the Roses, when the First Battle of St Albans was fought between Richard, Duke of York, and King Henry VI.

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22nd August 1485: King Richard III killed at the Battle of Bosworth as the forces of Henry Tudor bring the Plantagenet dynasty to an end

22nd May 1455: Wars of the Roses begin at the Battle of St Albans

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

21st March 1921: The New Economic Policy introduced to the USSR by Vladimir Lenin

20th March 1602: The Dutch East India Company established

19th March 1962: Bob Dylan, the American singer-songwriter, releases his eponymous debut album

18th March 1834: Tolpuddle Martyrs sentenced to transportation to Australia

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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