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27th May 1199: King John of England crowned at Westminster Abbey in London

27th May 2026
Tagged as: England, France, King John, Magna Carta, Monarchy, Plantagenet, Richard I, Richard the Lionheart

John ruled for seventeen years before contracting dysentery while in Kings Lynn, an illness from which he later died.

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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 2025
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: Richard III killed at the Battle of Bosworth

22nd August 2020
Tagged as: Battle, England, Monarchy, Plantagenet, Richard III, Tudor, War

On the 22^nd August 1485, King Richard III was killed at the Battle of Bosworth and the forces of Henry Tudor brought the Plantagenet dynasty to an end.

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27th May 1199: King John of England crowned at Westminster Abbey in London

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

22nd August 1485: Richard III killed at the Battle of Bosworth

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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

8th September 1941: Start of the Siege of Leningrad

7th September 1940: The Nazi German Luftwaffe launches The Blitz

6th September 1914: First Battle of the Marne begins with a French counter-offensive against the advancing German army

5th September 1698: Peter the Great of Russia imposes a tax on beards

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

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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