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22nd May 1455: Wars of the Roses begin at the First Battle of St Albans between Richard, Duke of York, and King Henry VI

22nd May 2023
Tagged as: Duke of York, England, Henry VI, Lancaster, London, Monarchy, Richard, St Albans, Wars of the Roses, York

The Wars of the Roses were fought between the Houses of Lancaster and York, both of whom had claims to the English throne

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16th March 1190: The Jewish population of York massacred in a pogrom

16th March 2022
Tagged as: Anti-Semitism, Crusade, England, Judaism, Massacre, Money, Richard I, Richard the Lionheart, York

Anti-Semitic attacks spread across England and reached York in March 1190.

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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 May 1455: Wars of the Roses begin at the First Battle of St Albans between Richard, Duke of York, and King Henry VI

16th March 1190: The Jewish population of York massacred in a pogrom

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

7th June 1520: Henry VIII and Francis I meet at the Field of Cloth of Gold

6th June 1944: D-Day landings launched by the Allied forces of the Second World War in Normandy

5th June 1883: First Orient Express train departs Paris

4th June 1913: Suffragette Emily Wilding Davison knocked down by a racehorse at the Epsom Derby after she stepped onto the track

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

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

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