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1425
| 1425 • Uprising by the Maltese against Don Gonsalvo Monroy, count of Malta. The insurgents repel an attempt by the Viceroy of Sicily to bring the island to order. The Maltese do not submit to Catalan-Aragonese rule until the Magna Charta Libertatis granting them their new rights is delivered to them. |
1436
Age: 11y
eventSucceeds his father. In his youth he was in the household of John de Mowbray, duke of Norfolk, and was drawn into Norfolk's conflicts with William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1436 • The Incorporated Guild of Smiths is founded in Newcastle upon Tyne. |
1442
Sep 29
Age: 17y
marriageKatherine Moleyns |
| 1442 • Jelena Balšić completes writing the Gorički zbornik manuscripts at her church of St. Mary on the island of Beška in the Serbian Despotate. |
1461
Mar 29
Age: 36y
knightedBy King Edward VI. In the same year he was appointed Constable of Norwich and Colchester castles, and became part of the royal household as one of the King's carvers, 'the start of a service to the house of York which was to last for the rest of his life'. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1461 • The Duke of York seizes London and proclaims himself King Edward IV of England. |
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Age: 38y
1463
Age: 38y
residenceIn the area around Stoke by Nayland, Howard held some sixteen manors, seven of which the King had granted him in 1462. After 1463 he purchased a number of others manors, including six forfeited by John de Vere of Oxford, the son of his cousin, Elizabeth Howard. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1463 • French poet François Villon receives a reprieve from death by hanging, and banished from Paris; his further life is undocumented. |
1467
Age: 42y
titleBecame a knight of the body. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1467 • Some Papal abbreviators are arrested and tortured on the orders of Pope Paul II, among them Filippo Buonaccorsi. |
1468
Sep
Age: 43y
occupationAppointed Treasurer of the Royal Household. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1468 • The Great Council of the Republic of Venice attempts to curb the power of the Council of Ten through legislation restricting them to acting on emergency matters. |
1472
Apr 24
Age: 47y
titleAdmitted to the Order of the Garter. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1472 • Publication of Pietro d'Abano's Conciliator differentiarum quae inter philosophos et medicos versantur and De venenis eorumque remediis. |
1485
Aug 22
Age: 60y
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deathHe was slain in the battle of Bosworth Field along with his friend and patron King Richard III. It was the last significant battle in the War of Roses, a civil war between the houses and York and Lancaster. 1 Source ⇓ |