1450s in England
overview of England-related events during the 1450s
Events from the 1450s in England.
Incumbents
Monarch – Henry VI
Events
1450
9 January – Adam Moleyns, Bishop of Chichester and Lord Privy Seal is murdered in Portsmouth by discontented unpaid soldiers.
7 February – John de la Pole marries Lady Margaret Beaufort.
15 April – Hundred Years' War: French defeat the English at the Battle of Formigny.
2 May – execution of William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, while he is being sent into exile, being blamed for English losses in the Hundred Years' War.
6 June–12 July – Jack Cade's Rebellion: Jack Cade leads a rebellion in Kent and Sussex against war taxes. On 29 June, William Ayscough, Bishop of Salisbury and confessor to the King, is dragged from mass at Edington Priory in Wiltshire and murdered by rebels.
12 August – Hundred Years' War: Cherbourg surrenders to the French, allowing France to take control of all of Normandy.
September – Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York marches an army to London and attacks alleged traitors in the royal government.
Extension of Great Malvern Priory begins, with exceptional stained glass windows.
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