England-related events during the 1450s
Events from the 1450s in England.
- 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.[1]
- 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.[1]
- 6 June–12 July – Jack Cade's Rebellion: Jack Cade leads a rebellion in Kent and Sussex against war taxes.[1] 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.[2]
- September – Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York marches an army to London and attacks alleged traitors in the royal government.[2]
- Extension of Great Malvern Priory begins, with exceptional stained glass windows.[2]
- 1451
- June – at the insistence of Parliament, Henry cancels all land grants made during his reign.[2]
- 30 June – Hundred Years' War: Bordeaux surrenders to the French.[2]
- 21 August – Hundred Years' War: Bayonne surrenders to the French, ending English rule in Gascony.[2]
- September – the Duke of York refuses a royal summons to answer for breaking the peace.[2]
- 1452
- 1453
- 1454
- 1455
- 1456
- 25 February – Richard of York dismissed as regent for the second time.[2]
- April – Calais mutiny ends when wool merchants agree to back the garrison's pay.[2]
- 17 August – Court moves to Coventry; Kenilworth Castle strengthened as the King's principal residence.[2]
- 1457
- 1458
- 1459
- 1450
- 1451
- 1452
- 1453
- 1455
- 1456
- 1457
- 1458
- 1459
- 1450
- 9 January – Adam Moleyns, Bishop of Chichester (murdered)
- 2 May – William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, military leader (born 1396; murdered)
- 10 June – William Tresham, lawyer, Speaker of the House of Commons (born 1404; murdered)
- 4 July – James Fiennes, 1st Baron Saye and Sele, soldier and politician (born c. 1395; murdered)
- 28 July – Cecily Neville, Duchess of Warwick (born c. 1424)
- 27 August – Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr, politician (born 1395)
- 1451
- 1452
- 1453
- 1454
- 1455
- 1456
- 1459