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Wars of the Roses

  • House of YorkEdmund of Langley, the fourth surviving son of Edward III and Philippa of Hainault, received the title Earl of Cambridge in 1362.
  • Wars of the RosesIn 1376, the heir apparent Edward, Duke of Cornwall, died. His younger brother Lionel, Duke of Clarence, had passed away in 1368.
  • Tudor roseHenry VII took the crown of England from Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485. This event ended what historians later called the Wars of the…
  • Sweating sicknessHenry VII arrived in London on the 28th of August 1485. The disease broke out there on the 19th of September that same year.