1390s in England

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Events from the 1390s in England.

Incumbents[]

  • MonarchRichard II (to 30 September 1399), then Henry IV

Events[]

  • 1399
    • 3 February – death of John of Gaunt, uncle of King Richard II and father of Henry Bolingbroke.[1]
    • 18 March – Richard II cancels the legal documents allowing the exiled Henry Bolingbroke to inherit his father's land.[1]
    • 23 April – St George's Day in England is first officially celebrated as a holiday.[5]
    • 29 May – Richard travels to Ireland to suppress a rebellion.[1]
    • 4 July – Henry Bolingbroke, with exiled former archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Arundel as an advisor, returns to England and begins a military campaign to reclaim his confiscated land.[4]
    • 19 August – having returned from Ireland, Richard is taken prisoner by Henry's followers at Conway Castle.[1]
    • 29 September – abdication of Richard II, the first for an English monarch.[6]
    • 30 September – Parliament accepts Henry Bolingbroke as the new king, [1] the first since the Norman Conquest whose mother tongue is English rather than French.[7]
    • 13 October – coronation of Henry IV of England.[6]
    • 21 October – Thomas Arundel is restored as Archbishop of Canterbury, replacing Roger Walden.
    • First definite record of beer (rather than ale) being brewed in England, at Great Yarmouth by Peter Woutersone, a "Ducheman".[8]

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References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 112–115. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
  2. ^ Gudavičius, Edvardas (1999). Lietuvos istorija. Nuo seniausių laikų iki 1569 metų (in Lithuanian). Vilnius: Lietuvos rašytojų sąjungos leidykla. pp. 173–174. ISBN 9986-39-112-1.
  3. ^ "The hammer-beam roof". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2012-03-20.
  4. ^ a b Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 170–171. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  5. ^ Groom, Nick (2007). The Union Jack: the story of the British flag (Paperback ed.). London: Atlantic Books. p. 59. ISBN 978-1-84354-337-4.
  6. ^ a b Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
  7. ^ Janvrin, Isabelle; Rawlinson, Catherine (2016). The French in London: From William the Conqueror to Charles de Gaulle. Translated by Emily Read. Wilmington Square Books. p. 16. ISBN 978-1-908524-65-2.
  8. ^ Pajic, Milan (2019). "'Ale for an Englishman is a natural drink': the Dutch and the origins of beer brewing in late medieval England". Journal of Medieval History. 45: 285–300.
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