1215 - 1500
From Magna Carta to Wars of the Roses
Timeline of some of the major events and milestones during the years 1215 to 1500. Read the background section to put these into context.
- 1215
- Magna Carta.
- 1237
- The first reference to Parliament.
- 1254
- First Parliament with local representatives.
- 1258
- Baronial reform movement.
- 1265
- Political opinions of the people of Peatling Magna.
- 1290
- Expulsion of the Jews.
- 1297
- Magna Carta reissued and recorded as a statute.
- 1302
- Confederation of farm workers at Barton-on-Humber in Lincolnshire.
- 1320
- Declaration of Arbroath.
- 1327
- Deposition of Edward II.
- c.1330
- Petition of the Nottingham Prisoners.
- 1348
- The black death.
- 1351
- Statute of Labourers.
- 1381
- The Peasants' Revolt.
- 1399
- Deposition of Richard II.
- 1404
- Rebellion of Owain Glyn Dwr.
- 1415
- Battle of Agincourt.
- 1430
- Freeholders able to vote in parliamentary elections.
- 1455-87
- Wars of the Roses.
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