1452

• 2ND OCTOBER Richard is born at Fotheringhay Castle, Northamptonshire. The son of Richard Plantagenet Duke of York and Cecily Neville.

1455

• 22ND MAY Battle of First Battle Of St Albans, Richard father is commander for the Yorkist side. Henry VI commander for the Lancastrian side.

      Result: Decisive Yorkist Victory

1458

• FEBRUARY Richard’s  sister Elizabeth of York married John De La Pole, 2nd duke of Suffolk, the grandson of Thomas Chaucer

1459

• 12TH OCTOBER The Battle of Ludford Bridge, Richard’s father and his cousin Earl of Richard 16th earl Warwick are commanders. on the Yorkist side. Henry VI of England is commander for the Lancastrian side

   .    Result Lancastrian Victory

• Richard and his older brother George (later Duke of Clarence), were placed in the custody of the Duchess of Buckingham, and the archbishop of Canterbury. when his father and the Neville’s were forced to flee to Ludlow.

1460

• 10th JULY The Battle of Northampton, his brother Edward was a commander and his cousin Richard 16th earl Warwick. Henry VI of England is commander for the Lancastrian side

         Result Yorkist Victory

• JULY: Richard and his siblings with his mother Cecily move to London & lived with the lawyer John Paston

• 30TH DECEMBER: Richards father, Richard Plantagenet is dead. killed. Richards brother Edmund was also killed.

      Result Decisive Lancastrian Victory

1461

• 2ND FEBRUARY The Battle of Mortimer's Cross, Richards brother Edward is a commander. for the Yorkists. And Owen and Jasper Tudor commanders for the Lancastrian side decisive

        Result Yorkist Victory

•  17TH FEBRUARY The Second Battle of St Albans. Richards cousin Richard 16th earl Warwick is commander for the Yorkist side and Margaret of Anjou for the Lancastrian side.

       Result Lancastrian Victory

• 4TH MARCH: Henry VI of England is deposed, Richards brother Edward IV as king of England.

• 28th MARCH The Battle of Ferry-bridge, Richards cousin Richard 16th earl Warwick, is commander for the Yorkist side     

     Result Indecisive

• Richard began and attended his knighthood training at Middleham at least till 1465

• 29TH MARCH The Battle of Towton, Richard brother Edward, and his cousin Richard 16th earl of Warwick both commanders for the Yorkist side.

        Result Decisive Yorkist Victory

• 28TH JUNE: The coronation Edward IV the fourth of his name. Richard is given the title Duke of Gloucester at the coronation. Edward was crowned by Thomas Bourchier Archbishop of Canterbury.

• 1ST NOVEMBER: Richard is given the Duchy of Gloucester and invested a knight of the garter.

1462

• Richard is made Lord High Admiral

• 12TH AUGUST Richard was awarded large estates in Northern England, including the lordships of Richmond in Yorkshire, and Pembroke in Wales

• 2ND OCTOBER Richard is made constable of Gloucester and Corfe castles and admiral of England, Ireland and Aquitaine

1464

• 1ST MAY: The secret marriage between Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville

• Richard is appointed the sole commissioner of array for the western counties

1465

• 26TH MAY The coronation of Elizabeth Woodville as queen consort of England. Elizabeth was crowned by Thomas Bourchier Archbishop of Canterbury

1467

• Richard's first solo expedition to the eastern counties

1468

• 3RD JULY: Richards sister Margaret of York married Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy

1469

• 12TH JULY: Richards brother George married Isabel Neville, the daughter of Richard 16th earl Warwick their cousin

• 17TH OCTOBER Richard is made constable of England

1470

• 12TH MARCH The Battle Of Losecoat Field. Richard brother is commander for the Yorkist side: 

       Result Yorkist Victory

• APRIL Richard visited Pontefract

• 10TH SEPTEMBER: Warden of the west march on the Scottish borders

• 3RD  OCTOBER Edward IV England is deposed and Henry VI is back king of England

• Richard and his brother Edward take refuge in Flanders, part of Burgundy.

1471

• 11TH APRIL: Henry VI of England is deposed again, and Edward IV is king of England again.

• 14TH APRIL The Battle of Barnet: Richard and his brother Edward are commanders at this battle, their cousin Richard 16th Earl of Warwick is commander on the Lancastrian side now.    

        Result Yorkist Victory Richard 16th Earl Warwick Is Killed

•   4TH MAY The Battle of Tewkesbury Richard and his brother are commanders. Margaret of Anjou and her son Edward of Westminster, are commanders for the Lancastrian Result; Decisive Yorkist Victory Edward of Westminster killed at this battle, and  Margaret is taken, prisoner.

• 4TH MAY the Battle of Tewkesbury Richard and his brother are commanders. Margaret of Anjou and her son Edward of Westminster, are commanders for the Lancastrian side.

• 18TH MAY: Richard was named great chamberlain and lord high admiral of England.

• 21ST MAY Henry VI of England has died in the Tower of London

• Richard is made lord high constable& warden of the west march on the Scottish borders again.

1472

• 12TH JULY: Richard married Anne Neville.

• Richards sister Anne of York divorces her husband Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter

1473

• JUNE Richard persuaded his mother-in-law lady Anne de Beauchamp, to leave sanctuary and come to live under his protection at Middleham,

• OCTOBER Richard visited Pontefract

• DECEMBER: Edward of Middleham Richard son is born at Middleham, Wensleydale

1474

• MARCH Richard visited Pontefract

• Sister Anne of York married for a second time to Thomas St. Leger

1476

• 14TH JANUARY Richards sister Anne of York, Duchess of Exeter died.

• 22ND DECEMBER: Isabel Neville died, his brother Georges wife

1478

• 15TH JANUARY Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, Richard’s nephew  aged four, is married to five-year-old Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk

• 15TH FEBRUARY: Richards son Edward of Middleham, was given the title Earl of Salisbury

• 18TH FEBRUARY: Richards brother George, is executed for treason, and soon after the event, the rumour was that he had been drowned in a butt of malmsey wine

1480

• 12TH MAY Richard is appointed lieutenant-general of the north

• NOVEMBER King Edward IV  and council formally declared war on Scotland

1482

• JULY-AUGUST Capture Of Berwick, Anglo-Scottish Wars: Richard, invades Scotland and captures Edinburgh

1483

• 9TH APRIL Edward IV England is dead, his son Edward V is king of England

• Edward V is made to reside in the Tower of London.

• 29TH APRIL: Richard dined with earl rivers and Edward’s of England half-brother, Richard Grey

• 30TH APRIL: Richard is made lord protector to Edward V England

• 19TH MAY Edward V of England is in the tower of London, in preparation for his presumed coronation

• 13TH JUNE important council meeting held at the Tower of London: Richard accuses William Hastings and two other council members of having committed treason by conspiring against his life with the Woodville’s, with Hastings’s mistress Jane Shore, William Hasting was executed immediately after meeting on the same day.

• Jane Shore, the mistress of not only the late Edward IV and then lord Hastings and Thomas Grey, was charged with conspiracy, and was sentenced to a walk of shame, accordingly went in her kirtle through the streets on Sunday with a taper in her hand, attracting a lot of male attention all along the way. Jane Shore and Richard did have clash personalities and dislike for each other was mutual. After her public penitence, jane shore resided in Ludgate prison.

• 16TH JUNE: Richard of Shrewsbury. Edward V  brother joins him in the Tower of London

• 26TH JUNE Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, and Richard grey are executed at Pontefract castle.

• 25TH JUNE Edward V of England has been declared illegitimate. Richard is now king of England, and his son Edward of Middleham is titled Duke of Cornwall.

• 6TH JULY: The coronation of Richard as king of England the third of his name. This was a  joint coronation with his wife Anne Neville, done under Thomas Bourcheir, Archbishop of Canterbury. The joint coronation of Richard and Anne was a first in 175 years. John Howard had been granted the offices of Earl Marshall and High Steward of England, making him the man traditionally positioned to oversee the coronation. King Richard himself walked enrobed in a sumptuous purple velvet gown, a bishop at each shoulder and his train born without humility by the Duke of Buckingham. Anne walked behind with Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond holding her train. Richard’s sister Elizabeth, Duchess of Suffolk walked alone in state followed by a further twenty ladies of the nobility and a host of knights and squires.

• 19TH JULY Richards son Edward of Middleham, is now titled lord lieutenant of Ireland

• 24TH AUGUST Richards son is now titled Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales

• There has been no sightings of the princes in the tower. princes have disappeared.

• 8TH SEPTEMBER A special ceremony in York minster celebrating his son being the prince of Wales and earl of Chester, as his son was too ill to be part of Richards coronation

• OCTOBER:  After a failed but significant uprising, of collection of uprisings, in England and parts of wales against Richard as king. the plot revolved around Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, who had become distant from Richard, and began backing  the exiled Henry Tudor (the future King Henry VII)

• 2ND NOVEMBER The execution of Duke of Buckingham Henry Stafford

1484

• JANUARY: Richard strips Elizabeth Woodville. of all the lands given to her during Edward IV Reign

• 1ST MARCH After Richard publicly swore an oath that Elizabeth, daughters would not be harmed or molested and that they would not be imprisoned in the Tower of London or in any other prison, Elizabeth Woodville came out of sanctuary the family returned to court, apparently reconciled to Richard.

• 9TH APRIL: Richards son Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales died at Sheriff Hutton

• Richard founded the college of arms

• Nicolas Von Poppelau, spent ten days in Richard's household who was a  German traveller.

• 21ST SEPTEMBER Treaty of Nottingham: A three-year truce between the kingdoms of England and Scotland is signed

1485

• 16TH MARCH: Anne Neville  Richards wife died

• 30TH MARCH Richard sent Elizabeth of York away from court to Sheriff Hutton

• AUGUST 5TH -7TH The first outbreak of sweating sickness in England begins.

• 7TH AUGUST Henry Tudor landed in at Milford Haven

•  22ND AUGUST   Richard III of England is dead. killed at the Battle of Bosworth 

     Result Tudor Victory

 

Richard III of England was buried in Leicester Cathedral                  (re-interred, on  26th March 2015)