1490s in England

1490s in England

Events from the 1490s in England.

Incumbents

Monarch - Henry VII of England

Events

* 1490
** Construction begins on the tower of Magdalene College, Oxford.
* 1491
** November - Perkin Warbeck claims to be the son of King Edward IV of England, and begins a campaign to take the throne.
** 21 December - Truce of Coldstream secures a 5-year peace with Scotland.
* 1492
** October - English army besieges Boulogne-sur-Mer.
** 3 November - Peace of Etaples signed between England and France ends French support for the pretender Perkin Warbeck. All English held territory in France with the exception of Calais is returned to France.cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=189–192]
* 1493
** Sanctions imposed on Burgundy for supporting Warbeck.
* 1494
** May - Emperor Maximilian I recognises Warbeck as rightful King of England.
* 1495
** 16 February - William Stanley, the Lord Chamberlain, executed for supporting Warbeck.
** October
*** Parliament passes the Treason Act 1495, still in force as of 2008. [cite web|url=http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/content.aspx?activeTextDocId=1517738|title=Treason Act 1495, The UK Statute Law Database|accessdate=2007-12-01]
*** Beggars Act 1495 requires vagabonds to be punished.
* 1496
** 24 February - Henry VII signs the commercial treaty Intercursus Magnus with Venice, Florence and the villes of the Hanse and Pays-Bas.
** 5 March - King Henry VII issues letters patern to John Cabot and his sons, authorising them to discover unknown lands.
** September - James IV of Scotland invades Northumberland in support of the pretender Perkin Warbeck.
** Jesus College, Cambridge founded.
* 1497
** May
*** war taxes incite the Cornish Rebellion of 1497.
*** John Cabot sets sail from Bristol on his ship the "Matthew" looking for a route to the west.
** 17 June - Cornish rebels defeated at the Battle of Blackheath.
** 10 September - Perkin Warbeck proclaimed as King in Bodmin.
** 30 September - Truce of Ayton establishes 7-year peace with Scotland.
** 5 October - Warbeck captured in Hampshire.
* 1498
** May
*** Merchant Adventurers granted a trade monopoly with the Netherlands.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 135-138|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
*** Cabot begins his second voyage to the Americas; never heard of again.
* 1499
** 23 November - Perkin Warbeck executed .
** 28 November - Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick exxecuted as a co-conspirator with Warbeck.

Births

* 1490
** Thomas Elyot, diplomat and scholar (died 1546)
** Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich, Lord Chancellor (died 1567)
** John Taverner, composer and organist (died 1545)
* 1491
** 28 June — King Henry VIII of England (died 1547)
* 1492
** 2 July - Elizabeth Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England (died 1495)
** Edward Edward Wotton, physician and zoologist (died 1552)
** Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland (died 1543)
* 1494
** John Sutton, 3rd Baron Dudley (died 1554)
** William Tyndale, religious reformer (died 1536)
* 1495
** 21 November - John Bale, churchman (died 1563)
** Robert Barnes, reformer and martyr (died 1540)
** Thomas Wharton, 1st Baron Wharton (died 1568)
* 1496
** 28 March - Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England and queen of Louis XII of France (died 1533)
** Edward Foxe, English churchman (died 1538)
** Anthony St Leger, Lord Deputy of Ireland (died 1559)
** Henry Somerset, 2nd Earl of Worcester (died 1549)
* 1497
** Anne Stanhope, noblewoman (died 1587)
** John Heywood, playwright (died 1580)

Deaths

* 1490
** 22 May - Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent (born 1416)
* 1491
** 6 March — Richard Woodville, 3rd Earl Rivers (year of birth unknown)
** John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk (born 1442)
* 1492
** 7 June - Elizabeth Woodville, Queen of Edward IV of England (born 1437)
** Anne Neville, 16th Countess of Warwick, (born 1426)
* 1493
** James Blount, soldier (year of birth unknown)
* 1495
** 31 May - Cecily Neville, mother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (born 1415)
** 14 September - Elizabeth Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England (born 1492)
** 21 December - Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford (born c. 1431)
* 1497
** 24 June
*** Thomas Flamank, Cornish lawyer (executed) (year of birth unknown)
*** Michael An Gof, Cornish rebel (executed) (year of birth unknown)
* 1498
** 24 March - Edward Stafford, 2nd Earl of Wiltshire (born 1470)
* 1499
** 23 November - Perkin Warbeck, Flemish imposter to the English throne (born c. 1474)
** 28 November - Edward, Earl of Warwick, last male member of the House of York (born 1475)

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