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2 giorni fa · The Wars of the Roses, known at the time and in following centuries as the Civil Wars, were a series of civil wars fought over control of the English throne from 1455 to 1487. The wars were fought between supporters of the House of Lancaster and House of York , two rival cadet branches of the royal House of Plantagenet .
15 mag 2024 · Battles of Saint Albans, (May 22, 1455, and Feb. 17, 1461), battles during the English Wars of the Roses. The town of St. Albans, situated on the old Roman Watling Street and lying 20 miles (32 km) northwest of London, dominated the northern approaches to the capital.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
3 giorni fa · The loss of France led to discontent at home. Soon after the end of the war in 1453, the dynastic struggles of the Wars of the Roses (c. 1455–1485) began, involving the rival dynasties of the House of Lancaster and House of York.
22 mag 2024 · The Tudor family rose to power and started the Tudor period in the wake of the Wars of the Roses (1455–1487), which left the main House of Lancaster (with which the Tudors were aligned) extinct in the male line.
2 giorni fa · Beginning with the Renaissance, almost all popes since Nicholas V (1447–1455) pursued a coherent architectural and urban programme over four hundred years, aimed at making the city the artistic and cultural centre of the world.
6 giorni fa · Gutenberg Bible, the first complete book extant in the West and one of the earliest printed from movable type. It is named after its printer, Johannes Gutenberg, who completed it about 1455 working at Mainz, Germany. The number of copies originally printed is unknown; about 40 still exist.
1 giorno fa · Early life and first reign. Accession of Mehmed II in Edirne, 1451. Mehmed II was born on 30 March 1432, in Edirne, then the capital city of the Ottoman state. His father was Sultan Murad II (1404–1451) and his mother Hüma Hatun, a slave of uncertain origin.
