THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY—EDWARD III AND RICHARD II

1327 Edward III accedes to the throne

1337 Beginning of Hundred Years’ War

1340 Battle of Sluys—English naval victory

1346 English victory at Crecy

1348 Black Death arrives in England

1351 First Statute of Laborers

1356 English victory at Poitiers; French king John II captured

1360 Treaty of Bretigny gives Aquitaine to England

1367 Black Prince invades Castile; Battle of Najera

1376 Death of Black Prince

“Good Parliament” attempts to purge royal household

1377 Death of Edward III; accession of his grandson Richard II at age nine

1378 Beginning of Great Schism (competing Popes, until 1415-18)

1381 June uprising (“Peasant’s Revolt”)

1382 Blackfriars council—some of John Wyclif’s opinions declared heretical

1386 “Wonderful Parliament” exiles Richard’s chancellor

1388 “Merciless Parliament,” prodded by Lords Appellant (Arundel, Gloucester, Warwick, Bolingbroke, Mowbray), purges Richard’s household

1394 Death of Queen Anne

1397 Richard’s “Revenge Parliament”—Gloucester murdered, Arundel executed, Warwick and Archbishop of Canterbury exiled

1398 Henry Bolingbroke and Thomas Mowbray exiled

1399 Death of John of Gaunt; Bolingbroke returns and deposes Richard, ascends the throne as Henry IV

1400 Richard probably murdered in prison