Mary Ann Bernal

A watercolour recreation of the Wars of the Roses.  What Caused the War? In the simplest terms, the war began because Richard, Duke of...

History Extra Myth 1: Richard was a murderer Shakespeare’s famous play,  Richard III, summarises Richard’s alleged murder victims in ...

History Extra Henry VIII. Portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1540. The painting has the inscription 'Anno Aetatis suae XLIX...

History Extra Lancelot fights for Guinevere in a medieval illumination. Was William Marshal also ensnared in a dangerous love triangle? ...

May 17 1220 King Henry III of England Crowned for a second time. Henry, who had been crowned at age nine four years earlier, underwent ...

May 8 1660 Parliament proclaimed Charles II king of England, restoring the monarchy after more than a decade.

April 27 1296 Battle of Dunbar: The Scots were defeated by Edward I of England. This battle was the only significant field action i...

April 3 1043 Edward the Confessor was crowned King of England. Elected by popular acclamation, Edward (known as "the Confessor...

History Extra Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh wave from the famous balcony at Buckingham Palace after the Queen's coronati...

February 7 1301 Edward, eldest son of Edward I was made the first English Prince of Wales, a tradition continued to this day.  

February 4  1194 King Richard I of England was freed by Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor, after being ransomed. Richard did return to En...

February 1 1327 Edward III was crowned King of England, but the country was ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mo...

January 25 1533 Henry VIII of England secretly married his second wife Anne Boleyn.

January 6  1017 Canute I crowned King of England. He was also King Canute II of Denmark and King Canute of Norway, and because of the e...

December 22 69 Roman Emperor Vitellius was killed in a street battle in Rome by soldiers of Vespasian, who succeeded Vitellius as empero...

December 20   860 King Ethelbald of Wessex died     1334 Benedict XII was elected pope. The third pope to reside at Avignon, B...

December 19 1075 - Edith of Wessex, wife of Edward the Confessor of England, died.   1187 Clement III became Pope. The fall of ...

December 16  1431 Henry VI of England was crowned King of France at Notre Dame in Paris. Though young Henry had been proclaimed king ...

Ancient Origins Archaeologists are excavating the ruins of a 480-year-old luxuriously decorated banquet house of King Henry VIII of Engl...

December 6 1196 the Northern Dutch coast was flooded; known as the Saint-Nicolas Flood, resulted in widespread damage and death.  ...