Timeline
for
Our Period of Interest

1391-1400

1391
1392
1393
1394	28 March	Opening of St. Mary's College, Oxford.
	7 June	Anne of Bohemia, wife of Richard II, dies.
1395
1396		Marriage of Richard II to isabella of France, daughter of King Charles VI. A twenty year truce was agreed upon, but the two monarchs were unable to conclude a peace. Many of the English nobility resent the loss of opportunity to plunder the natural richness of France.
1397	17 September	The Earls of Arundel and Warwick, and the Duke of Glouster are accused of treason.
	21 September	Execution of Richard, Earl of Arundel.
1398
1399		A son is born to the King of France, the future Charles VII
	27 July	The Duke of York allies himself with Henry Bolingbroke against Richard II.
	19 August	Richard is arrested by Henry Bolingbroke [Froissart's Chronicle Image] and abdicates the throne. [Froissart's Chronicle Image]
	13 October	Coronation of Henry Bolingbroke as King Henry IV.
1400		Owain Glyndwr leads an uprising or the men of Gwynned against Henry IV.
	14 February	Richard II is murdered in Pontefract Castle.
	25 October	Geoffrey Chaucer dies in London