Explore 95 historical events and records for England in 1381.
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Reacting to the introduction of the oppressive poll tax, which the king had imposed because not enough income had been collected the previous year, Tyler led a force of peasants in taking Canterbury, before advancing on to Blackheath, outside London
Reacting to the introduction of the oppressive poll tax, which the king had imposed because not enough income had been collected the previous year, Tyler led a force of peasants in taking Canterbury, before advancing on to Blackheath, outside London
Reacting to the introduction of the oppressive poll tax, which the king had imposed because not enough income had been collected the previous year, Tyler led a force of peasants in taking Canterbury, before advancing on to Blackheath, outside London
Reacting to the introduction of the oppressive poll tax, which the king had imposed because not enough income had been collected the previous year, Tyler led a force of peasants in taking Canterbury, before advancing on to Blackheath, outside London
Tyler then entered the city of London at the head of a peasant army estimated at numbering over 50,000 men. After crossing London Bridge without resistance, the rebels then gained entry to the Tower of London and captured Simon Sudbury, the unpopular Archbishop of Canterbury, before proceeding to behead him
French incursion reaches Newport on the Isle of Wight
Makes some unwise decisions on taxation that led to the Peasants Revolt in 1381, during which the rebels destroy his Savoy Palace in London
The rebels destroy the Savoy palace during subsequent rioting and killed the King's uncle
The peasants rise against the Abbey of St Albans & march on London under Jack Straw
After crossing London Bridge without resistance, the rebels then gained entry to the Tower of London and captured Simon Sudbury, the unpopular Archbishop of Canterbury, before proceeding to behead him
After crossing London Bridge without resistance, the rebels then gained entry to the Tower of London and captured Simon Sudbury, the unpopular Archbishop of Canterbury, before proceeding to behead him
Death of Edmund Mortimer, gives the House of York the claim to the English throne
Publication of "Confessio", open publication of this "heretical" work
Tries rebels of the Peasants revolt & sentences some of them to death
Appointed Warden of the Scottish Border
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