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1420s in England

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Events from the 1420s in England.

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  • 1420
  • 21 May – Henry V of England and Charles VI of France sign the Treaty of Troyes, making Henry heir to the French throne.{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/174|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/174 174–175]}}
  • 2 June – Henry marries Catherine of Valois, Charles's daughter.
  • 17 November – Hundred Years' War: Melun surrenders to the English.{{cite book|last=Palmer|first=Alan|last2=Palmer|first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=119–122|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}
  • Henry's flagship, the Grace Dieu, makes her only known service voyage, across the Solent.{{cite web|url=http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/server.php?show=nav.3896|title=Grace Dieu 1420, Royal Navy|access-date=2007-10-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930043944/http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/server.php?show=nav.3896|archive-date=30 September 2007}}{{cite book|title=Southampton: an Illustrated History|first=Adrian|location=Horndean|publisher=Milestone Publications|last=Rance|year=1986|isbn=0-903852-95-0}}
  • 1421
  • 23 February – coronation of Catherine of Valois as Queen Consort.
  • 21 March: Hundred Years' War: English defeated by the French and Scottish at the Battle of Baugé.
  • Collegiate church licensed in Manchester, the origin of Manchester Cathedral.
  • 1422
  • 10 May – Hundred Years' War: Siege of Meaux – Meaux surrenders to the English.
  • 31 August – Henry VI becomes King of England aged nine months, following the death of his father Henry V. His uncle Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, acts as his regent in England.
  • 21 October – Henry VI is proclaimed King of France in Paris following the death of Charles VI under the terms of the Treaty of Troyes. His uncle John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, acts as his regent in France.
  • 30 October – Charles the dauphin defies the Treaty of Troyes to be declared Charles VII of France in Bourges.
  • 1423
  • April – Hundred Years' War: England allies with Burgundy and Brittany against France.
  • 31 July – Hundred Years' War: the English defeat the French and Scottish at the Battle of Cravant.
  • 1424
  • 5 April – James I of Scotland, having been detained at the English court since 1406, is ransomed and returns to take up his throne (having married English noblewoman Joan Beaufort on 2 February).
  • 17 August – Hundred Years' War: the English led by the Duke of Bedford defeat the French and Scottish at the Battle of Verneuil.
  • 16 October – Duke of Gloucester invades Hainault; Bishop Henry Beaufort takes control of government in England.
  • 1425
  • April – Duke of Gloucester abandons his failed invasion of Hainault.
  • 10 August – Hundred Years' War: Le Mans surrenders to the English.
  • 30 October – Henry Beaufort tries to occupy London.
  • 1426
  • 6 March – Hundred Years' War: the English defeat the French at the Battle of St. James at Avranches.
  • 12 March – following the "Parliament of Bats" at Leicester Castle, Henry Beaufort resigns as Lord Chancellor and leaves the country, being replaced by John Kemp.
  • 1427
  • 13 October – Lincoln College, Oxford, founded by Richard Fleming, Bishop of Lincoln.
  • 1428
  • 12 October – Hundred Years' War: English commence the Siege of Orléans.
  • Henry Beaufort, now a Cardinal, returns to England and preaches a crusade against the Hussites.
  • Earliest likely date for marriage of Catherine of Valois, widow of Henry V, to Welsh courtier Owen Tudor (contrary to a recently passed statute probibiting remarriage of a dowager queen), thus establishing the House of Tudor.{{cite ODNB|last=Griffiths|first=R. A.|year=2004|id=27797|title=Tudor, Owen [Owain ap Maredudd ap Tudur]}}
  • 1429
  • 12 February – Hundred Years' War: at the Battle of the Herrings, English forces under Sir John Fastolf defend a supply convoy carrying rations to the army of William de la Pole, 4th Earl of Suffolk at Orléans from attack by the Comte de Clermont and John Stuart.
  • 8 May – Hundred Years' War: the French under Joan of Arc lift the Siege of Orléans.
  • 11–12 June – Hundred Years' War: the French defeat the English at the Battle of Jargeau.
  • 15 June – Hundred Years' War: the French defeat the English at the Battle of Meung-sur-Loire.
  • 16–17 June – Hundred Years' War: the French defeat the English at the Battle of Beaugency.
  • 18 June – Hundred Years' War: the French defeat the English at the Battle of Patay.
  • 6 November – coronation of King Henry VI.{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}}

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