* 1485 – The Battle of Bosworth Field, the death of Richard III and the end of the House of Plantagenet.

* Richard III Society: history society, which contains photos and articles that present several competing theories about the location of the battle

Statutes forbidding it and other sports were enacted in the reigns of Edward III, Richard II and other monarchs.

Set in 1485 at the end of the British Middle Ages, the series is written as a secret history which contends that King Richard III won the Battle of Bosworth Field, only to be mistaken for someone else and murdered, and is succeeded by Richard IV ( Brian Blessed ), one of the Princes in the Tower.

This has been put forward by J. Richard Gott III, James E. Gunn, David N. Schramm, and Beatrice Tinsley, who said that asking what occurred before the Big Bang is like asking what is north of the North Pole.

In 1695, William III of England replaced the corrupt governor Benjamin Fletcher, known for accepting bribes of one hundred dollars to allow illegal trading of pirate loot, with Richard Coote, Earl of Bellomont.

Ken Olsen was not supportive of this project, so de Castro left DEC along with another hardware engineer, Richard Sogge, and a software engineer, Henry Burkhardt III, to found Data General ( DG ) in 1968.

Edward V and his 10-year old brother Richard were imprisoned in the Tower of London and their uncle made himself king as Richard III.

Judging by the number of reprints, Hamlet appears to have been Shakespeare's fourth most popular play during his lifetime — only Henry IV Part 1, Richard III and Pericles eclipsed it.

House of Cards draws heavily from Shakespeare's Macbeth and Richard III, both of which examine issues of power, ambition and corruption.

Richardson said he based his performance of the scheming Francis Urquhart on the way Shakespeare portrayed Richard III.

* 1483 – Richard III is crowned King of England.

At age 17, Booth made his stage debut on August 14, 1855, in the supporting role of the Earl of Richmond in Richard III at Baltimore's Charles Street Theatre.

In January, he played the title role in Richard III in St. Louis and then made his Chicago debut.

In May 1862, he made his Boston debut, playing nightly at the Boston Museum in Richard III ( May 12, 15, and 23 ), Romeo and Juliet ( May 13 ), The Robbers ( May 14 and 21 ), Hamlet ( May 16 ), The Apostate ( May 19 ), The Stranger ( May 20 ), and The Lady of Lyons ( May 22 ).

Following his performance of Richard III on May 12, the Boston Transcript < nowiki >' s </ nowiki > review the next day called Booth " the most promising young actor on the American stage ".

Back in Washington in April, he played the title roles in Hamlet and Richard III, one of his favorites.

A 13th-century depiction of John and his legitimate children, ( l to r ) Henry III of England | Henry, Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall | Richard, Isabella of England | Isabella, Eleanor of Leicester | Eleanor, and Joan of England, Queen consort of Scotland | Joan

Sam Mendes directed Spacey in a Shakespeare's Richard III.

Thus Richard Blackmore's epics Prince Arthur ( 1695 ) and King Arthur ( 1697 ) feature Arthur as an allegory for the struggles of William III against James II.

Richard III of England increased this to ten for every tun.

Like Richard III, but without that character's perversely appealing exuberance, Macbeth wades through blood until his inevitable fall.

* 1912 – Richard C. Miller, American photographer ( d. 2010 )

Eric was brought up in the company of his mother and sisters, and apart from a brief visit in the summer of 1907, they did not see the husband and father Richard Blair until 1912.

* 1912 – Richard Brooks, American director, writer, and producer ( d. 1992 )

** Richard III ( 1912 film ), a silent film starring Frederick Warde

Diaghilev commissioned ballet music from composers such as Nikolai Tcherepnin ( Narcisse et Echo, 1911 ), Claude Debussy ( Jeux, 1913 ), Maurice Ravel ( Daphnis et Chloé, 1912 ), Erik Satie ( Parade, 1917 ), Manuel de Falla ( El Sombrero de Tres Picos, 1917 ), Richard Strauss ( Josephslegende, 1914 ), Sergei Prokofiev ( Ala and Lolly, rejected by Diaghilev and turned into the Scythian Suite ; Chout, 1915 revised 1920 ; Le pas d ' acier, 1926 ; and The Prodigal Son, 1929 ), Ottorino Respighi ( La Boutique fantasque, 1918 ), Francis Poulenc ( Les biches, 1923 ) and others.

** Richard Brooks, American film director ( b. 1912 )

It was at Lincoln's Inn that in 1882 Asquith met Richard Haldane, whom he would appoint as Lord Chancellor in 1912.

* Pat Nixon, the wife of Richard M. Nixon, and the former First Lady of the United States, was born in Ely on March 16, 1912.

* Richard Nixon ( 1913 – 1994 ) and Pat Nixon ( 1912 – 1993 ), 37th President of the United States and his wife.

* Sir Richard Doll ( 1912 – 2005 ), epidemiologist

Early on, even with the birth of future sculptor, Richard F. George ( 1865 – September 28, 1912 ), the family was near starvation.

The popular premier Richard McBride kept the Liberals to one seat in 1909 and then managed to shut them out in the 1912 election.

In 1996, a pristine print of Richard III ( 1912 ), starring Frederick Warde in the title role, was discovered by a private collector and donated to the American Film Institute.

* Richard Barzen Murrow ( 1912 – 2002 ), designer

In 1912 the world's first youth hostel was created by Richard Schirrmann inside the castle.

Similarly, the 1912 American adaptation, directed by James Keane and André Calmettes, and starring Frederick Warde as Richard, opened with the same two scenes ; the murder of Prince Edward and the murder of Henry VI.

* Shelley, Frances, and Richard Edgcumbe ( 1912 ).

* 1912: Richard I Before Jerusalem.

In attempting to keep their creditors at bay, the family moved around the country, going to Herne Bay in Kent, then to Swanage in Dorset, and on to Bournemouth ( which was then in Hampshire ), where Archibald ’ s brother, Richard Francis Pechey ( 1872 – 1963 ), had become the Vicar of Holy Trinity Church in 1912.

* The Bird of Paradise ( 1912 play ), written by Richard Walton Tully

* Richard Vesey Hamilton ( 1829 – 1912 ), British admiral and First Naval Lord

* remodeling of Richard Upjohn's Grace Church, Providence, Rhode Island, 1912

Other early feature films include a version of Oliver Twist ( 1912 ), Richard III ( 1912 ) and From the Manger to the Cross ( 1912 ).