* 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.

* 1922 – Richard Blackwell, American actor, journalist, fashion designer, and critic ( d. 2008 )

In 2008, he provided a foreword for the first book collection of Richard Thompson's Cul De Sac comic strip.

* Holmes, Richard ( 2008 ).

* Xiaoming Wang, Richard H. Tedford, Mauricio Antón, Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History, New York: Columbia University Press, 2008 ; ISBN 978-0-231-13528-3

* 1914 – Richard Widmark, American actor ( d. 2008 )

Richard Vigilante Books, 2008, pp. 194 – 198.

# 2008 – present Richard Baker

* 1943 – Richard Wright, English keyboard player and songwriter ( Pink Floyd ) ( d. 2008 )

* Audubon: Early Drawings ( Richard Rhodes, Scott V. Edwards, Leslie A. Morris ) ( Harvard University Press and Houghton Library 2008 ) ISBN

* 2008 – Richard Widmark, American actor ( b. 1914 )

Residential building by Richard Rogers, part of the Daimler complex at Potsdamer Platz, in 2008.

** Richard III ( 2008 film )

* Richard the Young King to Be by Josephine Wilkinson ( Amberley, 2008 ) ( ISBN 978-1-84868-513-0 )

* Richard Wilson, Don't Get Fooled Again-The skeptic's guide to life, Icon Books, London, 2008.

* Burton, Richard F ( 2008 ). The Book of The Sword.

The highest-ranking Greens ever elected in the nation were: John Eder, a member of the Maine House of Representatives until his defeat in November 2006 ; Audie Bock, elected to the California State Assembly in 1999 but switched her registration to Independent seven months later running as an independent in the 2000 election ; and Richard Carroll, elected to the Arkansas House of Representatives in 2008 but switched parties to become a Democrat five months after his election.

* Dennis, Richard ( 2008 ).

* July 28 – Richard Wright, British musician ( Pink Floyd ) ( d. 2008 )

Dolenz participated in the 2008 – 09 season of CMT's " Gone Country ," competing against fellow celebrities Sheila E ( who eventually won ), Taylor Dayne, George Clinton, and Richard Grieco.

Juggling in space was demonstrated by Greg Chamitoff and Richard Garriott while Garriott was visiting the International Space Station as a Spaceflight Participant in October 2008.

* " Amass Appeal " Essay by Richard Rubin, AARP Magazine, March / April 2008.

Microsatellites are distributed throughout the genome ( Richard 2008 ).

The first U. S. Green elected to a state legislature was Audie Bock in 1999, to the California State Assembly, followed by John Eder to the Maine House of Representatives in 2002 and 2004 and Richard Carroll to the Arkansas House of Representatives in 2008.

A less sympathetic picture is given in Sandra Worth's Lady of the Roses ( 2008 ) as well as in Marjorie Bowen's 1929 novel Dickon where she is portrayed as a schemer who is at the very heart of the various conspiracies against Richard III.