* 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.

Of her Hindu Myths: A Sourcebook Translated from the Sanskrit, Indologist Richard Gombrich wrote: " Intellectually, it is a triumph ..." Gombrich called Doniger's Asceticism and Eroticism in the Mythology of Siva " learned and exciting ".

The fourth name was ( John ) Milton of Christ's College, followed by ( Richard ) Manningham of Peterhouse, who matriculated 16 October 1624.

A British writer, Richard Haestier, in a book, Dead Men Tell Tales, recalls that in the turmoil preceding the French Revolution the body of Henry 4,, who had died nearly 180 years earlier, was torn to pieces by a mob.

The maneuvers were held `` in secret '' after a regional seminar for the Minutemen, held in nearby Shiloh, Ill., had been broken up the previous day by deputy sheriffs, who had arrested regional leader Richard Lauchli of Collinsville, Ill., and seized four operative weapons, including a Browning machine gun, two Browning automatic rifles and an M-4 rifle.

Richard S. Allen is the authority for the statement that the northern section was probably roofed by 1810.

-- James P. Mitchell and Sen. Walter H. Jones R-Bergen, last night disagreed on the value of using as a campaign issue a remark by Richard J. Hughes, Democratic gubernatorial candidate, that the GOP is `` Campaigning on the carcass of Eisenhower Republicanism ''.

`` I think that all Americans will resent deeply the statements made about President Eisenhower by Richard J. Hughes.

Incumbent Richard Salter seeks re-election and is opposed by Donald Huffman for the five-year term.

Since Election Day, Vice President Richard Nixon had virtually retired -- by his own wish -- from public view.

At a reception for new members of Congress, Oregon Democrat Maurine Neuberger, taking the Senate seat held by her husband Richard until his death last March, got a brotherly buss from Democratic Elder Statesman Adlai Stevenson, U.S. Ambassador-designate to the U.N..

Last Saturday's interesting melange included Ernst Toch, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Richard Yardumian and a brief excerpt from a new `` space '' opera by the Swedish composer, Karl-Birger Blomdahl.

The black Fudo seemed to stare rigidly back at him and Richard's eyes were caught by the Fudo's in fascination, and then Richard was shocked as, all at once, flames shot out from the sharp features of Fudo's face and there was a terrible metallic scraping sound, as if the large statue were about to burst from some pressure within it.

The Afroasiatic language family was originally referred to as " Hamito-Semitic ", a term introduced in the 1860s by the German scholar Karl Richard Lepsius.

These Articles ( though no longer binding ) have had an influence on the ethos of the Communion, an ethos reinforced by their interpretation and expansion by such influential early theologians as Richard Hooker, Lancelot Andrewes, John Cosin, and others.

That evening, at a state dinner in Los Angeles, California, they are awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U. S. President Richard Nixon.

* 1971 – President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors.

Amathus still flourished and produced a distinguished patriarch of Alexandria, St. John the Merciful, as late as 606-616, and a ruined Byzantine church marks the site ; but it declined and was already almost deserted when Richard Plantagenet won Cyprus by a victory there over Isaac Comnenus in 1191.

After being expelled from Poitou by their overlord, Richard the Lion-hearted, for the murder of Patrick of Salisbury, 1st Earl of Salisbury, Amalric arrived in Palestine c. 1174, Guy possibly later.

Books 2 – 6 of the Itinerarium Regis Ricardi, a Latin prose narrative of the same events apparently compiled by Richard, a canon of Holy Trinity, London, are closely related to Ambroise's poem.

* Apollo by the numbers: A Statistical Reference by Richard W. Orloff ( NASA )

According to Richard I. Pervo, " Townsend's methodologically adventurous but ultimately cautious essay is another valuable lesson in the danger of establishing the date of Acts – or any work – by arguing for the earliest possible time of origin.

In 1979, the film was remade for CBS television by Delbert Mann, starring Richard Thomas of The Waltons as Paul Bäumer and Ernest Borgnine as Kat.

The brew, first described academically in the early 1950s by Harvard ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes, who found it employed for divinatory and healing purposes by the native peoples of Amazonian Colombia, is known by a number of different names ( see below ).