* 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.

* Richard II of Gaeta, consul and duke of Gaeta

His son, Atenulf II, was made to submit to the Norman Prince Richard I of Capua in 1062, when Gaeta was captured by Jordan Drengot.

These dukes, usually Italianate Normans, ruled Gaeta with some level of independence until the death of Richard of Caleno in 1140.

In the 13th century it went to Richard V dell ' Aquila, duke of Gaeta.

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 youngest of three siblings, she had two older brothers: Richard ( who died before her birth ) and Paul, several years older.

Beatty's other brothers were Charles Harold Longfield ( 1870 – 1917 ) who served with distinction in the South Africa wars before dying from complications after losing an arm in Flanders, Richard George ( 1882 – 1915 ) who died on active service in India, William Vandeleur Schruder ( 1873 – 1935 ) who became an army Major and Newmarket horse trainer, and one sister Kathleen Roma ( 1875 –).

Elizabeth ’ s grandfather, owner of the family engineering works, Richard Garrett & Sons, had died in 1837, leaving the business to his eldest son, Elizabeth ’ s uncle.

Orwell spent time in Wallington and Southwold working on a Dickens essay and it was in July 1939 that Orwell's father, Richard Blair, died.

Henry added the Norman kingdom of Sicily to his domains, held English king Richard the Lionheart captive and aimed to establish a hereditary monarchy, when he died in 1197.

After he died in 1658, his son Richard Cromwell succeeded him in the office but he was forced to abdicate within a year.

William Hearst died in 1951, at age 88, and was succeeded by Richard E. Berlin as chief executive officer ; Berlin had served as president of the company since 1943.

John's elder brothers William, Henry and Geoffrey died young ; by the time Richard I became king in 1189, John was a potential heir to the throne.

Despite this, after Richard died in 1199, John was proclaimed king of England, and came to an agreement with Philip II of France to recognise John's possession of the continental Angevin lands at the peace treaty of Le Goulet in 1200.

Henry II moved in support of Richard, and Henry the Young King died from dysentery at the end of the campaign.

The society also lost several major figures over the period: Richard Lovell Edgeworth ceased regular involvement in the society's activities when he returned to Ireland in 1782, John Whitehurst died in London in 1788, and Thomas Day died the following year.

In 1724, his father took Sterne to Roger's wealthy brother, Richard, so that Sterne could attend Hipperholme Grammar School near Halifax ; Sterne never saw his father again as Roger was ordered to Jamaica where he died of a fever in 1731.

Should Richard die without an heir, the territory would return to Philip, and if Philip died without an heir, those lands would be considered a part of Normandy.

* Richard III of Capua ( died 10 June 1120 )

Richard was only 9 years old when his father died.

When his brother Edward IV died in April 1483, Richard was named Lord Protector of the realm for Edward's son and successor, the 12-year-old King Edward V. As the new king travelled to London from Ludlow, Richard met and escorted him to London where he was lodged in the Tower of London.

Richard died during the Battle of Bosworth Field, the last English king to die in battle ( and the only English king to do so on English soil since Harold II at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 ).

Richard and Anne had one son, born in 1473, Edward of Middleham, who died ( April 1484 ) not long after being created Prince of Wales.

Despite his having died at the age of 32, Richard is often depicted as being considerably older: Basil Rathbone, in the Tower of London, and Peter Cook were both 46 when they played him, Laurence Olivier was 47 ( in his 1955 film ), Vincent Price was 51, Ian McKellen was 56 as was Pacino in his 1996 film ( although Pacino was 39 when he played him on Broadway in 1979, and Olivier was 37 when he played him on stage in 1944 ).

Two days later Henry II died in Chinon, and Richard succeeded him as King of England, Duke of Normandy, and Count of Anjou.

Richard died on 6 April 1199 in the arms of his mother ; it was later said that " As the day was closing, he ended his earthly day.