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Contents
1 Events
2 Year in topics
3 Births
4 Deaths
Events
February 9
-
Wars of the Roses
:
Richard, Duke of York
dismissed as Protector
February 23
-
Johannes Gutenberg
prints the first
Bible
on a
printing press
May 22
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Wars of the Roses
:
First Battle of St Albans
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Richard, Duke of York
and his ally,
Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick
defeat the Lancastrians under
Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset
, who is killed. York captures King
Henry VI of England
and has himself appointed Constable of England.
Year in topics
1455 in art
Births
February 1
- King
John of Denmark
, Norway, and Sweden
March 3
- King
John II of Portugal
(†
1495
)
Jacobus Barbireau ,
Franco-Flemish
composer
Deaths
March 24
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Pope Nicholas V
Fra Angelico
, Italian painter
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