Battle of Sevenoaks 1450
Who Fought
Kentish rebels under Jack Cade
royal loyalist troops including Sir Humphrey Stafford and William Stafford
History & Significance
Year 1450 (MCDL) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.
January 19 – The Jingtai Era begins in China under the Emperor Daizong, and the Zhengtong Era ends after 14 years.
January 19 – King James II of Scotland gives royal assent to numerous acts passed by the Scottish Parliament in 1449, including the Leases Act 1449 ("Of takis of landis for termes and takis of wedset (mortgaged) landis eftir the oute quyting of the lande"), the Coinage Act, the Parties Summoned to King's Council Act and the Statute Law Revision Act ("Persons chosyn of the thre estatis til examyn the actis of parliamentis and general counsallis").
February 7 – John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk, marries Lady Margaret Beaufort.
February 26 – Francesco Sforza enters Milan after a siege, becoming Duke of the city-state, and founding a dynasty that will rule Milan for a century.
March 10 – Colonization of Terceira Island by Portugal begins as Dom Henrique, om Navigador (known in English accounds as "Prince Henry the Navigator" assigns jurisdiction to Jácome de Bruges.
March 11 – The First Margrave War comes to an end in Germany as Albrecht III Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg, is defeated by Nuremberg troops at the battle of Pillenreuther Reiher.
March 15 – English commander Thomas Kyriell and 2,500 soldiers land at Cherbourg in English-occupied France, where they join another 1,800 English troops recruited by the Duke of Somerset from the garrisons at Bayeux, Caen and Vire.
March 25 – Francesco I Sforza becomes the Duke of Milan, restoring the Duchy of Milan and bringing an end to the Golden Ambrosian Republic that had governed Milan.
April 8 – At the Korean capital of Hanseong, Munjong of Joseon becomes the new King of Korea upon the death of his father, Sejong the Great.
April 15 – The Battle of Formigny takes place as French troops under the Comte de Clermont defeat an English army under Sir Thomas Kyriel and Sir Matthew Gough, which was attempting to relieve Caen
May 8 – Jack Cade's Rebellion: Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI of England.
May 9 – Abdal-Latif Mirza, a Timurid dynasty monarch, is assassinated.
May 13 – Charles VIII of Sweden, also serving as Carl I of Norway, is declared deposed from the latter throne, in favor of Christian I of Denmark.
June 5 – French troops under Guy de Richemont besiege Caen in English-occupied Normandy in France, attacking the fortress commanded by Edmund Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset.
June 8 – The 17th English Parliament of King Henry VI closes. Royal assent is given to several acts, including a seven-year prohibition of importation of products from the Dutch provinces of Holland, Zealand and Brabant "until English cloth may be sold there."
The ground they fought on
The site of Battle of Sevenoaks 1450 lies on Lower Greensand Group, bedrock that formed in the Albian. The rock here is sandstone and mudstone.
Sir Humphrey Stafford of Grafton and his cousin William Stafford of Southwick were killed on 7 June 1450 at Sevenoaks in Kent during Jack Cade's Rebellion, representing a significant blow to royal efforts to suppress the Kentish uprising against Henry VI.
- Sir Humphrey Stafford of Grafton and William Stafford of Southwick killed
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