Marriage of Anne Neville, younger daughter of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick (‘The Kingmaker”) and Anne Beauchamp, to Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales, at Amboise.
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Birth of Mary Stewart, Queen of Scots, at Linlithgow 
Palace. She was the daughter of James V, king of Scots, and Mary of Guise and their only surviving child. Her father died just six days after her birth.
Mary was executed on 8 February 1587 in the great hall of Fotheringhay.
(Photograph of Linlithgow Palace © Dorothea Preis)
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Birth of Henry VI of England at Windsor
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Edward, Earl of Warwick, son of George Duke of Clarence and Isabel Neville, is beheaded on Tower Green. He was the last legitimate male of the House of Plantagenet.
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Coronation of Elizabeth of York
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Death of Anne of York, the seventh child and fifth daughter of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville. She shares her death date with her aunt Margaret, duchess of Burgundy, and – if Perkin Warbeck was indeed Richard of York – her brother.
Anne was born on 2 November 1475. At not quite four years of age, she was betrothed to Philip (“the Handsome”), the son of Mary of Burgundy (her aunt’s step-daughter) and Maximilian of Austria. However, the plan was abandoned in 1482. Richard III undertook to find a suitable marriage for her (and her sisters) and after Richard’s death she took part in ceremonies at Henry VII court, whose queen was her sister Elizabeth.
On 4 February 1495 she married Thomas Howard, who would eventually become the third duke of Norfolk. He was the grandson of John Howard, an important supporter of Richard III. John fell at the battle of Bosworth, fighting for Richard. His son, Thomas (the father of Anne’s Thomas), had also fought for Richard, had been attainted, but managed to be restored to his title. His son’s marriage to a sister-in-law of Henry Tudor was obviously a great achievement in his family’s rehabilitation. Anne and Thomas had no children.
Reference: ODNB on ‘Howard, Thomas, third duke of Norfolk (1473–1554)’
The above picture shows the daughters of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville in a window in Canterbury Cathedral. Anne is the third from left. (picture obtained through Wikimedia Commons)
Dorothea Preis
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Margaret of York, Duchess of Burgundy, dies at Malines. She was a sister of Edward IV and Richard III. After Richard’s death she supported the Yorkist pretenders. She was on very good terms with her husband’s daughter and her family and had a successful and positive influence on Burgundian politics. She was a patron of William Caxton, who introduced the printing press to England.
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A young man identified by the Tudors as Perkin Warbeck, who claimed to be Richard of York, the younger son of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville, is executed for treason at the Tower.
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Birth of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, who became later known as ‘The Kingmaker’
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William Caxton produces Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres, one of the first books printed on a printing press in England.
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