Richard
came to the throne under strange and suspicious circumstances. He
had been appointed Regent for Edward V in 1483, as his brother had
willed, but in the same year he accepted
Parliament’s offer of the crown following a suggestion by the Bishop
of Bath and Wells that Edward’s parents had not been properly
married and therefore an illegitimate child could not inherit the
crown. The argument ran that before Edward IV|
1483 |
Richard III is crowned king on the grounds that Edward V is illegitimate. The young king and his brother, Richard, Duke of York, captives in the Tower of London, are never seen again.
The painter Giovanni Bellini is appointed painter of the Venetian Republic. During his long and successful career he makes Venice an art centre to rival that of Florence and Rome.
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1484 |
The Florentine artist Botticelli paints his Birth of Venus. This, together with his Primavera (Allegory of Spring), 1478 (E4), captures the very essence and spirit of the Renaissance.
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1485 |
Ivan III rebuilds the Kremlin in Moscow, modernising many of its buildings, adding new ones, and surrounding the fortress with a crenellated brick wall more than a mile long.
Richard III is defeated and killed at the Battle of Bosworth. Henry Tudor is crowned king as Henry VII, first of the royal Tudor line.
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