OVERVIEW:  TIME AND SPACE

Timeline of Selected Events Click on year links to follow annual timelines; click on other links to follow actors and events. 1455--Battle of St. Albans, Richard of York and Henry VI.  Beginning of the Wars of the Roses. 1456 1457 1458 1459--Battle of Blore Heath; Battle of Ludford Bridge 1460--Battle of Northampton; Battle of Wakefield 1461--Battle of Mortimer's Cross; Second Battle of St. Albans; Battle of Ferrybridge; Battle of Towton 1462 1463 1464--Battle of Hedgeley Moor; Battle of Hexham 1465 1466 1467 1468 1469--Battle of Edgcoat 1470--Battle of Losecoat Field 1471--Battle of Barnet; Battle of Tewkesbury 1472 1473 1474 1475 1476 1477 1478 1479 1480 1481 1482 1483 1484 1485--Battle of Bosworth 1486 1487--Battle of Stoke Field

 

The pages above contain numerous links to important participants and to electronic references, timelines, and bibliographies.
In addition to the hundreds mounted there, the following link contains a few extra references not found elsewhere.

HUMAN  INTERACTIONS CAUSE CHANGE

The animated map below depicts 15 battles of the Wars of the Roses.  There is not clear consensus as to how many battles there were and where, exactly they were.  Thus, locations are approximate in many cases.  Download Google Earth (free) and then download the file of rose placemarks; drive around across virtual battlefields.  The height of the placemarks represents time:  the taller the placemark the later the battle was fought.  There is a substantial amount of information associated with the Google Earth file.  The animated sequence of screenshots, below, is simply a beginning to entice the reader to participate in a fully interactive manner.

Screen capture of Google Earth file showing placemarks according to battle victory:  white rose represents a Yorkist victory, red rose represents a Lancastrian victory, and Tudor rose represents a Tudor (Henry VII, House of Lancaster) victory.  The height of the rose placemark represents the date:  earlier is lower, later is higher.

Animation of battles; follow the battle names along the left side as the rose markers enter the scene.  Temporal spacing between successive animation frames reflects temporal spacing between battles:  1 year between battles is represented by 1 second between frames.

Click here to see a larger, high resolution image Click here to download the .kmz file for Google Earth--view rose placemarks directly in Google Earth and drive around the virtual scene; read links associated with the placemarks.

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