March 6, 1457King James II decreed in an Act of Parliament, that golf be utterly cried down and not used
May 4, 1471Wars of the Roses, The Battle of Tewkesbury, Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward, Prince of Wales
December 7, 1487James FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Desmond is murdered at the instigation of his brother, John
May 24, 1487Lambert Simnel (aged 10), the Yorkist pretender to the English throne, is brought to Ireland
June 27, 1488Sir Richard Edgecombe is sent to Ireland with power to grant pardons; he lands at Kinsale on this date
June 11, 1488Battle of Sauchieburn during which King James III died attempting to subdue a group of rebel barons.
Ireland
Ireland