page_title: Timeline of Cornish history
section_title: 15th century
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of Cornish history / 2nd millennium / 15th century
caption_attribution_description: Commemorative plaque for Michael Joseph the Smith (An Gof) mounted on the north side of Blackheath common, south east London, near the south entrance to Greenwich Park. Taken by Chris Angove, October 2006
context_page_description: This timeline summarizes significant events in the History of Cornwall
context_section_description: 15th century: the emergence of a popular Cornish literature, centred on the religious-themed mystery plays (see Cornish literature).
  1415: Cornish archers present at the Battle of Agincourt 
  1455–1487: Wars of the Roses, the feud between the Courtenays and Bonvilles in Cornwall and Devon.
  1469–72: Rebuilding of St Petroc's Church, Bodmin
  1473–74: The siege of St Michael's Mount (30 September 1473 – February 1474). The last military threat to Edward IV's rule.
  1480s–1551: Sweating sickness
  1485: Polydore Vergil, an Italian cleric commissioned by King Henry VII to write a history of England, states that "The whole country of Britain is divided into four parts, whereof the one is inhabited by Englishmen, the other of Scots, the third of Welshmen, the fourth of Cornish people ... and which all differ among themselves either in tongue, either in manners, or else in laws and ordinances."
  1497: The Cornish Rebellion of 1497
  1497: Michael An Gof, Thomas Flamank and James Tuchet, 7th Baron Audley the leaders of the rebellion, are executed at Tyburn.
  1497:  Second Cornish Uprising of 1497 – the Cornish march on Exeter and Taunton before the pretender to the English throne Perkin Warbeck is captured at Beaulieu Abbey in Hampshire.
  1498: Plague
caption: Commemorative plaque in Cornish and English for Michael Joseph the Smith (An Gof) and Thomas Flamank mounted on the north side of Blackheath common, south east London, near the south entrance to Greenwich Park
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