Timeline of Cornish History - 1400

1400

• 15th century: the emergence of a popular Cornish literature, centred on the religious-themed mystery plays (see Cornish literature).
• 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
• 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, were 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 was captured at Beaulieu Abbey in Hampshire.
• 1498 - Plague.