Margaret Beaufort
1443–1509 · Person
Mother of Henry VII at thirteen, dynastic schemer through the Wars of the Roses, and matriarch-founder of the Tudor dynasty.
On these timelines: Women in history, England, United Kingdom (combined), Master, People
More from Women in history
- Second-wave feminism (1963)
- US women win the vote (19th Amendment) (1920)
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759)
- Seneca Falls Convention (1848)
- Indira Gandhi (1917)
- Woolf's A Room of One's Own (1929)
- Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen (1791)
- The Feminine Mystique published (1963)
Around 1443
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452)
- Columbus reaches the Americas (1492)
- Fall of Constantinople (1453)
- Michelangelo (1475)
- Gutenberg's printing press (1440)
- Martin Luther (1483)
- Renaissance (1400)
- Wars of the Roses (1455)
- Mehmed II (1432)
- Gutenberg prints the 42-line Bible (1455)