The Tower falls — Sudbury beheaded
1381 · Event
While the king parleys at Mile End — granting charters of freedom with astonishing readiness — rebels walk into an undefended Tower of London and drag out Archbishop-Chancellor Sudbury and Treasurer Hales, the tax's architects, beheading them on Tower Hill. The mightiest fortress in England falls without a blow struck.
On these timelines: The Peasants' Revolt, England, Master, United Kingdom (combined)
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