Events from the 1410s in England.

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• Monarch – Henry IV (to 20 March 1413), then Henry V

• 1410
  • Owain Glyndŵr continues his rebellion against England,^[1] although a costly English raid into rebel-held Shropshire is believed to have led to the capture of a number of rebel leaders.
• 1411
  • 30 November – Henry IV dismisses Henry, Prince of Wales and his allies from the royal council.^[1]
• 1412
  • May – England allies with the Armagnac party in return for help in regaining control of Aquitaine.^[1]
  • Owain Glyndŵr cuts through the King's men and captures, later ransoming, a leading Welsh supporter of King Henry's, Dafydd Gam, in an ambush in Brecon. However, this is the last time that Owain is seen by his enemies.
• 1413
  • 21 March – Henry V becomes King following the death of his father Henry IV^[2] in the "Jerusalem" chamber of Westminster Abbey.
  • 9 April – coronation of King Henry V^[1] at Westminster Abbey in a snowstorm.
  • December – body of Richard II of England re-interred at Westminster Abbey as a gesture of reconciliation.^[1]
• 1414
  • 9 January – a Lollard rebellion in London is suppressed.^[2]
  • 27 April – Henry Chichele enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
  • August – Henry V claims the throne of France.^[1]
  • Durham School is founded as a grammar school by Thomas Langley, Prince-Bishop of Durham.
• 1415
  • 5 August – Southampton Plot to depose Henry V in favour of Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March fails and the ringleaders are executed.^[1]
  • 13 August – Hundred Years' War: Henry V begins an invasion of Normandy.^[2]
  • 22 September – Hundred Years' War: English capture Harfleur.^[1]
  • 25 October – Hundred Years' War: Henry V is victorious over the French at the Battle of Agincourt.^[2]
  • Henry V offers a pardon to the fugitive Welsh rebel leader Owain Glyndŵr, but it is refused.^[2]
  • Twickenham Monastery founded; the last new English monastery of the Middle Ages.^[1]
• 1416
  • 1 May – Hundred Years' War: French fleet blockades Harfleur.^[1]
  • 15 August – Hundred Years' War: Harfleur relieved, following a naval battle in the estuary of the Seine.^[1]
• 1417
  • 23 July – Hundred Years' War: Henry V leads an army of 12,000 men on a new invasion of Normandy.^[1]
  • 12 August – Henry V begins writing his official correspondence in English, marking the beginning of its restoration as the official language of Government in England.^[1]
  • 8 September – Hundred Years' War: English capture Caen.^[1]
  • 14 December – Lollard leader John Oldcastle captured and executed.^[1]
  • John Capgrave writes Chronicle, a history of England since the creation.^[1][3]
• 1418
  • 18 February – Hundred Years' War: English capture Falaise.^[1]
  • 30 July – Hundred Years' War: English Siege of Rouen begins.^[1]
  • 22 August – Hundred Years' War: English capture Cherbourg.^[1]
• 1419
  • 19 January – Hundred Years' War: Rouen falls to the English, who take control of Normandy.^[1]
  • 30 July – Hundred Years' War: English capture Pontoise.^[1]
  • 13 October – Richard Whittington is elected Lord Mayor of London for the last time.
  • 25 December – Hundred Years' War: Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, allies with England against France.^[1]

• 1411
  • 21 September – Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, claimant to the throne (died 1460)
• 1415
  • 3 May – Cecily Neville, mother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (died 1495)
  • 12 September – John de Mowbray, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, Duke (died 1461)
  • William Worcester, topographer, antiquary and chronicler (died c. 1482)
• 1416
  • 26 October – Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent (died 1490)
• 1417
  • 23 November – William FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, politician (died 1487)

• 1410
  • 16 March – John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset (born c. 1373)
  • 13 September – Isabella of Valois, queen consort of England (born 1389, France)
  • John Badby, martyr (year of birth unknown)
  • John Gower, poet (born c. 1330)
• 1411
  • September – Anne de Mortimer, Countess of Cambridge (born 1390)
• 1412
  • Walter Froucester, Abbot of Gloucester
• 1413
  • 25 January – Maud de Ufford, Countess of Oxford (born 1345)
  • 20 March – King Henry IV (born 1367)
• 1414
  • 19 February – Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1353)
  • 1 September – William de Ros, 6th Baron de Ros, Lord Treasurer (born 1369)
• 1415
  • 19 July – Philippa of Lancaster, queen of John I of Portugal (plague) (born 1359)
  • 5 August – Southampton Plot ringleaders (executed)
    • Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge (born c. 1375)
    • Thomas Grey (born 1384)
    • Henry Scrope, 3rd Baron Scrope of Masham (born c. 1376)
  • August or September – Michael de la Pole, 2nd Earl of Suffolk (killed in battle) (born 1367)
  • 13 October – Thomas FitzAlan, 12th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (born 1381)
  • 25 October (Battle of Agincourt)
    • Michael de la Pole, 3rd Earl of Suffolk (born 1394)
    • Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York (born 1373)
• 1417
  • 4 September – Robert Hallam, Bishop of Salisbury (year of birth unknown)
  • 14 December – John Oldcastle, Lollard leader (year of birth unknown)
• 1418
  • 25 November – Henry Beaufort, 2nd Earl of Somerset (born 1401)
• 1419
  • 3 September – Edmund Stafford, Bishop of Exeter and Lord Chancellor of England (born 1344)
  • 17 December – William Gascoigne, Chief Justice (born c. 1350)