Richard II Abdicates: First English Monarch to Give Up the Crown
Richard II stepped down from the throne, triggering a direct transfer of power that installed Henry Bolingbroke as King Henry IV and ended the Plantagenet line's unbroken rule. This forced abdication established a dangerous precedent for deposing English monarchs through parliamentary action rather than divine right or battlefield victory.
September 29, 1399
627 years ago
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