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The 1480s: 1480–1489
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Richard III took the throne in 1483 and lost it at Bosworth Field in 1485, ending the Wars of the Roses and starting the Tudors. Ivan III stopped paying tribute to the Mongols after the standoff at the Ugra in 1480, and Spanish monarchs funded Columbus while finishing Granada.
Bosworth in 1485 still divides historians over whether Richard murdered his nephews. Philippa Gregory's The White Princess follows the aftermath from the Tudor side, and Josephine Tey's The Daughter of Time has a modern detective re-investigating Richard's reputation from a hospital bed. Open the 1480s on the StoryTerra map and explore its stories by place.
6 famous stories set in the 1480s
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Browse 13 books and 2 movies set in the 1480s (1480–1489).
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Paris France 1482. Frollo Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda a young Romani girl. The hunchback Quasimodo Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame lives in peace…
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Paris 1482. Today is the festival of the fools taking place like each year in the square outside Cathedral Notre Dame. Among jugglers and other entertainers Esmeralda a sensuous gypsy performs a bewitching dance in…
The White Princess
Caught between loyalties, the mother of the Tudors must choose between the red rose and the white.When Henry Tudor picks up the crown of England from the mud of Bosworth field, he knows he must marry the princess of the…
Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table
Le Morte d'Arthur is an exciting, magical interpretation of the legend of King ArthurThe next elegant edition in the Knickerbocker Classic series, Le Morte d'Arthur is unabridged and complete. Originally published in…
The Daughter of Time
Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant is intrigued by a portrait of Richard III. Could such a sensitive face actually belong to a heinous villain — a king who killed his brother's children to secure his crown? Grant seeks…
Sent
Jonah and Chip have barely adjusted to the discovery that they are actually the missing children of history when a time purist named JB sends them, along with Katherine and Alex, hurtling back in time to 1483. JB…
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