York Mystery Plays: timeline

John 1199 - 1216
1210 Clergy banned from acting onstage (under Innocent III)
1212 York granted self governance by King John
1215 Magna Carter; Fourth Lateran Council

Henry III 1216 - 1272
1264 Corpus Christi feast established by Urban IV

Edward I 1272 - 1307
1298 Edward I moves government to York (until 1304; Parliament continued to gather there until 1335)

Edward II 1307 - 1327
1318 Feast of Corpus Christi arrives in England
1319 Scottish attack
1323 Truce with Robert the Bruce

Edward III 1327 - 1377
1330 Black Death
1337-1453 Hundred Years' War
1349 Black Death recurs
1376 Early mention of plays
1381 Peasants' Revolt (uprising in York)

Richard II 1377 - 1399
1396 Chapter of Richard II (he promotes York to a county in its own right; visits York)
1398 (?) Richard sees the Mystery Plays performed at York

Henry IV 1399 - 1413
1412 Nicholas Blackburn is Lord Mayor of York

Henry V 1413 - 1422

Henry VI 1422 - 1461, 1470 - 1471

Edward IV 1461 - 1470, 1471 - 1483 
1463-77 Compilation of York Register
1472 York Minster is (finally) completed and consecrated
1455-85 Wars of the Roses
1476 Plays separated from Corpus Christi feast

Edward V 1483 - 1483

Richard III 1483 - 1485
1483 Richard sees the York Creed Play performed in the city

Henry VII 1485 - 1509
1486 & '87 Henry VII visits York

Henry VIII 1509 - 1547
1533 Henry VII marries Anne Boleyn 
1536 Pilgrimage of Grace
1539 York's Abbey dissolved
1545 Council of Trent
1547 Religious guilds/chantries dissolved

Edward VI 1547 - 1553
1548 Corpus Christi feast abolished
1549 Book of Common Prayer 

Mary 1553 - 1558

Elizabeth I 1558 - 1603
1564 Shakespeare born
1569 Mystery plays finally suppressed
1586 Margaret Clitherow ('the pearl of York') executed

George VI 1936 - 1952
1951 Festival of Britain (York Plays performed in St Mary's Abbey in the first large-scale production since the Middle Ages)

Elizabeth II 1952 - 
1951 - 1988 Mystery Plays staged periodically in the grounds of St Mary's Abbey
2000 Millennium Production of plays in York Minster
2012 Plays staged in grounds of St Mary's Abbey for first time since 1988
2014 Wagon production 
2016 Revival of the Millennium Production
2018 Scheduled wagon production of the Mystery Plays

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