November - Perkin Warbeck begins a campaign to take the English throne with a landing in Ireland.
21 December - Truce of Coldstream secures a 5-year peace with Scotland.
1492
October - English army besieges Boulogne-sur-Mer.
3 November - Peace of Etaples signed between England and France, ending French support for the pretender Perkin Warbeck. All English-held territory in France with the exception of Calais is returned to France.
John Lydgate's translation The Fall of Princes is published posthumously.
1495
16 February - William Stanley, the Lord Chamberlain, executed for supporting Warbeck.
3 July - Perkin Warbeck's troops land at Deal, Kent, in support of his claim to the English crown, backed by Margaret of York, Duchess of Burgundy. They are routed before Warbeck himself can disembark, and he retreats to Ireland and then to Scotland.
John Alcock's Mons Perfectionis is published, the first printed sermon by an English bishop.
Possible date - First performance of the earliest known full-length secular play wholly in English, Fulgens and Lucrece by Henry Medwall, the first English vernacular playwright known by name, perhaps at Lambeth Palace in London.
Cabot leaves Bristol on his second voyage to the Americas; he is never to be seen again.
Summer - The final Welsh revolt of the medieval era breaks out in Meirionydd, North Wales; Harlech Castle is captured by the rebels before the revolt is suppressed.
