Age of DiscoveryWar & Conflict Wars of the Roses 1455Notable The houses of Lancaster and York fight a series of civil wars for the English throne. Decades of conflict end with the rise of the Tudors. ▲ MattersSaveShareTrace roots Longest chain: The Big Bang → First stars ignite → Supernovae seed heavy elements → The Sun forms → Earth forms → First oceans → First life → Photosynthesis evolves → Great Oxidation Event → Complex cells (eukaryotes) → Multicellular life → First animals → Cambrian Explosion → First vertebrates → Jawed fish → Fish walk onto land → The amniotic egg → The Great Dying → Dinosaurs appear → Asteroid ends the dinosaurs → Early primates → Apes split from monkeys → Human line splits from chimpanzees → Walking upright → First stone tools → Genus Homo appears → Homo erectus → Control of fire → Habitual fire and cooking → Homo sapiens appears → Complex language → Natufian villages → Oldest known bread → Agriculture begins → Irrigation → Uruk and the first cities → Cylinder seals → Writing (cuneiform) → Akkadian Empire → Neo-Assyrian Empire → Persian Empire founded → Cyrus Cylinder → Return from exile and the Second Temple → Birth of Jesus (traditional date) → Jesus of Nazareth crucified → Paul spreads Christianity → Edict of Milan → Constantinople founded → Roman Empire permanently divides → Visigoths sack Rome → Fall of the Western Roman Empire → Feudalism → Hundred Years' War → Wars of the Roses Community notesLoading notes… Learn more ranked by votesDocumentbritannica.comThe beginning of the Wars of the Roses (Britannica) ↗Editor's pickBookDan JonesThe Wars of the Roses ↗Editor's pickVideoSearch on YouTubeWars of the Roses explained ↗Editor's pick