Peasants' Revolt: Tyler's men enter London
June 1381
Provoked by a flat poll tax, Kentish and Essex rebels under Wat Tyler swarmed across London Bridge, sacked the Savoy Palace, and met the fourteen-year-old Richard II at Mile End. He promised the abolition of serfdom. The next day at Smithfield, Tyler was killed, the promises rescinded, the leaders hanged.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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