* Born in August or September 1387, at Monmouth Castle, Monmothshire, Wales.
*The second child of Henry of Bolingbroke and Mary de bohun.
*Mary de Bohun dies in 1394
*Henry becomes seriously ill in 1395
*Henry of Bolingbroke is banished in 1398
*Growing up, Henry likes music and reading. He plays the harp and gittern; he even takes his harp with him while campaigning in France.
*He is knighted in 1399 by Richard II while campaigning in Ireland
*1399, Henry Bolingbroke returns and deposes Richard II, becoming Henry IV
*Henry is created Earl of Chester, Duke of Cornwell, and Prince of Wales, October 15, 1399. Soon after, he becomes Duke of Lancaster and Duke of Aquitaine
*1400 and 1402, he helps his father in Wales, trying to suppress Owen Glyn Dwer
*1403, Henry IV married Joan of Navarre
*July 21, 1403, Henry helps put down the Percy rebellion at the Battle of Shrewsbury
*In 1412, he is suspected of plotting his father, after being dismissed from the King's Council in 1411.
*April 9, 1413, he is crowned Henry V at Westminster Abbey
*He reburies Richard II's body at Westminster Abbey
*January 1414, a band of religious radicals led by Sir John Oldcastle tries and fails to kidnap Henry V. Oldcastle remains at large for three years
*In 1415, Henry V puts down the Southhampton plot; a group of nobles wanted to replace Henry with Edmund Mortimer, earl of March
*August 11, 1415, Henry lays seige to Harfleur, rekindling the Hundred Year's War
*August 19, Harfleur surrenders, although many English soldiers have already died of disease.
*October 15, 1415, Henry wins the Battle of Agincourt, against 5-1 odds
*July 23, 1417, Henry leads another army to the continent
*In 1419, Henry accuses his stepmother Joan of Navarre of witchcraft and of killing Henry IV. He imprisons her and seizes her money
*January 19, 1419, Rouen falls
*Under the Treaty of Troyes in 1420, Henry marries Katherine of Valois, the French princess and is named heir to the French throne
*February 1421, Katherine crowned queen
*December 1421, birth of the future Henry VI
*1422, Henry releases Joan of Navarre and restores her money
*May 2, 1422, surrender of Meaux, Henry V's last victory. He gets dysentry, a soldier's disease, and retires to Paris with his wife and son. He sets up a regency government in Vincennes, creating his brother Humphrey the first Lord Protector, and dies shortly after
October 25, 1415, the British forces won, despite being sick, tired, and out-numbered. Henry broke the code of chivalry by ordering all of the French prisoners killed. The French had also broken the rules by killing the boys behind the British lines.
This victory paved the way to Paris.
In 1416, he was visited by Sigismund, the Holy Roman Emporer. This alliance helped end the Babylonian Captivity.
The French king offered her to Henry V in 1415, but he wanted more lands as part of her dowry. They married June 1420.
After Henry V's death, Katherine secretly married Owen Tudor.