1485-1660

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  • Richard III is killed in battle
    Oct 1, 1485

    Richard III is killed in battle

    was King of England for two years, from 1483 until his death in 1485 during the Battle of Bosworth Field.
  • Leonardo da vinci paints mona lisa
    Oct 1, 1503

    Leonardo da vinci paints mona lisa

    best known most viewed piece of art
  • Oct 1, 1516

    Thomas More's Utopia is published

    In 1516 the first edition of More's Utopia was published; it criticized many aspects of life in contemporary Europe and established a whole new type of writing and outlook on life ("utopianism"). Much of what More said in Utopia was ironical and not intended to be taken at face value, but just how much remains unclear.
  • Oct 1, 1543

    With the suprmecy Act, Henry VIII proclaims himself head of church

    Henry declares himself supreme head of the church
  • Oct 1, 1558

    Elizabeth I becomes queen of england

    Elizabeth was quenn of England and Ireland from november 17 1558 until her death
  • Apr 23, 1564

    William Shakespear, the bardof avon, is born

    william shakespear is born in 1564

  • Globe theatreis built in london

    The 1598 decision to build the famous playhouse came about as the answer to many of The Lord Chamberlain’s Men’s problems. With the end of a lease on the Blackfriars Theatre in 1597, The Lord Chamberlain’s Men (Shakespeare, J & R Burbage, G Byran, John Hemminges, Augustine Phillips, Thomas Pope and Will Sly) had no where else to readily perform their plays.
  • Shakespear writes king lear and macbeth

    Shakespear writes king lear and macbeth

    Shakespeare wrote King Lear around 1605 - 1606.

  • shakespears sonnets are oulished

  • Kings James Bible is published

    Kings James Bible is published

    the first copy of the kings james bible is produced. 6 billion issues have been published

  • the mayflower lands at plymoth rock, Massachusets

    The mayflower transported english and dutch separatists to plymoth rock

  • newspapers are first published

    Corante: or, Newes from Italy, Germany, Hungarie, Spaine and France was published by the printer Nathaniel Butter in London. The earliest of the seven surviving copies is dated September 24, 1621, but it is thought that this single page news sheet began publication earlier in 1621.

  • Puritan Commonwealth ends; monarchy is restored with Charles II

    On 4 April 1660, Charles II issued the Declaration of Breda, which made known the conditions of his acceptance of the crown of England. Monck organised the Convention Parliament, which met for the first time on 25 April. On 8 May it proclaimed that King Charles II had been the lawful monarch since the execution of Charles I in January 1649

  • John Milton begins Paradise Lost

    Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. It was originally published in 1667 in ten books, with a total of over ten thousand individual lines of verse.

  • Christopher columbus reaches the Americas

    Christopher Columbus and his party reach the Americas in 1942