AP Lang Project By Deep Sakhrani 1490 Literary Analysis Period: 1492 to 1510 Native Americans don't have any of their myths or stories written down, everything is spoken 1493 Christopher Columbus publishes a journal describing the North American continent and its people 1595 WIlliam Shakespeare writes "Romeo and Juliet" 1605 Spain's Miguel de Cervantes publishes 1st part of his novel Don Quixote 1605 William Shakespeare writes "King Lear" and "Macbeth" 1615 Miguel de Cervantes publishes the 2nd part of Don Quixote 1643 Anne Bradstreet writes "To My Dear and Loving Husband" 1651 Thomas Hobbes writes "Leviathan" during the English Civil War 1726 Jonathan Swift writes, "Gulliver's Travels" 1771 Benjamin Franklin begins to write his Autobiography 1773 Phillis Wheatley publishes poems on various Subjects, Religious and Moral 1776 Thomas Paine's, "Common Sense" was published