ENGLISH PROJECT

By jennasnider
  • Jan 1, 1490

    Christopher Columbus lands in the Bahamas

  • Jan 1, 1499

    20,000 die in London Plague

  • Jan 1, 1508

    Michealangelo begins painting ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

  • Jan 1, 1513

    Juan Ponce de Leon lands on the Florida Peninsula

  • Jan 2, 1513

    Vasco Nunez de Balboa reaches the Pacific Ocean

  • Jan 1, 1519

    Magellan begins voyage around the world

  • Jan 1, 1519

    Chocolate introduced to Europe

  • Jan 1, 1521

    Cortes conquers the Aztecs

  • Jan 1, 1558

    Elizabeth I inherits throne

  • Jan 1, 1565

    First permanent settlement in US founded by Pedro Menendez

  • Jan 1, 1570

    Iroquois Conederacy established to stop warfare among the five nations

  • English Colony of Roanoke Island disappears, known as the Lost Colony

  • The Spanish Armada is defeated by English fleet

  • Shakespeare completes a Midsummer Night's Dream

  • Cervantes publishes Part 1 of Don Quixote

  • First permanent English settlement of Jamestown, Virginia

  • Galileo builds first telescope

  • Pilgrims land at Plymouth, Massachusetts

  • Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan begins building the Taj Mahal as tomb for his wife Mumtaz

  • First printing press in English-speaking North America arrives at Massachusetts

  • Bay Psalm Book published; first book printed in the colonies

  • Civil War begins

  • Ming Dynasty ends

  • Massachusetts establishes free public schools

  • First Dutch settlers arrive

  • Milton publishes Paradise Lost

  • Calcutta founded by the British

  • Salam witchcraft trials result in the execution of twenty people

  • Bach composes The Brandenburg Concertos

  • Jonathan Swift publishes Gulliver's Travels

  • First coffee plants cultivated

  • John Peter Zenger acquitted of libel, furthering freedom of the press

  • Great Awakening, a series of religious revivals, begins to sweep the colonies

  • Jonathan Edwards first delivers his sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"

  • Montesquieu publishes The Spirit of the Laws, which later influences the US Constitution

  • French and Indian War begins

  • Samuel Johnson publishes Dictionary of the English Language

  • Parliament's Tea Act prompts Boston Tea Party

  • American Revolution begins

  • Second Continental Congress adopts Declaration of Independence

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart creates the comic opera The Marriage of Figaro

  • Constitutional Convention meets in Philadelphia to draft the Constiution

  • George Washington elected the first president of the United States