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Richard III was the last English king to be killed in battle.
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explorer, navigator, and colonizer, born in the Republic of Genoa, in what is today northwestern Italy.[2][3][4][5] Under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean that led to general European awareness of the American continents.
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is a half-length portrait of a woman by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci, which has been acclaimed as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world.
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It is variously rendered On the Best State of a Republic and on the New Island of Utopia, Concerning the Highest State of the Republic and the New Island Utopia, On the Best State of a Commonwealth and on the New Island of Utopia, Concerning the Best Condition of the Commonwealth and the New Island of Utopia.
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Henry's struggles with Rome led to the separation of the Church of England from ... and establishing himself as the Supreme Head of the Church of England. ..... and proclaiming the opinion of the theologians at Oxford and Cambridge
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was queen regnant of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called "The Virgin Queen", "Gloriana", or "Good Queen Bess", Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty.
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According to tradition, the great English dramatist and poet William Shakespeare is born in Stratford-on-Avon on April 23, 1564.
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The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in 1599 by Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, and was destroyed by fire on 29 June 1613.[4] A second Globe Theatre was built on the same site by June 1614 and closed in 1642.
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King Lear, Othello, and Macbeth, considered some of the finest works in the English language.
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Jamestown was a settlement in the Colony of Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. Established by the Virginia Company of London
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dealing with themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty and mortality,
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With more than 6 billion copies published, the Bible is the most popular book in the world, and the King James Bible is the most published Bible translation.
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Plymouth Rock is often hailed as the point where the colonists first set foot on their new homeland.
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The London Gazette claims to be the oldest surviving English newspaper and the oldest continuously published newspaper in the UK.
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Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton.
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The designation "Puritan" is often used in the sense that hedonism and ..... such as are fit for any place of authoritie, or of subjection in Church or commonwealth
