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Oct 22, 1485
Richard III is killed in battle
was King of England for two years, from 1483 until his death in 1485 in the Battle of Bosworth Field. He was the last king of the House of York and the last of the Plantagenet dynasty. His defeat at Bosworth Field, the decisive battle of the Wars of the Roses, is sometimes regarded as the end of the Middle Ages in England. -
Oct 22, 1492
Christopher Columbus reaches the Americas
Christopher Columbus discovers the americas in 1492, and is accredited with discovering America, even though Leaf Erikson discovered it four centurys before. -
Oct 22, 1503
Leonardo Da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa
The Mona Lisa is a half lengthed portrait of an Ittalian woman 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 -
Oct 22, 1516
Thomas More's Utopia is published
Thomas mores Utopia is pollitical fiction that was originally written in latin, that uses a framed narative to depict a fictional island societey and its political, social, and religous customs. -
Oct 22, 1543
With the Supremacy Act, Henry VIII proclaims himself head of Church of England
Henry the VIII broke away from the catholic church and established the Church of England, even though he still held on to many core catholic teaches. He did this mainly in part to his desires of divorce. -
Oct 22, 1558
Elizabeth I becomes queen of England
Was the fifth and last of the Tudor dynasty, daughter to Henry VII. Gained the crown after her half brother tried to bequeath it to someone else, and also her half sister tried to rule herself. Elizabeth was expected to carry on the Tudor dynasty by reproducing, however she never did. -
Oct 22, 1564
William Shakespeare is born
William Shakespeare was born to the parents John and Mary Shakespeare in Straford upon Avon. -
Globe Theatre is built
Was built by Shakespeare's playing company, The Lord Chamberlin's Men, and was owned by Thomas Brend, and inherited by his son Nick Brend. Featuring a circuler stage that had seating for rich as well as poor. -
Shakespeare writes King Lear and Macbeth
King Lear and Macbeth are two of shakespeares better known works. Both are tradgedies in whcih the main character has an extreme fall from grace and looses virtualy everything. In both works the characters that initiate that fall from grace are family, one being a wife, and the other being daughters. -
first permanent English sttlement
Jamestown was discovered and settled by a joint stock company based out of England. It was the first settlement that actually thrived, unlike its predacesor, Roanoke, whcih disapeared and was never seen again. -
Shakespeares sonnets are published
Shakespeare's sonnets are a collection of 154 sonnets, dealing with themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty and mortality.The sonnets include a dedication to one "Mr. W.H.". The identity of this person remains a mystery and, since the 19th century, has provoked a great deal of speculation -
King James Bible is published
is an English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England begun in 1604 and completed in 1611. First printed by the King's Printer Robert Barker. this was the third translation into English to be approved by the English Church authorities -
Mayflower
In 1620 the Mayflower landed in Plymouth Rock Massachusetss. Although not the first settlement, it was the first settlement due to religous persecution in England. It was also the first place of self sustaining government in the US was concieved with the siging of the mayflower compact. -
Newspapers are first published
The first newspapers began apearing due to a large part of the newly invented printing press, which was being used and produced to make more bibles. The printing press let newspapers replace the old handwritten periodicals into a news source that could be widely distributed and could have more facts. -
John Milton begins Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. Was originally published in ten books that contained over ten thousand lines of verse, but was revised into twelve. Considered to be Milton's major work and what defined him as one of the greatest English poets. -
Puritan Commonwealth Ends
The Commonwealth, or Commonwealth of England, was the period from 1649 onwards when England, along later with Ireland and Scotland, was ruled as a republic following the end of the Second English Civil War and the trial and execution of Charles I. The republic's existence was initially declared through "An Act declaring England to be a Commonwealth", However it ended in 1660 due to a lack of leadership.
