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Richard III was King of England from 1483 until his death in 1485, at the age of 32, in the Battle of Bosworth.
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Columbus reaches the New World on Oct 12, 1492.
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"The Mona Lisa 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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A utopia is an imagined place or state in which everything is perfect.
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The first Act of Supremacy was legislation in 1534 that granted King Henry VIII of England Royal Supremacy.
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After 44 years of rule, Queen Elizabeth I of England dies, and King James VI of Scotland ascends to the throne, uniting England and Scotland under a single British monarch.
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William Shakespeare was born April of 1564 and died April 23, 1616
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Destroyed by a fire in 1613.
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1605-1606.
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On May 14, 1607, a small company of
settlers landed at a point on the James River
in Virginia and established the settlement of
Jamestown. It was the first permanent
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Shakespeare's Sonnets is the title of a collection of 154 sonnets by William Shakespeare which cover themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty and mortality.
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English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England.
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Plymouth Rock is the traditional site of disembarkation of William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims who founded Plymouth Colony in 1620. It is an important symbol in American history.
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In 1621 the newspaper "Corante" is published in London.
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The first version, published in 1667, consisted of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse.
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Under invitation by leaders of the English Commonwealth, Charles II, the exiled king of England, lands at Dover, England, to assume the throne and end 11 years of military rule.
