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Richard III (last king of house of new York) is killed in battle. Battle won by Lancastrians
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Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa (La Gioconda, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo). Original painting size is77 x 53 cm (30 x 20 7/8 in). Woman, dressed in the Florentine fashion of her day and seated in a visionary, mountainous landscape
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Thomas More's Utopia is published.
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With the Supremacy Act, Henry VII proclaims himself head of Church of England.
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Elizabeth I becomes queen of England from 1558 until her death. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana or Good Queen Bess, the childless Elizabeth was the last monarch of the Tudor dynasty.
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born in Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564 on St. George's day
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Globe Theatre is built in London. Using timber from an earlier theatre, The Theatre, which had been built by Richard Burbage's father, James Burbage, in Shoreditch in 1576.
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Shakespeare writes King Lear and Macbeth.
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Jamestown, Virginia. The first permanent English settlement in the New World was established here on the banks of Virginia's James River in 1607. Jamestown, Virginia, One of the most historic sites in North America, this point on the James River was the site of the first English settlement.
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Shakespeare's sonnets are published. There were 154 all together; the first 126 by a man and the last 28 by a woman
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King James Bible is published. Was begun in 1604 and finally completed in 1611. An English transition of the Christian Bible for the Church of England.
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The Mayflower lands at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts. 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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Newspapers are first published in London. "Corante"
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John Milton begins Paradise Lost.
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The Restoration of the English monarchy began in 1660 when the English, Scottish and Irish monarchies were all restored under Charles II after the Interregnum that followed the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
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Christopher Columbus reaches the Americas. Claims land, many people from around the world heard of the riches of this newly discovered land and moved to the Americas.
