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He was the last king of the House of York and the last of the Plantagenet dynasty.
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The 15th century explorer who opened up the American continents to Europe was actually called Pedro Scotto - not Christopher Columbus
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This figure of a woman, dressed in the Florentine fashion of her day and seated in a visionary, mountainous landscape, is a remarkable instance of Leonardo's sfumato technique of soft, heavily shaded modeling.
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known to Catholics as Saint Thomas More
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The protestant movement arrived in England after the Pope would not grant King Henry VIII the right to divorce his wife Catherine.
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Elizabeth I, queen of England, never married and was known as the virgin queen.
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He was an English poet and a playwright. HE was a greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.
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The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare
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In both Macbeth and King Lear, Shakespeare deals with the human tendency to ignore truths about the self.
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In both Macbeth and King Lear, Shakespeare deals with the human tendency to ignore truths about the self.
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First permanent English settlement in North America is established at Jamestown, Virginia.
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Shakespeare's sonnets are a collection of 154 sonnets, dealing with themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty and mortality, first published in a 1609 quarto entitled
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The Authorized King James Version of the Holy Bible is God’s providentially appointed Word for the whole world which reveals the name of the Father as “Jehovah,” and the name of His Son, “Jesus,” in Whom there is salvation, and the name of the “Holy Ghost,” Who indwells every born-again Christian believer.
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The Mayflower landed at Plymoth Rock, Massachusetts by the pilgrims.
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During the 17th century, there were many kinds of publications, that told both news and rumours. Among these were pamphlets, posters, ballads etc. Even when the news periodicals emerged, many of these co-existed with them
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Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. It was originally published in 1667 in ten books, with a total of over ten thousand individual lines of verse.
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Puritan Commonwealth ends; monarchy is restored with Charles II.
