Renaissance Period

King Richard III is killed in battle

Oct 22, 1485

Christopher Columbus Reaches the Americas

Oct 22, 1492

Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa

Oct 22, 1503

Thomas More's Utopia is published

Oct 21, 1516

Utopia depicts an island society and all of its rituals and customs. The book is an example of a frame narrative. A frame narrative is a literary technique used to tell a story within a story. The frame story leads readers from a first story into the next one.

With the Supremacy Act, Henery VIII proclaims himself head of Church of England

Oct 22, 1543

Elizabeht I becomes queen fo England

Oct 22, 1558

William Shakespeare, the Bard of Avon, is born

Oct 22, 1564

William Shakespeare was born in 1564. He was born to John and Mary Shakespeare. Shakespeare was born in Stratford on Avon which is in the south Warwickshire

Globe Theatre is built in London

Oct 22, 1599

Shakespeare writes King Lear and Macbeth

Oct 22, 1606

First permanent English settlement in North America is established at Jamestown, Virginia

Oct 22, 1607

Shakespeare's sonnets are published

Oct 22, 1609

King James Bible is published

Oct 22, 1611

The Mayflower lands at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts

Oct 22, 1620

Newspapers are first published in London

Oct 22, 1621

John Milton begins Paradise Lost

Oct 22, 1658

Puritain Commonwealth ends; monarchy is restored with Charles II

Oct 22, 1660