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Jan 1, 1485
The Battle
Richard III is killed in battle -
Jan 1, 1492
New Lands
Christopher Columbus reaches the Americas -
Jan 1, 1503
Mona Lisa
Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa -
Jan 1, 1516
Utopia
Thomas More's Utopia is published -
Jan 1, 1543
Henry VIII
With the Supremacy Act, Henry VIII procliams himself the head of the Church of England -
Jan 1, 1558
Bloody Mary
Elizabeth I becomes the Queen of England -
Apr 26, 1564
Bard of Avon
William Shakespeare is born -
Globe THeater
Globe Theater is built in London -
King Lear and Macbeth
SHakespeare writes King Lear and Macbeth -
Jamestown, Virginia
First settlement forms in Jamestown -
Published
SHakespeare's sonnets are published -
The Bible
King James' Bible is published -
Mayflower
The Mayflower lands at Plymouth Rock -
First newspapers
London publishes its first newspapers -
Paradise Lost
John Milton begins Paradise Lost -
Puritan Commonwealth ends
Charles II restores monarchy
