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Richard III is killed in battle
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Christopher Columbus reaches the Americas
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Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa
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Thomas More's Utopia is published
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With the Supremacy Act, Henry VIII procliams himself the head of the Church of England
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Elizabeth I becomes the Queen of England
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William Shakespeare is born
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Globe Theater is built in London
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SHakespeare writes King Lear and Macbeth
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First settlement forms in Jamestown
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SHakespeare's sonnets are published
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King James' Bible is published
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The Mayflower lands at Plymouth Rock
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London publishes its first newspapers
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John Milton begins Paradise Lost
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Charles II restores monarchy
