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During the civil war in England between the House of Lancaster and the House of York, (the War of the Roses) King Richard III was killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field.
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In an attempt to find a new passage to Asia, Columbus sailed the Atlantic Ocean and stumbled straight onto a New World.
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The Mona Lisa, possibly the world’s most famous painting, was created by Leonardo Davinci. Today, the painting hangs in the Louvre museum.
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Thomas More’s book, Utopia, is a political and philosophical work of fiction. The book was originally published in Latin.
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In order to cut ties with the Roman Catholic Church, King Henry VIII passed the Supremacy Act to make himself the head of the Church of England.
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Queen Elizabeth I, also known as the Virgin Queen, was a well-loved monarch of England.
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William Shakespeare was a playwright, an actor, and a poet. He wrote several plays and 154 sonnets in his lifetime.
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The Globe Theater was an Elizabethan theater that was the primary theater for the Lord Chamberlain’s Men.
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English playwright Shakespeare wrote King Lear and Macbeth in about 2 years. King Lear and Macbeth are considered to be his most profound tragedies.
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Jamestown was the first major area for colonization of the New World by the British.
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Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets in his lifetime, and 37 plays. Sonnets are incredibly difficult to write, but it is said that he wrote these with inspiration from his lover.
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The King James Bible, also known as the Authorized Version, was the third authorized translation of the Bible into English.
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The Mayflower, a ship containing pilgrims fleeing England in search of religious freedom, lands at Plymouth Rock in 1620.
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The first newspapers printed in England were very strictly controlled by the British government.
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Paradise Lost is an epic poem that spanned ten books and over ten thousand lines of verse.
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At the height of the English Civil War, King Charles I was executed, and Oliver Cromwell became a virtual dictator of England. Upon his death, Charles II was invited to reclaim his rightful place as king.
