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Aug 22, 1485
Richard III is killed in battle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_III_of_England' >Richard III was King of England for two years, from 1483 until his death. In August 1485 Henry Tudor engaged Richard in a battle on Bosworth Field were he was killed.
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Oct 12, 1492
Christopher Columbus reaches the Americas
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/columbus-reaches-the-new-world' >Christopher Columbus was an explorer and a navigator. He reacher America in 1492 in his first voyage. </a> -
Oct 1, 1503
Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa' >Leonardo da Vinci began painting the Mona Lisa in 1503 in Florence, Italy. It has been acclaimed as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world".</a> -
Oct 1, 1516
Thomas More's Utopia is published
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_More' >Utopia is a fiction novel written in latin. Utopia is about the political system of an imaginary ideal island nation. It contrasts the social life of European states with the those of the Utopia. </a> -
Oct 1, 1543
With the Supremacy Act, Henry VIII proclaims himself head of Church of England
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Head_of_the_Church_of_England' >The first Act of Supremacy was a piece of legislation that granted King Henry VIII of England Royal Supremacy. He was declared the supreme head of the Church of England.This is still the legal authority of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom. Royal Supremacy is used to describe the legal sovereignty of the civil laws over the laws of the Church in England.</a> -
Nov 17, 1558
Elizabeth I becomes queen of England
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_I_of_England' > Elizabeth I was Queen of England and Ireland from November 17, 1558 until her death.She was called "The Virgin Queen", "Gloriana", or "Good Queen Bess", Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty.</a> -
Apr 23, 1564
William Shakespeare, the Bard of Avon, is born
http://www.biography.com/people/william-shakespeare-9480323' >Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor. He is regarded as the greates writer in englsih language. His works consist of 38 plays,154 sonnets, and 2 narrative poems. </a> -
Globe Theatre is built in London
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globe_Theatre' >The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London. It was associated with William Shakespeare and other shareholders. It was built by Shakespeare's playing company and the Lord Chamberlain's Men. The Globe Theatre was destroyed by fire on June 29, 1613. </a> -
1605-1606 Shakespeare writes King Lear and Macbeth
http://www.shakespeare-online.com/plays/' >King Lear and Macbeth are regarded as Shakespeare's most profound tragedies. King Lear is a story about an aging monarch who decides to divide his kingdom among his three daughters according on which one recites the best decalaration of love. Macbeth illustrates the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition.</a> -
First permanent English settlement in North America is established at Jamestown, Virginia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamestown,_Virginia' >Jamestown was a settlement in the Colony of Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. It was Established by the Virginia Company of London as "James Fort" on May 14, 1607. Jamestown served as the capital of the colony for 83 years.</a> -
Shakespeare’s sonnets are published
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_sonnets' >Shakespeare's Sonnets is the title of a collection of 154 sonnets. They cover themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty and mortality. </a> -
King James Bible is published
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Version' >In 1604 King James I of England authorized a new translation of the bible to be translated into English.It is an English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England. It was completed in 1611. The King James Version is also known as Authorized Version or King James Bible. </a> -
The Mayflower lands at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts
http://www.ushistory.org/us/3a.asp' >The Mayflower was the ship that transported English pilgrims
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Newspapers are first published in London
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John Milton begins Paradise Lost
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost' >Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse.Milton composed the ten books of Paradise Lost between 1658 and 1663. He had planned to begin wrtining by 1640, but by 1652 he had become completely blind. It was published in 1667 with a total of over ten thousand individual lines of verse. </a> -
Puritan Commonwealth ends; monarchy is restored with Charles II
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restoration_(England)' >The Restoration of the English monarchy began in 1660 when the English, Scottish and Irish monarchies were all restored under Charles II after the Interregnum that followed the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
