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Richard III was King of England from 1483 until his death in 1485, at the age of 32, in the Battle of Bosworth Field.
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Columbus led his three ships - the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria - out of the Spanish port of Palos on August 3, 1492.
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The Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci that has been described as the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world
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Utopia (Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia) is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More (1478–1535) published in 1516 in Latin
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by the Parliament of England
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Elizabeth I was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death.
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William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist
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The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare.
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Romeo and Juliet is an example of a second-period tragedy, as is Julius Caesar.
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The founding of Jamestown, America's first permanent English colony, in Virginia in 1607 13 years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth in Massachusetts sparked a series of cultural encounters that helped shape the nation and the world.
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Shakespeare's sonnets is the title of a collection of 154 sonnets by William Shakespeare, which covers themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty and mortality.
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The King James Version , also known as the King James Bible or simply the Authorized Version (AV), is an English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England begun in 1604 and completed in 1611.
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Plymouth Rock is the traditional site of disembarkation of William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims who founded Plymouth Colony in 1620.
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During the 17th century there were many kinds of publications that told both news and rumors
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Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton
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It began in 1660 when the English, Scottish and Irish monarchies were all restored under the Stuart King Charles II
