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King of England for two years, from 1483 until his death in 1485 in the Battle of Bosworth Field
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Set out sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus sights a Bahamian island, believing he has reached East Asia.
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Half-length portrait of a woman
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The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs.
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Responsible for the English church breaking away from the authority of the Roman Catholic Church after the Pope excommunicated Henry in 1533 over his divorce from Catherine of Aragon.
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Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of theTudor dynasty. The daughter of Henry VIII, she was born into the royal succession, but her mother, Anne Boleyn, was executed two and a half years after her birth.
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He was an English poet and playwright, 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. It was built in 1599 by Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men.
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Shakespearean scholars, beginning with Edmond Malone in 1778, have attempted to reconstruct the relative chronology by various means
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Jamestown was the first successful English settlement on the mainland of North America.
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collection of 154 sonnets, dealing with themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty and mortality, first published in a 1609 quarto entitled SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS.
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A team of scholars produced an English Bible translation unsurpassed in linguistic beauty and longevity.
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The Mayflower was the Pilgrim ship that in 1620 made the historic voyage fromEngland to the New World.
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Britain's press can trace its history back more than 300 years, to the time of William of Orange. Berrow's Worcester Journal, which started life as the Worcester Postman in 1690 and was published regularly from 1709, is believed to be the oldest surviving English newspaper.
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Epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton
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The Commonwealth, or Commonwealth of England, was the period from 1649 onwards when England, along later with Ireland and Scotland.
