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He was the last king of the House of York and the last of the Plantagenet dynasty. His defeat at Bosworth Field, the last decisive battle of the Wars of the Roses, marks the end of the Middle Ages in England. He is the subject of the play Richard III by William Shakespeare.
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Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer. Under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean. Those voyages initiated the Spanish colonization of the New World.
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The Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait of a woman which 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".
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Utopia is a work of fiction and political philosophy by Thomas More published in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs.
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Henry VIII was responsible for the Engliish Catholic church breaking away from the authority of the Roman Catholic Church after the Pope excommunicated Henry in 1533. The Act of Supremacy of 1534 confirmed the King's status as having supremacy over the Church of England which he created.
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Under the long reign of Elizabeth, England had become a major world power in every respect, and Queen Elizabeth I passed into history as one of England's greatest monarchs.
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Over the course of 20 years, Shakespeare wrote plays that capture the complete range of human emotion and conflict.
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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.
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King lear and Macbeth were both tragedies written by Shakepeare
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William Kelso says Jamestown "is where the British Empire began ... this was the first colony in the British Empire."
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Shakespeare's sonnets are a collection of 154 sonnets, dealing with themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty and mortality, first published in a quarto entitled SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS.
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The King James Version (KJV), commonly known as the Authorized Version (AV) or King James Bible, is an English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England.
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Pilgrims seeking religious freedom from England traveled to the New World of North America and colonized.
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The London Gazette claims to be the oldest surviving English newspaper and the oldest continuously published newspaper in the UK, having been first published on 7 November 1665 as The Oxford Gazette.
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Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse. It is considered by critics to be Milton's major work, and helped solidify his reputation as one of the greatest English poets of his time.
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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.
