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Richard III is killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field in England.
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In April of 1492 Christopher Columbus reaches the Americas and is given the rank Admiral of the Ocean Sea.
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The Mona Lisa, often said to be the most well-known painting in the world, was painted by Leonardo da Vinci.
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Thomas More published Utopia, a famous treatise on human society, on the freshly invented printing press.
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This title was 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 I was queen regnant of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death.
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William Shakespeare was born.He was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language.
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The Globe Theatre, built by William Shakespeare's playing company, was a theatre in London built on land owned by Thomas Brend.
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King Lear and Macbeth,both tragedies written by Shakespeare, were published.
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Jamestown[1] was a settlement in the Colony of Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.
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A collection of 154 sonnets written by Shakespeare were published. Some themes used were time, love, beauty, and morality.
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The King James Version of the Bible, commonly known as the Authorized Verson, was published.
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The Mayflower was the Pilgrim ship that in 1620 made the historic voyage from England to the New World.
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The oldest newspapers were published in London on this date.
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John Milton begins writing Paradise Lost, a poem consisting ten book and over ten-thousand lines of verse.
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After Cromwell's death, and following a brief period of rule under his son, Richard Cromwell, the Protectorate Parliament was dissolved in 1659 and the Rump Parliament recalled, the start of a process that led ultimately to the restoration of the monarchy in 1660.
