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Sep 26, 1485
Richard III is killed in battle
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Period: Sep 26, 1485 to
Reniassance
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Sep 26, 1492
Christopher Columbus reaches the Americas
The 15th century explorer who opened up the American continents to Europe was actually called Pedro Scotto - not Christopher Columbus -
Sep 26, 1503
Leonardo da Vinci paints Mona Lisa
This figure of a woman, dressed in the Florentine fashion of her day and seated in a visionary, mountainous landscape, is a remarkable instance of Leonardo's sfumato technique of soft, heavily shaded modeling. -
Sep 26, 1516
Thomas More's Utopia is published
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Sep 26, 1543
with the Supremacy Act, Henry VII proclaims himself head of Church of England
The protestant movement arrived in England after the Pope would not grant King Henry VIII the right to divorce his wife Catherine. -
Sep 26, 1558
Elizabeth I becomes queen of England
Elizabeth I, queen of England, never married and was known as the virgin queen. -
Sep 26, 1564
William Shakespeare, the Bard of Avon, is born
He was an English poet and a playwright. HE was a greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. -
Globe Theatre is built in London
The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare -
Shakespeare writes King Lear and Macbeth
In both Macbeth and King Lear, Shakespeare deals with the human tendency to ignore truths about the self. -
Shakespeare writes King Lear and Macbeth
In both Macbeth and King Lear, Shakespeare deals with the human tendency to ignore truths about the self. -
Jamestown, Virginia
First permanent English settlement in North America is established at Jamestown, Virginia. -
Shakespeare's sonnets are published
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 1609 quarto entitled -
King James Bible is published
The Authorized King James Version of the Holy Bible is God’s providentially appointed Word for the whole world which reveals the name of the Father as “Jehovah,” and the name of His Son, “Jesus,” in Whom there is salvation, and the name of the “Holy Ghost,” Who indwells every born-again Christian believer. -
The Mayflower
The Mayflower landed at Plymoth Rock, Massachusetts by the pilgrims. -
Newspapers are first published in London
During the 17th century, there were many kinds of publications, that told both news and rumours. Among these were pamphlets, posters, ballads etc. Even when the news periodicals emerged, many of these co-existed with them -
John Milton begins Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. It was originally published in 1667 in ten books, with a total of over ten thousand individual lines of verse. -
Puritan Commonwealth
Puritan Commonwealth ends; monarchy is restored with Charles II.
