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Aug 22, 1485
Richard III is killed in battle
Richard the third was the last english king to die on the battlefeild, he died from fatal blows to the head and the pelvis -
Aug 3, 1492
Chistopher Columbus reaches the Americas
Christopher Columbus took his three ships to west to go to Asia where all the riches and goods were there to be traded for, instead he landed on unformilier soil and this soil was later known as america -
Jan 1, 1503
Leonardo da VInci paints the Mona Lisa
The mona lisa is one of the most famous painting in the world. It was created by leonardo de vinci who was one of the rannissence famous people -
Jan 7, 1516
Thomas More's Utopia is published
This book was the first book that was about an imaginary world that, in this case, was an island that considered a perfect place. -
Jan 1, 1543
With the Supremacy Act, Henry VII proclaims himself head of church of england
Henry was wanting to get a divorce but the church wouldnt allow it so he became head of the church to divorce his wife. -
Nov 17, 1558
Elizabeth I becomes queen of england
Two months after the death of her half-sister, Queen Mary I of England, Elizabeth Tudor, the 25-year-old daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, is crowned Queen Elizabeth I at Westminster Abbey in London -
Apr 26, 1564
William Shakespeare, the Bard of Avon, is born
"Bard of Avon" remains for millions the greatest English playwright and poet of all time, penning 37 plays and 126 sonnets. Some scholars believe he was incapable of writing the majestic prose and poetry, arguing Christopher Marlowe, Sir Francis Bacon or even good Queen Bess herself penned the plays and poems. -
Globe Theatre is built in london
the globe theatre was created by shakespeare because the other theatres would not let him preform and direct his plays -
Shakespeare writes King Lear and Macbeth
Shakespeare authored King Lear around 1605, between Othello and Macbeth, and it is usually ranked with Hamlet as one of Shakespeare’s greatest plays. The setting of King Lear is as far removed from Shakespeare’s time as the setting of any of his other plays, dramatizing events from the eighth century b.c. But the parallel stories of Lear’s and Gloucester’s sufferings at the hands of their own children reflect anxieties that would have been close to home for Shakespeare’s audience -
First permanent English settlement in North America is established at jamestown, virginia
this is where people say america was born. This establish ment was only with a few hundred people who worked hard to try to leave off the land without any streets or markets -
Shakespeare's sonnets are published
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King James Bible is published
This bible is the most commen bible. It was order to be pubilsh by king james therefore giving it the name king james version -
The Mayflower lands at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts
The mayflower was one of the first ships to sail to the americas. this ship face many challenges do to rough weather and diseases but this but would be the starting point for population in amarica -
Newspapers are first published in london
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John Milton begins Paradise Lost
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Puritan Commonwealth ends; monarchy is restored with CHarles II
