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Oct 22, 1485
Richard lll is killed in battle
Richard III (2 October 1452 – 22 August 1485) was King of England for two years, from 1483 until his death in 1485 in the Battle of Bosworth Field. He was the last king of the House of York and the last of the Plantagenet dynasty. His defeat at Bosworth Field, the decisive battle of the Wars of the Roses, is sometimes regarded as the end of the Middle Ages in England. He is the subject of the play Richard III by William Shakespeare. -
Oct 22, 1492
Christopher columbus reaches the Americas
he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean that led to general European awareness of the American continents. Those voyages, and his efforts to establish permanent settlements on the island of Hispaniola, initiated the Spanish colonization of the New World -
Oct 22, 1503
Leonard da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa
a half-length portrait of a woman ,thought to be a portrait of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo,and is believed to have been painted between 1503 and 1506 although Leonardo may have continued working on it as late as 1517 -
Oct 21, 1516
Thomas More's Utopia is published
Utopia is a work of fiction and political philosophy,composed in the Latin language.The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. -
Oct 22, 1543
Henry vlll preclaims himself
Besides his six marriages, Henry VIII is known for his role in the separation of the Church of England from the Roman Catholic Church. Henry's struggles with Rome led to the separation of the Church of England from papal authority, the Dissolution of the Monasteries, and his own establishment as the Supreme Head of the Church of England -
Oct 22, 1558
Elizabeth l becomes queen of england
was queen regnant of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called "The Virgin Queen", "Gloriana" or "Good Queen Bess", Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty. The daughter of Henry VIII -
Oct 21, 1564
William Shakespeare ,the bard of Avon Is born
Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatis.He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon -
Globe Theatre is built in London
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, on land owned by Thomas Brend and inherited by his son, Nicholas Brend and grandson Sir Matthew Brend, and was destroyed by fire on 29 June 1613. A second Globe Theatre was built on the same site by June 1614 and closed in 1642. -
King Lear and Macbeth
King Lear is a tragedy,The play is based on the legend of Leir of Britain, a mythological pre-Roman Celtic king.It has been widely adapted for the stage and motion pictures, and the role of Lear has been coveted and played by many of the world's most accomplished actors.macbeth is considered one of his darkest and most powerful tragedies.Set in Scotland, the play dramatizes the corrosive psychological and political effects produced when evil is chosen as a way to fulfil the ambition for power. -
Jamestown First permanent english settlement is established
Established by the Virginia Company of London as "James Fort" on May 24, 1607 and considered permanent after brief abandonment in 1610, it followed several earlier failed attempts, including the Lost Colony of Roanoke. Jamestown served as the capital of the colony for 83 years, from 1616 until 1699. -
Shakespeares sonnets
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 SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS. The first 17 poems, traditionally called the procreation sonnets, are addressed to a young man urging him to marry and have children in order to immortalize his beauty by passing it to the next generation.[1] Other sonnets express the speaker's love for a young man; brood upon loneliness, death, and the transience of life -
King James Bible is Published
An English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England begun in 1604 and completed in 1611. First printed by the King's Printer Robert Barker, this was the third translation into English to be approved by the English -
Mayflower lands in Plymouth Rock Massachusetts
The Mayflower was the Pilgrim ship that in 1620 made the historic voyage from England to the New World. The ship carried 102 passengers in two core groups – religious Separatists coming from Holland and a largely non-religious settler group from London. -
Newspapers are first published
Corante: or, Newes from Italy, Germany, Hungarie, Spaine and France was the first English newspaper.The earliest of the seven known surviving copies is dated September 24, 1621 ,and the latest is dated October 22 of that same year -
John Milton begins Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton (1608-1674). It was originally published in 1667 in ten books, with a total of over ten thousand individual lines of verse. A second edition followed in 1674, changed into twelve books (in the manner of the division of Virgil's Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout and a note on the versification -
Puritan Commonwealth ends ; monachy is restored with Charles ll
The Restoration of the English monarchy began when the English, Scottish and Irish monarchies were all restored under Charles II after the Interregnum that followed the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.It is very often used to cover the whole reign of Charles II and often the brief reign of his younger brother James II .
