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Oct 22, 1485
King Richard III is killed in battle
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Oct 22, 1492
Christopher Columbus Reaches the Americas
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Oct 22, 1503
Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa
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Oct 21, 1516
Thomas More's Utopia is published
Utopia depicts an island society and all of its rituals and customs. The book is an example of a frame narrative. A frame narrative is a literary technique used to tell a story within a story. The frame story leads readers from a first story into the next one. -
Oct 22, 1543
With the Supremacy Act, Henery VIII proclaims himself head of Church of England
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Oct 22, 1558
Elizabeht I becomes queen fo England
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Oct 22, 1564
William Shakespeare, the Bard of Avon, is born
William Shakespeare was born in 1564. He was born to John and Mary Shakespeare. Shakespeare was born in Stratford on Avon which is in the south Warwickshire -
Globe Theatre is built in London
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Shakespeare writes King Lear and Macbeth
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First permanent English settlement in North America is established at Jamestown, Virginia
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Shakespeare's sonnets are published
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King James Bible is published
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The Mayflower lands at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts
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Newspapers are first published in London
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John Milton begins Paradise Lost
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Puritain Commonwealth ends; monarchy is restored with Charles II
