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Sep 30, 1485
Richard III is killed in battle
Richard III was King of England from 1483 until his death in 1485, at the age of 32, in the Battle of Bosworth Field. He was the last king of the House of York and the last of the Plantagenet dynasty. -
Oct 1, 1492
Christopher Columbus reaches the Americas
Columbus led his three ships - the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria to try and find India but ended up discovering the Americas -
Oct 1, 1503
Leonardo Da Vinci Paints the Mona Lisa
The Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait of a woman by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci. -
Sep 30, 1516
Thomas Moore's Utopia is published
Thomas More (1477 - 1535) wrote the first formal utopia. -
Oct 1, 1543
Henry VIII proclaims himself head of Church of England
Henry VIII was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death. He was Lord, and later assumed the Kingship, of Ireland, and continued the nominal claim by English monarchs to the Kingdom of France -
Oct 1, 1558
Elizabeth I becomes Queen of England
Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty. -
Sep 30, 1564
William Shakespeare, The Bard of Avon, is born
Strictly speaking, a bard is an exalted national poet, and the "Bard of Avon" was William SHakespear's nickname because he was such a great poet -
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. -
Shakespeare writes King Lear and Macbeth
Written within a year of each other, these are widely regarded as Shakespeare’s most profound tragedies. -
First permanent English settlement in North America is established at Jamestown, Virginia
Sparked a series of cultural encounters that helped shape the nation and the world. -
Shakespear's Sonnets of published
Shakespeare's Sonnets is the title of a collection of 154 sonnets accredited to William Shakespeare which cover themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty and mortality. -
King James Bible is Published
The King James Version, also known as the Authorized Version or King James Bible, is an English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England. -
The Mayflower lands at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts
There were 102 passengers on the Mayflower, and the crew is estimated to have been about thirty, but the exact number is unknown -
Newspapers are first published in London
Corante was the first private newspaper published in English. -
John Milton begins Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. The first version, published in 1667, consisted of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse. -
Puritan Commonwealth ends; monarchy is restored with Charles II
The Restoration of the English monarchy began in 1660 when the English, Scottish and Irish monarchies were all restored under Charles II after the Interregnum that followed the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
