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Period: Jan 1, 1480 to
Renaissance
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Jan 1, 1485
Richard III is killed in battle
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Jan 1, 1492
Christopher Columbus reaches the Americas
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Jan 1, 1503
Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa
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Jan 1, 1516
Thomas More's Utopia is published
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Jan 1, 1543
Henry VIII proclaims himself head of Church of England by the Supremacy Act
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Jan 1, 1558
Elizabeth I becomes Queen of England
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Jan 1, 1564
William Shakespeare, the Bard of Avon, is born
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Globe Theatre built in London
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Shakespeare writes King Lear and Macbeth
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First permanent English settlement in North America: Jamestown, Virginia
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Shakespeare's sonnet's 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 publoshed in London
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John Milton beings Paradise Lost
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Puritan Commonwealth ends; monarchy restored with Charles II
