Renaissance timeline

By robert.hanson
  • Sep 26, 1485

    Richard III is killed in battle

    Richard III is killed in battle
  • Sep 26, 1492

    Christopher Columbus reaches the Americas

    Christopher Columbus reaches the Americas
  • Sep 26, 1503

    Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa

    Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa
  • Sep 26, 1516

    Thomas More's Utopia is published

    Thomas More's Utopia is published
    Thomas More is a public servant living in London with his family. He writes a letter to a friend in Antwerp (Belgium) named Peter Giles. Giles is a printer and editor, as well as a clerk for the city. In More's letter, we read that More is sending Utopia to Giles for editing and publication. Utopia chronicles a conversation that More and Giles enjoyed with a man named Raphael Hythloday.
  • Sep 26, 1543

    With the Supremacy Act, Henry VIII proclaims himself head of Church of England

    With the Supremacy Act, Henry VIII proclaims himself head of Church of England
  • Sep 26, 1558

    Elizabeth I becomes queen of England

    Elizabeth I becomes queen of England
  • Sep 26, 1564

    William Shakespeare, the Bard of Avon, is born

    William Shakespeare, the Bard of Avon, is born
    nick name for Shakespeare

  • Globe Theatre is built in London

    Globe Theatre is built in London
    where shakespeare performed his plays

  • Shakespeare writes King Lear and Macbeth

    Shakespeare writes King Lear and Macbeth
    Macbeth is a play of contradiction and ambition. Driven to becoming King, Macbeth will kill all and any that get in his way. He puts his faith in the words and prophesies of three witches

  • First permanent English settlement in North America is established at Jamestown, Virginia

    First permanent English settlement in North America is established at Jamestown, Virginia

  • Shakespeare's sonnets are published

    Shakespeare's sonnets are published
    A sonnet is a 14-line poem that rhymes in a particular pattern. In Shakespeare's sonnets, the rhyme pattern is abab cdcd efef gg, with the final couplet used to summarize the previous 12 lines or present a surprise ending. The rhythmic pattern of the sonnets is the iambic pentameter.

  • King James Bible is published

    King James Bible is published
    the holy bible

  • The Mayflower lands at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts

    The Mayflower lands at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts

  • Newspapers are first published in london

    Newspapers are first published in london
    During the 17th century, there were many kinds of publications, that told both news and rumours. Among these were pamphlets, posters, ballads etc. Even when the news periodicals emerged, many of these co-existed with them.

  • John Milton begins Paradise Lost

    John Milton begins Paradise Lost
    Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton.

  • Puritan Commonwealth ends; monarchy is restored with Charles II

    Puritan Commonwealth ends; monarchy is restored with Charles II