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The Renaissance

By casey.barr
  • Nov 9, 1485

    Richard III is killed in battle

    Richard III is killed in battle
  • Nov 9, 1492

    Christopher Columbus reaches the Americas

    Christopher Columbus reaches the Americas
  • Nov 9, 1503

    Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa

    Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa
    The Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait of a woman by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, which has been acclaimed as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most ...
  • Nov 9, 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
    The title was created for King Henry VIII, who was responsible for the English Catholic church breaking away from the authority of the Roman Catholic Church after the Pope excommunicated Henry in 1533 over his divorce from Catherine of Aragon. By 1536,
  • Nov 9, 1558

    Elizabeth I becomes queen of England

    Elizabeth I becomes queen of England
    Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana or Good Queen Bess, the childless Elizabeth was the last monarch of the Tudor dynasty.
  • Nov 8, 1564

    William Shakespeare, the Bard of Avon, is born

    William Shakespeare, the Bard of Avon, is born

  • Globe Theatre is built in London

    Globe Theatre is built in London

  • Shakespeare writes King Lear and Macbeth

    Shakespeare writes King Lear and Macbeth

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

    First permanent English settlement in North America is established at Jamestown, Virginia.
    William Kelso writes that Jamestown "is where the British Empire began ... this was the first colony in the British Empire." Jamestown was established by the Virginia Company of London as "James Fort" on May 4, 1607 (O.S., May 14, 1607 N.S.), and was considered permanent after brief abandonment in 1610.

  • Shakespeare’s sonnets are published

    Shakespeare’s sonnets are published

  • King James Bible is published

    King James Bible is published

  • The Mayflower lands at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts

    The Mayflower lands at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts
    Plymouth Rock is the traditional site of disembarkation of William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims who founded Plymouth Colony in 1620. It is an important symbol in American history. There are no contemporaneous references to the Pilgrims' landing on a rock at Plymouth, and it is not referred to in Edward Winslow's Mourt's Relation

  • 1621

    1621

  • John Milton begins Paradise Lost

    John Milton begins Paradise Lost

  • Puritan Commonwealth ends; monarchy is restored with Charles II

    Puritan Commonwealth ends; monarchy is restored with Charles II
    Restoration, Restoration of the monarchy in England in 1660. It marked the return of Charles II as king (1660–85) following the period of Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth. The bishops were restored to Parliament, which established a strict Anglican orthodoxy.