The Renaissance

  • Jan 25, 1485

    richard 3 is killed in battle

    die in the battle of bosworth field
  • Jan 25, 1492

    christopher columbus reaches the americas

    Columbus led his three ships - the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria
  • Jan 25, 1503

    leonardo da vinci paints the mona lisa

    most famous and most celebrated works of all time.
  • Jan 25, 1516

    1516 Tomas More's Utopia is published

    his description of an ideal society where crime, injustice, and poverty did not exist
  • Jan 25, 1543

    with the supremacy act henry VIII proclaims himself head of church of england

    the only supreme head on earth of the Church of England
  • Jan 25, 1564

    1564 william shakespeare the bard of avon, is born

    William Shakespeare, often called the English national poet, is widely considered the greatest dramatist of all time
  • 1599 Globe theatre is built in london

    It was built on the Southbank of the river Thames in Southwark, London in close proximity to the Bear Garden
  • Shakespeare writes king lear and macbeth

    King Lear and its immediate successor Macbeth are Shakespeare’s most profound tragedies
  • shakespeare's sonnets are published

    Two (138 and 144) were published in an anthology