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Jan 27, 1485
Richard III killed
in the Battle of Bosworth Field. He was the last king of the House of York and the last of the Plantagenet dynasty. -
Jan 27, 1492
Christopher Columbus
Columbus reached the New World, landing on an island in the Bahamas archipelago that he named "San Salvador". -
Jan 27, 1503
Leonardo da Vinci - Mona Lisa
The painting, thought to be a portrait of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo, is in oil on a white Lombardy poplar panel, and is believed to have been painted between 1503 and 1506. Leonardo may have continued working on it as late as 1517 -
Jan 26, 1516
Utopia
frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. -
Jan 27, 1543
Henry VIII
was Lord, and later assumed the Kingship, of Ireland, and continued the nominal claim by English monarchs to the Kingdom of France. -
Jan 27, 1558
Elizabeth I
Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana or Good Queen Bess, the childless Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty. -
Jan 27, 1564
William Shakespeare- Bard of Avon
Bard of Avon definition. A title given to William Shakespeare, who was born and buried in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. A bard is a poet. -
Globe Theatre
It was built by Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, on land owned by Thomas Brend and inherited by his son, Nicholas Brend and grandson Sir Matthew Brend, and was destroyed by fire on 29 June 1613. -
Shakespeare`s King Lear and Macbeth
1605-1606 King Lear depicts the gradual descent into madness of the title character and Macbeth set mainly in Scotland, the play dramatises the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power for its own sake. -
First Settlement
The Jamestown[1] settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. -
Shakespeares Sonnets
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
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 that began in 1604 and was completed in 1611. -
The Mayflower
The Mayflower was the ship that transported the first English Separatists, known today as the Pilgrims, from Plymouth to the New World in 1620.[1][2] There were 102 passengers, and the crew is estimated to have been about 30, but the exact number is unknown.[3] This voyage has become an iconic story in some of the earliest annals of American history -
Newspapers
The London papers are created -
John MIlton-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. -
Monarchy
Charles II's father, Charles I, was executed at Whitehall on 30 January 1649, at the climax of the English Civil War.
