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Period: Jan 1, 1400 to
The 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
With the Supremacy Act, Henry VIII proclaims himself head of Church of England
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Jan 1, 1558
Elizabeth I becomes queen of England
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Jan 1, 1564
William Shakespeare is born
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Globe Theatre is built in London
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Shakespeare writes King Lear and Macbeth
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Shakespeare writes King Lear and Macbeth
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First Permanent English settlement in North America is established a Jamestown, Virginia
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Shakespeare's sonnets 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 published in London
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John Milton begins Paradise Lost
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Puritan Commonwealth ends; monarchy is restored with Charles II