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Oct 22, 1485
Richard III is killed in battle.
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Oct 22, 1492
Christopher Columbus reaches the Americas
He arrives in the Bahamas. -
Oct 22, 1503
Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa
It is a beautiful painting of a young woman that may or may not be his lover. -
Oct 22, 1516
Thomas More's utopia is published
The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. The frame story leads readers from a first story into another, smaller on within it. -
Oct 22, 1543
Henry VIII proclaims himself head of the the Church of England with the Supremacy Act.
Created the Church of England and further advanced the reformation. -
Oct 22, 1558
Elizabeth I becomes queen of England
Gave birth to the Elizabethian time period. -
Oct 22, 1564
William Shakespeare, the Bard of Avon, is born
He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon and baptised there on April 26 1564. His actual date of birth remains unknown, but is traditionally observed on April 23, Saint George's Day. -
Globe Theatre is built in London
The Globe was built in 1599 using timber from an earlier theatre, The Theatre. -
Shakeseare writes King Lear and Macbeth
King Lear and Macbeth are tragedies by William Shakespeare -
First permanent English settlement in North Ameria is established at Jamestown, Virginia.
Led to English rule in the Americas -
Shakespeare's sonnets are published
Traditionally, English poets emply iabic pentameter when writing sonnets, buts not all English sonnets have the same metrical structures. Some have 12 syllables; these lines are iambic hexameters, albeit with an inverted first foot in several lines. -
King James Bible is published
King James wanted to guarantee that the new version would conform to the ecclesiology and reflect the epicopal structure of the Church of England and its belief in an ordained clergy. -
The Mayflower lands at plymouth Rock, Massachusetts.
A movement to reach religious freedom which led to the puritans being a leading denomonation in America. -
Newspapers are first published in London
Increased access to news. -
Pardise Lost is written
The poem concerns itself with the Fall of Man according to the bible. -
Puristan Commonwealth ends; monarchy is restored with Charles II
Charles II was the British monarch who followed Oliver Cromwell in the leadership of the British Isles.
