Timeline

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  • Sep 26, 1485

    Richard III is killed in battle

    Richard was the last Yorkist king of England, whose death at the Battle of Bosworth effectively ended the Wars of the Roses.
  • Sep 26, 1492

    Christopher Columbus reaches the Americas

    Columbus led his three ships - the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria - out of the Spanish port on august 3, 1492. He wanted to sail west until he reached Asia (the Indies) where the riches of gold, pearls and spice awaited. His first stop was the Canary Islands where the lack of wind left his expedition becalmed until September 6.
  • Sep 27, 1503

    Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa

    is a half-length portrait of a woman by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci, which has been acclaimed as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world
  • Period: Jan 1, 1516 to

    Literary Events

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  • Sep 26, 1516

    Thomas More's Utopia is published

    Saint Thomas More's Utopia is one of the most important works of European humanism.
  • Sep 27, 1543

    With the Supremacy Act, Henry VII proclaims himself head of Church of England

    The first Act of Supremacy was a piece of legislation that granted King Henry VIII of England Royal Supremacy, which means that he was declared the supreme head of the Church of England. It is still the legal authority of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom. Royal Supremacy is specifically used to describe the legal sovereignty of the civil laws over the laws of the Church in England.
  • Sep 27, 1558

    Elizabeth I becomes queen of England

    Sometimes called "The Virgin Queen", "Gloriana", or "Good Queen Bess", Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty. The daughter of Henry VIII, she was born a princess, but her mother, Anne Boleyn, was executed two and a half years after her birth, and Elizabeth was declared illegitimate.
  • Sep 26, 1564

    William Shakesspeare, the Bard of Avon, is born

    William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised) – 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

  • Globe Theatre is built in London

    The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in 1599 by Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, and was destroyed by fire on 29 June 1613

  • 1605 -1606 Shakespeare writes King Lear and Macbeth

    The story of King Lear and his three daughters existed in some form up to four centuries before Shakespeare recorded his vision.

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

    On May 14, 1607, a small company of
    settlers landed at a point on the James River
    in Virginia and established the settlement of
    Jamestown. It was the first permanent
    English settlement in the New World.

  • Shakespeare's sonnets are published

    Shakespeare's sonnets are a collection of 154 sonnets, dealing with themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty and mortality

  • King James Bible is published

    this is an English translation of the Christian Bible by the Church of England begun in 1604 and completed in 1611.[3] First printed by the King's Printer Robert Barker,[4][5] this was the third official translation into English.

  • 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.

  • Newspapers are first published in London

    The London Gazette is one of the official journals of record of the British government, and the most important among such official journals in the United Kingdom, in which certain statutory notices are required to be published.

  • John Milton begins Paradise Lost

    Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. It was originally published in 1667 in ten books, with a total of over ten thousand individual lines of verse.

  • Puritan Commonwealth ends; monarchy is restored with Charles II

    The Restoration of the English monarchy began in 1660 when the English, Scottish and Irish monarchies were all restored under Charles II after the Interregnum that followed the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. The term Restoration is used to describe both the actual event by which the monarchy was restored, and the period of several years afterwards in which a new political settlement was established.