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Aug 22, 1485
Rishard III is killed in battle
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Aug 3, 1492
Christopher Columbus reaches the Americas
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Feb 5, 1503
Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa
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May 5, 1516
Thomas More's Utopia is published
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Apr 21, 1543
Henry VII proclaims himself head of the Church of England
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Feb 5, 1558
Elizabeth I becomes Queen of England
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Apr 26, 1564
william Shakespear, the Bard of Avon, is born
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The Globe is built in London
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Shakespear writes King Lear
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Shakespeare writes Macbeth
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First permanant English settlement in North America is established at Jamestown,Virgina
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Shakespeares sonnets are published
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King James Bible is published
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The Mayflower lands at Plymouth Rock, Massachutes
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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 Charled II