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Sep 27, 1485
Richard 3 is killed in battle
King of England for two years, from 1483 until his death in 1485 during the Battle of Bosworth Field. -
Sep 27, 1492
Christopher Columbus reaches the Americas
Under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean that led to general European awareness of the American continents. -
Sep 27, 1503
Leonardo da Vinci paints Mona Lisa
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 -
Oct 28, 1516
Thomas More's Utopia is published
A Truly Golden Little Book, No Less Beneficial Than Entertaining, of the Best State of a Republic, and of the New Island Utopia and A Fruitful and Pleasant Work of the Best State of a Public Weal, and of the New Isle Called Utopia -
Sep 27, 1543
Henry 8th proclaims himself head of church of england
Henry VIII is known for his role in the separation of the Church of England from the Roman Catholic Church. Henry's struggles with Rome led to the separation of the Church of England from papal authority, the Dissolution of the Monasteries, and establishing himself as the Supreme Head of the Church of England -
Sep 27, 1558
Elizabeth 1 becomes queen of England
Elizabeth set out to rule by good counsel, and she depended heavily on a group of trusted advisers led by William Cecil, Baron Burghley. One of her first moves as queen was the establishment of an English Protestant church, of which she became the Supreme Governor. -
Nov 7, 1564
William Shakespeare, the bard of Avon, is born
An English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon -
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 -
Shakespeare writes king lear and macbeth
King Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The title character descends into madness after foolishly disposing of his estate between two of his three daughters based on their flattery, -
First permanent Engllish settlement in north america is established at jamestown, Virginia
A small company of settlers landed at a point on the James River
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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, first published in a 1609 -
King James bible is published
Commonly known as the King James Version, King James Bible, AV, KJB, or KJV, is an English translation of the Christian Bible by the Church of England begun in 1604 and completed in 1611 -
The mayflower lands at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts
The location of the Plymouth Rock is at the foot of Cole's Hill allegedly passed from generation to generation in the first century after the Pilgrims' landing in 1620. -
Newspapers are first published in london
The increased output of books and pamphlets made possible by the development of the printing press in the 16th century did not include any newspapers, properly defined. The nearest form was the newssheet, which was not printed but handwritten by official scribes and read aloud by town criers -
John Milton begins Paradise Lost
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. A second edition followed in 1674, changed into twelve books (in the manner of the division of Virgil's Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout and a note on the versification.[ -
Puritan Commonwealth ends; monarchy is restored with Charles 2
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.
