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Oct 1, 1485
Richard III is killed in battle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_III_of_England' > Richard III was King of England from 1483 until his death in 1485, at the age of 32, in the Battle of Bosworth Field. He was the last king of the House of York and the last of the Plantagenet dynasty. He is the subject of the fictional historical play Richard III by William Shakespeare. -
Oct 1, 1492
Christopher Columbus reaches the Americas
http://www.thepirateking.com/bios/columbus_christopher.htm' > It was one of the most important landings in history. Columbus opened up a new world for exploration and settlement. When he sighted, he bedlieved he had reached his goal which was to find Asia. And to this day even after his death he believed he had reached Asia. -
Oct 1, 1503
Leonardo da Vinci paints Mona Lisa
http://www.britannica.com/topic/Mona-Lisa-painting' > Oil painting on a poplar wood panel by the Italian painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, and engineer Leonardo da Vinci, probably the world’s most-famous painting. It was painted sometime between 1503 and 1506, when Leonardo was living in Florence, and it now hangs in the Louvre, in Paris. -
Sep 30, 1516
Thomas More
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/active_learning/explorations/spain/spain_more.cfm' >Description of an ideal society where crime, injustice, and poverty did not exist. written in the form of a dialogue, pointedly contrasts the simplicity of life in Utopia. In Utopia property is held in common, gold is scorned, and all inhabitants eat the same food and wear the same clothes. -
Oct 1, 1543
With the Supremacy Act, Henry VIII proclaims himself head of Church of England
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Head_of_the_Church_of_England' > Henry had broken with Rome, seized the church's assets in England and declared the Church of England as the established church with himself as its head. The Act of Supremacy of 1534 confirmed the King's status as having supremacy over the church and required the nobility to swear an oath recognising Henry's supremacy. -
Oct 1, 1558
Elizabeth I becomes queen of England
http://www.elizabethi.org/' >The daughter of King Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn, Queen Elizabeth I came to the throne in 1558 and ruled England for almost 45 years. Her reign is known as The Golden Age, a time that saw the birth of Shakespeare, the defeat of the Spanish Armada, and the emergence of England as a world power. -
Sep 30, 1564
William Shakespeare, The Bard of Avon is born
<a href='http://www.biography.com/people/william-shakespeare-9480323#mysterious-origins' > It is believed William Shakespeare was born on or near April 23, 1564. He was baptized on April 26, 1564. Shakespeare was called the English national poet, is widely considered the greatest dramatist of all time. Shakespeare wrote plays that capture the complete range of human emotion and conflict. -
Globe Theatre is built in London
https://www.playshakespeare.com/study/elizabethan-theatres/2189-the-globe-theatre' > The Globe was an Elizabethan theatre which opened in Autumn 1599 in Southwark, on the south bank of the Thames, in an area now known as Bankside.The Globe was built in 1599 using timber from an earlier theatre, The Theatre, that had been built by Richard Burbage's father, James Burbage, in Shoreditch in 1576. -
Shakespeare writes King Lear
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Lear' > King Lear is a tragedy play by William Shakespeare. It depicts the descent into madness of the title character after he disposes of his kingdom between two of his three daughters based on their flattery, bringing tragic consequences for all. -
Shakespeare writes Macbeth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macbeth' > Macbeth is a tragedy written and set mainly in Scotland, the play illustrates the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power for its own sake. -
First permanent English settlement in North America is established at Jamestown, Virginia.
http://www.exploresouthernhistory.com/jamestown.html' > The first settlers of Jamestown, led by the famous Captain John Smith, built a fort, church, storehouse and other structures in their first three months at the settlement, even as sickness and starvation stalked the new colony. By 1609, ships had brought 214 English settlers to Jamestown. -
Shakespeare's sonnets are published
http://public.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/shakespeare/sonnets.html' > Shakespeare's sonnets were published in 1609 by the unsavory Thomas Thorpe (1580-1614), There was no reprint until 1640. The 1640 piracy titled, rearranged, and combined the sonnets until those to the young man seem to be to a woman. For 150 years this was the basis for the sonnets: early piracies. -
King James Bible is published
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Version' >King James Bible is an English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England begun in 1604 and completed in 1611. First printed by the King's Printer Robert Barker, this was the third translation into English to be approved by the English Church authorities. -
The Mayflower lands at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts
http://americanhistory.si.edu/press/fact-sheets/plymouth-rock' > The Mayflower arrived in Plymouth Harbor in 1620, after first stopping near today's Provincetown. According to oral tradition, Plymouth Rock was the site where William Bradford and other Pilgrims first set foot on land. -
Newspapers are first published in London
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John Milton begins Paradise Lost
http://www.themorgan.org/collection/John-Miltons-Paradise-Lost Milton composed the ten books of Paradise Lost between 1658 and 1663. He had first planned the work as early as 1640, intending to write a tragedy titled Adam Unparadised. He became blind in 1652 and it forced him to compose orally. -
Puritan Commonwealth ends; monarchy is restored with Charles II
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restoration_(England)' >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.
