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Literary events, Political and social Events

By arely.delgado
  • Jan 1, 1516

    Thomas More's Utopia is published

    Thomas More's Utopia is published
    Utopia is a work of fiction and political philosophy by Thomas More published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs.
  • Jan 1, 1564

    Wiliam Shakespeare, the Bars of Avon, is born

    Wiliam Shakespeare, the Bars of Avon, is born
    So wrote William Shakespeare, a.k.a. the Bard of Avon, the master of Elizabethan drama, and the world's most famous writer.

  • Globe Theatre is Built in London

    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, on land owned by Thomas Brend and inherited by his son, Nicholas Brend and grandson Sir Matthew Brend, and was destroyed by fire on 29 June 1613

  • Shakespeare writes King Lear and Macbeth

    Shakespeare writes King Lear and Macbeth
    Shakespeare authored King Lear around 1605, between Othello and Macbeth, and it is usually ranked with Hamlet as one of Shakespeare’s greatest plays.

  • Shakespeare's sonnets are published

    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 quarto entitled SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS.

  • King James Bible is published

    King James Bible is published
    The King James Version (KJV), commonly known as the Authorized Version (AV) or King James Bible (KJB), is an English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England begun in 1604 and completed in 1611.

  • Newspaper are first published in london

    Newspaper are first published in london
    Corante: or, Newes from Italy, Germany, Hungarie, Spaine and France was the first newspaper printed in England. The earliest of the seven known surviving copies is dated September 24, 1621 (although John Chamberlain is on record as having complained about them in August), and the latest is dated October 22 of that same year.

  • John Milton begins paradise lost

    John Milton begins paradise lost
    Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton (1608–1674). The first version, published in 1667, consisted of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse. A second edition followed in 1674, arranged into twelve books (in the manner of Virgil's Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout and a note on the versification.