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Nov 8, 1485
November 8, 1485
Richard was king of England from 1483 until death in 1485, at age of 32 in the battle of Bosworth Field. -
Nov 8, 1492
Christopher Columbus reaches the amercians
Columbus discovered America in 1492. Columbus led his 3 ships. His objective was to sail west until he reached Asia -
Nov 9, 1503
Leonardo Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa
Mona Lisa, oil painting on a popular wood panel by Leonardo -
Nov 9, 1516
Thomas More's Utopia is published
Utopia is worked of fiction ad political philosophy. This book is a frame of narrative primarily depicting a fictional society and its religious -
Nov 9, 1543
With the Supremacy Act, Henry VIII proclaims himself head of Church of England
The Acts of Supremacy are two acts of the Parliament of England passed in 1534 and 1559 was established -
Nov 9, 1558
Elizabeth I becomes queen of England
she claimed the throne at the age of 25 and held it for 44 years, keeping England in the ascendant through wars and political and religious turn oil. -
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 bend and was destroyed by a fire on June 29, 1613 -
First permanent English settlement in North America is established at Jamestown, Virginia.
The Jamestown settlement in the colony of Virgina was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. Jamestown is where the British Empire began, this was the first colony in the British empire. -
Shakespeare’s sonnets are published
Shakespeare's sonnets is the title of a collection of 154 sonnets which cover themes such as passage of time, love, beauty, and mortality -
King James Bible is published
It is an English translation of the Christian bible for the church of England begun in 1604 and completed in 1611 -
The Mayflower lands at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts
The pilgrims first landed, however, near the site of modern Provincetown on the tip of Cape Cod in November -
Newspapers are first published in London
In 1621 the newspaper "corante" is published collecting and publishing the daily news date. -
John Milton begins paradise lost
PAradise lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th century English poet John Milton, it is consisted of ten books with over ten thousand line verse -
Puritan Commonwealth ends; monarchy is restored with Charles II
King Charles II, the first monarch to rule after the English Restoration. The Restoration of 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 three Kingdoms -
William Shakespeare, The BArd of Avon is born
Church records indicate that William Shakespeare baptized at a holy trinity church in Stratford upon April 26, 1564 -
Shakespeare writes King Lear and Macbeth
One possible event that may influenced by his 3 sisters tried to have her elderly father which declared insane so that she could take control of his property
