-
Nov 8, 1485
Richard iii is killed in battle
King Richard III, the last Plantagenet king, died during the decisive Battle of Bosworth on 22nd August 1485. -
Nov 8, 1492
Christopher Columbus reaches the Americas
Columbus led his three ships - the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria - out of the Spanish port of Palos on August 3, 1492. His objective was to sail west until he reached Asia (the Indies) where the riches of gold, pearls and spice awaited. -
Nov 8, 1503
Leonardo da Vinci paints the mona lisa
The painting, thought to be a portrait of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo, is in oil on a white Lombardy poplar panel. -
Nov 8, 1516
Thomas More's "Utopia" is published
an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect picture. The word was first used in the book Utopia (1516) by Sir Thomas More. -
Nov 8, 1543
With the Supremacy Act, Henry Vlll proclaims himslef head of Church of England
The Act declared that the King was "the only supreme head on Earth of the Church of England" and that the English crown shall enjoy "all honours, dignities, preeminences, jurisdictions, privileges, authorities, immunities, profits, and commodities to the said dignity" -
Nov 8, 1558
Elizabeth i becomes queen of England
Queen Elizabeth I was born on the September 7, 1533 in Greenwich England. She was a princess but declared illegitimate through political machinations. She eventually 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 turmoil. -
Nov 8, 1564
William Shakespeare, The Bard of Avon, is born
Its a title given to William Shakespeare, who was born and buried in Stratford-upon-Avon, England and A bard is a poet. which comes out to be The Bard of Avon. -
Globe Theatre is bulit in London
The global theatre is built 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 1605-1606
The years Shakespeare wrote king lear about an aging king who decides to divvy up his kingdom between his three daughters (Goneril, Regan, and Cordelia) in order to avoid any conflict after his death and. Then Macbeth about A brave Scottish general named Macbeth receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the Scottish throne for himself. -
First permanent English settlement in North America is established at Jamestown, Virgina
The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. -
Shakespeare's sonnet are published
Shakespeare's Sonnets is the title of a collection of 154 sonnets by William Shakespeare, which covers themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty and mortality. The first 126 sonnets are addressed to a young man; the last 28 to a woman. -
King James Bible is published
The King James Version, also known as the Authorized Version or the King James Bible, 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 Mayflower was the ship that transported the first English Separatists, known today as the Pilgrims, from Plymouth to the New World in 1620 .There were 102 passengers, and the crew is estimated to have been about 30, but the exact number is unknown. This voyage has become an iconic story in some of the earliest annals of American history, with its story of death and of survival in the harsh New England winter environment. -
Newspapers are first published in London
The first true newspaper published in Britain was the Oxford Gazette -
John Milton begins Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse. English poet John Milton. consisted of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse -
Puritan Commonwealth ends; monarchy is restored with charles ll
King Charles II, the first monarch to rule after the English Restoration. 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.
