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The Renaissance (1400-1449s ((1450s ((1500-1549s ((1550s ((1600-1649s…

- - - - 1485: Richard III is killed in battle
        
        1500-1549s
        
        1516: Thomas More's Utopia is published
        
        1538: Book-licensing laws are introduced in England
        
        1517: Martin Luther posts his ninety-five theses on a church door in Wittenburg, Germany, beginning the Protestant Reformation. First Africans are taken to Americas as slaves
        
        1550s
        
        1564: William Shakespeare, the Bard of Avon, is born
        
        1558: Elizabeth I becomes queen of England
        
        1593-1594: In London, outbreak of plague forces theaters to close
        
        1599: Globe Theatre is built in London
        
        1588: English navy defeats Spanish Armada
        
        1600-1649s
        
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        1509: Henry VIII is crowned king of England
      - 1492: Christopher Columbus reaches the Americas