1. Gabby Sampedro, Abbi Ward, Allison Orlowski

2. 1495- Everyman, earlist morality play, written anonymously (printed c. 1530) 1557- Tottel’s anthology Miscellany, originally Songs and Sonnets, published, containing 97 poems attributed to Sir Thomas Wyatt 1576- Edmund Spenser writes his first poetry 1587- Christopher Marlowe’s tragedy Tamburlaine the Great establishes blank verse as main form in English drama 1590- Shakespeare, settled in London, begins career as playwright 1604-James I appoints scholars who begin creating new translation of Bible 1606- Shakespeare’s Macbeth produced 1633- John Milton’s pamphlet Areopagitica attacks press censorship 1658- Milton begins composing Paradise Lost

3. 1485- Henry Tudor defeats Richard III and takes throne as Henry VII 1509- Reign of Henry VIII begins (to 1547) 1534- England breaks from the Roman Catholic Church 1536- Henry VIII unites England and Wales 1558- Reign of Elizabeth I begins (to 1603) 1580- Sir Francis Drake brings great treasures back to England after sailing around the world 1588- English navy Defeats the Spanish Armada 1605- Gunpowder Plot uncovered, saving the life of James I 1607- English establishes Jamestown colony in Virginia and Plymouth in 1620 1642- English Civil War begins (to 1649) 1649- Charles I is beheaded after his 24 year reign 1660- Monarcy Restored with accession of Charles II

4. 1492- Colombus sails to Bahamas in Western Hemisphere 1502- First slaves exported from Africa for work in Americas 1517- Martin Luther begins Reformation, creating Protestant Christians 1521- Cortes conquers Aztecs in Mexico 1543- Theory of Polish astronomer, Nicholas Copernicus, that earth and other planets revolve around sun was published 1547- Ivan the Terrible seizes power in Russia, becoming first czar (to 1584) 1590- Dutch eyeglass maker- Zacharias Janssen invents the microscope 1603- Japan’s Tokugawa regime begins (to 1868) 1609- Italian scientist Galileo Galilei stidies heavens with telescope 1643- Louis XIV begins 72 year reign in France 1644- Ming Dynasty collapses, replaced by the Qing Dynasty, China’s last (to 1912)