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16 Cards in this Set
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1485
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Accession of Henry VII inaugurates Tudor dynasty
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1509
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Accession of Henry VIII
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1517
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Martin Luther's Wittenberg Theses; beginning of the Reformation
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1558
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Accession of Elizabeth I
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1576
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Building of The Theater, the first permanent structure in England for the presentation of plays
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1557
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Publication of Tottel's Songs and Sonnets, poems by Sir Thomas Wyatt Henry Howard, and others
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1588
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Defeat of the Spanish Armada
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1603
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Death of Elizabeth I and accession of James I, the first of the Stuart kings
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1564
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Shakespeare and Christopher Marlow are born
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1642
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Civil War; theatres close
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1649
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Execution of Charles I, beginning of Commonwealth and Protectorate, the Interregnum
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1660
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End of the Protectorate; restoration of Charles II
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1605
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The Gunpowder Plot (Catholic extremists).
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1607
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Jamestown established.
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1667
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Paradise Lost established
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1525
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William Tyndale's translation of Bible
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