1486 - Bartholomew diazrounded the Cape of Good Hope.
1492 – Columbus sailed on his first expedition to the West Indies which later led to the discovery of America (the new world.)
1498 – Vasco da Gama a Portuguese discovered the seat – route to India via the Cape of Good Hope.
5171 –beginning of reformation.
1529 – 36 reformation in England under Henry VIII.
1564 – Birth of Shakespeare.
1571 – Battle of lean-to; Turks defeated by the Christian league.
1577 – Drake, the famous English admiral, started his voyage round the world for the first time andplundered Spanish ships and ports in South America.
1588 – Admiral Drake defeated the Spanish ‘armada’; England became the ‘mistress of the seas’.
1600- Establishment of the British East India Company in India (31st Dec)
1605 – Gunpowder plot in England to blow up the English parliament.
1616 – Shakespeare passes away.
1649 – Trial and execution of Charles I, beginning of commonwealth.
1649 – 60the commonwealth and the protectorate in England.
1660 – Restoration of monarchy in England.
1665 – The great plague in London.
1679 – habeas corpus act.
1688 – The glorious or bloodless revolution in England. Despotic rule of the Stuarts ended, and the parliamentary rule began. Establishment of parliamentary supremacy and abolition of the divine rights of kings.