Can you name the DPL the Significant Historical and/or Cultural Events that Related to John Milton?

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End of First Civil War in Britain.0
Start of First Civil War in Britain.0
Andrew Marvell is appointed to be John Milton's Assistant in the Secretaryship.0
Astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler dies.Kepler was born in 1571.
William Shakespeare dies.Shakespeare was born in 1564.
Sir Walter Raleigh is executed.Raleigh was probably born in 1554.
Theaters in Britain are closed.0
Shakespeare's First Folio is published.0
The theaters in Britain are reopened.0
Jamestown is settled.0
The Commonwealth is ended. Start of the reign of Charles II.0
Nicolaus Copernicus dies. This same year, his landmark book Concerning the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres is published.Copernicus was born in 1473.
The Royal Society is founded.0
Cervantes's Don Quixote is published.Part II of Don Quixote was published ten years later.
Oliver Cromwell dies, His son Richard succeeds him as Protector.0
Henry VIII's Act of Supremacy.0
End of the reign of Henry VIII. Start of the reign of Edward VI.Edward VI is the son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour.
Descartes' Principia Philosophicae is published.'Cogito, ergo, sum.'
End of the reign of Mary I. Start of the reign of Elizabeth I.Elizabeth I is the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.
The King James Bible is published.0
Sir Isaac Newton's manifesto Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica is published.0
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Edmund Spenser's epic The Faerie Queene (Books 1-6) is published.0
The Great Plague.0
John Donne, the Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, publishes a series of sermons, Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions.'Never send to know for whom the bell tolls...'
John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress is published.Part II of Pilgrim's Progress was published in 1684.
Second Civil War in Britain.0
Italian Poet Torquato Tasso's epic Gerusalemme Liberata is published.0
End of the reign of Elizabeth I. Start of the reign of James I.James I of England is also known as James VI of Scotland.
The Mayflower lands, and Plymouth colony is founded.0
End of the reign of Charles I. Start of the Commonwealth of Britain.0
Francis Bacon dies.Bacon was born in 1561.
John Calvin dies.Calvin was born in 1509
Michelangelo dies.Michelangelo was born in 1475
Scientist Galileo Galilei dies.Galileo was born in 1564.
End of the reign of Edward VI. Start of the reign of Mary I.Mary I is the daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon.
The Great Fire of London.0
Start of the Reign of Henry VIII.0
End of the reign of James I. Start of the reign of Charles I.0
John Dryden is appointed the Poet Laureate of Britain.0
Guy Fawkes attempts the Gunpowder Plot and fails.0
Antonio Stradivari labels his first violin.0
Italian poet Ludovico Ariosto'ss epic Orlando Furioso is published.0
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DPL Historical Events Relating to Milton Quiz

  1. by WmBan
  • Created Dec 14, 2009 in History
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