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

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Descartes' Principia Philosophicae is published.'Cogito, ergo, sum.'
The Great Plague.0
End of the reign of Charles I. Start of the Commonwealth of Britain.0
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.
Start of the Reign of Henry VIII.0
William Shakespeare dies.Shakespeare was born in 1564.
Astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler dies.Kepler was born in 1571.
The Great Fire of London.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.
Nicolaus Copernicus dies. This same year, his landmark book Concerning the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres is published.Copernicus was born in 1473.
Oliver Cromwell dies, His son Richard succeeds him as Protector.0
Edmund Spenser's epic The Faerie Queene (Books 1-6) is published.0
Italian poet Ludovico Ariosto'ss epic Orlando Furioso is published.0
Second Civil War in Britain.0
Sir Walter Raleigh is executed.Raleigh was probably born in 1554.
The Commonwealth is ended. Start of the reign of Charles II.0
The King James Bible is published.0
Start of First Civil War in Britain.0
John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress is published.Part II of Pilgrim's Progress was published in 1684.
Antonio Stradivari labels his first violin.0
The Royal Society is founded.0
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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.
End of the reign of James I. Start of the reign of Charles I.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...'
Andrew Marvell is appointed to be John Milton's Assistant in the Secretaryship.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.
Shakespeare's First Folio is published.0
Jamestown is settled.0
Theaters in Britain are closed.0
End of First Civil War in Britain.0
John Dryden is appointed the Poet Laureate of Britain.0
Henry VIII's Act of Supremacy.0
Guy Fawkes attempts the Gunpowder Plot and fails.0
The theaters in Britain are reopened.0
Sir Isaac Newton's manifesto Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica is published.0
Francis Bacon dies.Bacon was born in 1561.
Michelangelo dies.Michelangelo was born in 1475
The Mayflower lands, and Plymouth colony is founded.0
Cervantes's Don Quixote is published.Part II of Don Quixote was published ten years later.
Scientist Galileo Galilei dies.Galileo was born in 1564.
Italian Poet Torquato Tasso's epic Gerusalemme Liberata is published.0
John Calvin dies.Calvin was born in 1509
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DPL Historical Events Relating to Milton Quiz

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