Two Poems

Selective History Poem (I)

I 1483 – Martin Luther born – 1546 1509 – John Calvin born – 1564 1543 – King Henry VIII establishes The Church of England 1559 – Elizabethan Settlement 1611 – King James Bible 1621 – 1st Thanksgiving 1630 – Quadequine introduces American settlers to popcorn 1675 – King Phillip’s War II 1483 – Jews expelled from Andalusia 1509 – Earthquake in Istanbul kills 10,000 1543 – Japanese receive first guns from Portuguese 1559 – Ikeda Motosuke born – 1584 1611 – Shakespeare writes “The Tempest” 1621 – Pope Gregory XV becomes 234th Pope 1630 – First year of Deccan Famine, kills 2 million, lasts two years 1675 – Emperor Higashiyama is born – 1710 Selective History Poem (II) I 1765 – 1st appearance of Gothic literature 1783 – Treaty of Paris 1809 – Edgar Allen Poe born – 1849 1837 – Telegraph invented 1859 – George Eliot publicly revealed to be a woman 1867 – Canada liberated from British rule 1889 – Eiffel Tower completed 1896 – Noble prize established II 1765 – Stamp Act passed 1783 – Laki erupts for 8 months in Iceland, kills 9,350 1809 – Illinois territory created 1837 – Michigan is made the 26th state of the USA 1859 – Work commences on the Suez Canal 1867 – Working class men in Britain enfranchised 1889 – Lord Alfred Tennyson writes “Crossing the Bar” 1896 – 1st modern Olympics