These Curious Facts About The Past Will Reshape Anyone’s Sense Of Time

Shakespeare was alive when the first British settlement in America was established

The Elizabethan Era is frequently depicted as England’s Golden Age since it was a time during which poetry, music, and literature flourished. The theater, in particular, was blessed with the production of one of the greatest English-language writers of all time: William Shakespeare.

Nevertheless, England saw prosperity in many different aspects, not just culturally. In the year 1607, nine years before Shakespeare’s unfortunate death, Jamestown, the first permanent British settlement in America, was established. It was named after King James I of England.