Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his fleet successfully navigated the treacherous strait at the tip of South America. He became the first European to enter the Pacific Ocean from the Atlantic.
English playwright William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway in Stratford-upon-Avon. Hathaway was 26 and pregnant, while Shakespeare was only 18 at the time of the marriage.
An English poet, painter, and printmaker of the Romantic Age, known for his visionary poetry and artworks such as 'Songs of Innocence and of Experience' and 'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell'.