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1454
Invention of movable block printing
1478
Thomas More born
c.1490
Thomas Elyot born
1492
Discovery of the New World |
1503
Thomas Wyatt born
1509
Henry VII becomes King of England
1515
Roger Ascham born
1516
Thomas More’s Utopia is published in Louvain
1517
Martin Luther’s theses
Thomas More becomes a member of the King’s Council
More’s History of Richard III published
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey born
1521
Thomas More knighted by Henry VIII, and becomes Under-Treasurer of England
1523
Thomas More becomes Speaker of the House of Commons
More’s Responsio ad Lutherum published
1525
Tyndale’s translation of the Bible published
1529
Thomas More becomes Lord Chancellor
1531
Elyot is ambassador to Emperor Charles V, published his The Book Named
the Governor
1532
Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion
More resigns as Lord Chancellor
1534
Ascham made fellow of St. John's College
Elyot's The Castle of Health
1535
Henry VIII deems himself Supreme Head of the Church of England
Thomas More is convicted of treason and is beheaded
1538
Elyot's Latin-English Dictionary
1539
The Great Bible printed
1542
Sir Thomas Wyatt dies
1543
Copernicus introduces heliocentric world system
1545
Ascham receives pension from Henry VII for his Toxophilus
1546
Elyot dies
1547
Surrey executed on charges of treason
Edward VI becomes king
1552
Edmund Spenser born in London
1553
Mary Tudor becomes queen
1554
Philip Sidney born at Penshurst
1557
Tottel’s Miscellany printed
More’s collected English Works published
Surrey’s translation of Virgil’s Aeneid published
(posthumous)
1558
Elizabeth’s accession to the throne, rise of Protestantism
1560
The Geneva Bible printed
1561
Francis Bacon born
1564
Christopher Marlowe born in Canterbury
William Shakespeare born
1567
Arthur Golding’s translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses is printed
1568
Term Renaissance used in context in Vasari’s Lives of the Most
Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects
The Bishop’s Bible translation published
Ascham dies
1569
Spenser goes to Pembroke Hall (Cambridge)
1570
Ascham's The Schoolmaster published posthumously
1571
Philip Sidney leaves Christ College without a degree in order to travel
1576
Spenser graduates (MA) from Cambridge
1579
North’s translation of Plutarch’s Parallel Lives
Spenser marries Machabyas Childe
Spenser’s The Shepheardes Calendar published
1580
Sidney’s The Old Arcadia published
Marlowe goes to Corpus Christi College (Cambridge)
1582
The Douay-Rheims Version of the Bible published
Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway
1584
Marlowe graduates (BA)
1586
Sir Philip Sidney dies
1587
Marlowe graduates (MA)
Marlowe publishes Tamburlaine
1588
Defeat of the Spanish Armada
Thomas Hobbes born
1589
Spenser visits London with Ralegh, is awarded pension by
Elizabeth I for the first three books of his Faerie Queen
1591
Marlowe publishes Edward II
Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella published in three
unauthorized editions
Spenser publishes Muipotmos, Mother Hubberds Tale, Daphnaida
Robert Herrick born
1592
Spenser’s translation Axiochus published
Spenser marries Elizabeth Boyle
1593
Marlowe writes Doctor Faustus, works on Hero and Leander,
is stabbed to death after his arrest
George Herbert born
1595
Spenser’s Epithalamion published
1596
Spenser writes A Vewe of the Present State of Ireland
Spenser’s The Faerie Queen is published in one volume
1597
Bacon's first Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral published
1599
Spenser’s death in London
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1603
James VI of Scotland becomes James I of England
Jonson writes Sejanus
Francis Bacon knighted
1604
Carel van Mander’s Painter’s Manual
1605
Bacon's The Advancement of Learning published
1606
Jonson writes Volpone
1608
John Milton born
1609
Jonson writes Epicoene
1610
Shakespeare retires to Stratford
Jonson writes The Alchemist
1611
King James Authorized Version of the Bible published
1612
Richard Crashaw born in London
1613
The Globe theatre burns
1614
Donne writes Essays in Divinity
Jonson writes Bartholomew Fair
1616
Shakespeare dies
Folio edition of Jonson's Works published
1618
Bacon becomes Baron Verulam
1620
Bacon's Novum Organum published
1621
Donne becomes Dean of St. Paul's
Andrew Marvell born
Bacon becomes Viscount St. Albans
Henry Vaughan born
1623
Shakespeare’s First Folio published by Henry Condell
Donne writes Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions
Herrick ordained
1625
Bacon's complete Essays published
1626
George Sandys’ translation of Ovid’s Metamorphosis
Herrick attains living of Dean Prior in Devonshire
Francis Bacon dies, his Sylva Sylvarum and The New
Atlantis are published
1629
Milton graduates (MA) from Christ College, Cambridge
1630
Herbert becomes rector at Bemerton
1631
Donne dies
Jonson dies
Milton writes L'Allegro and Il Penseroso
1632
Milton graduates (MA)
1633
George Herbert dies, his The Temple is published posthumously
1634
Milton's masque Comus performed
1635
Crashaw becomes a fellow of Peterhouse
1637
Milton writes Lycidas
1639
Crashaw takes orders
"Bishop’s War"
Charles I becomes king
1641
Long Parliament
1642
Parliament orders the close of theatres
Civil War begins
Milton writes The Reason of Church Government
1642
Milton marries Mary Powell
1643
Crashaw abandons his fellowship
1644
Milton's Of Education and Areopagitica are published
1646
Vaughan's Poems published
1648
End of 30 Years War
Herrick's Hesperides published with Noble Numbers
Crashaw's Steps to the Temple published
1649
Archbishop Laud beheaded
James I beheaded
Charles I executed
Crashaw dies
1650
Vaughan's Silex Scintillus published
Hobbes's The Answer to Davenant's Preface before Gondibert
published
1651
Charles II crowns himself in Scotland
Vaughan's Olor Iscanus published
Hobbes's Leviathan published
1652
Crashaw's Carmen Deo Nostro published
1653
Cromwell named Lord Protector
1657
Marvell becomes Latin Secretary
1660
Establishment of the Royal Society
Restoration of Charles II to the throne
1667
Milton's Paradise Lost published
1671
Milton's Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes published
1674
Herrick dies
Milton dies
1678
Andrew Marvell dies
Vaughan's Thalia Rediviva published
1681
Marvell's Miscellaneous Poems published
1695
Vaughan dies |
