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The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907–21).
Volume III. Renascence and Reformation.

Table of Principal Dates

1475	The Babees’ Boke.
1478(?)	First book printed at Oxford.
1485–1489	Linacre and Grocyn go to Italy.
1485–1509	King Henry VII.
1486	Bartolommeo Diaz circumnavigates the Cape.
1489	Villon’s poems (first dated edition).
1490	Sannazaro Arcadia.
1491	Death of Caxton.
1491	Marsilio Ficino’s works published at Basel.
1492	Columbus discovers the West Indies.
1494	Sebastian Brant’s Narrenschiff printed at Basel.
1494–1515	Aldus Manutius prints editiones principes of Greek authors.
1497	Sebastian Cabot reaches America.
1498	Execution of Savonarola.
1499	Erasmus visits England.
1499	Pinzon and Amerigo Vespucci rediscover America.
1503	Erasmus’s Enchiridion Militis Christiani.
1503	The Lady Margaret endows professors of Divinity at Oxford and Cambridge.
1505	The Lady Margaret founds Christ’s College, Cambridge.
1506	Death of Columbus.
Before 1508	Skelton’s Phyllyp Sparowe.
Before 1509	Skelton’s Bowge of Courte.
1509	The Ship of Fools.
1509	Erasmus’s Moriae Encomium.
1509	The Lady Margaret founds St. John’s College, Cambridge.
1509	Bishop Smyth and Sir Richard Sutton found Brasenose College, Oxford.
1509–1547	King Henry VIII.
1510–1513	Erasmus at Cambridge.
c. 1510	Cocke Lorell’s bote.
c. 1510 (?)	The Parson of Kalenborowe.
1513	Gawain Douglas’s trans. of the Aeneid printed.
1513	Macchiavelli’s Prince (pub. 1532).
1513	Battle of Flodden.
1514	Greek text of New Testament printed at Alcalá, through instrumentality of cardinal Ximenes.
1514	Epistolae Obscurorum Virorum, vol. I (vol. II 1517).
1515	Earliest known edition of Eulenspiegel.
1516	More’s Utopia (Latin).
1516–1563	Eulenspiegel in English.
1516	Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso.
1516	Death of Battista Spagnuoli (Mantuanus).
1516	Froben publishes Erasmus’s Greek Testament at Basel.
1516	Bishop Fox founds Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
c. 1516	Skelton’s Magnyfycence.
1517	Luther’s theses at Wittenberg.
1518	Linacre founds the Royal College of Physicians.
1519	Cortes reaches the capital of Mexico.
1519–1555	Charles V.
c. 1519	Skelton’s Colyn Clout.
1520	Straits of Magellan crossed.
1520	Death of Raphael.
1521	Major’s Historia majoris Britanniae.
1521	Melanchthon’s Loci Communes.
1521	Diet of Worms.
1521–1522	John Siberch prints books at Cambridge.
1522–1523	Skelton’s Why come ye nat to courte.
1524	Berners’s Froissart.
1524	Luther and Walther’s first German hymn book.
1525	Tindale’s New Testament, Worms.
1525	Wolsey founds Cardinal college, Oxford, on the site of the monastery of St. Frideswide (re-endowed as Christ Church, 1546).
c. 1526	A C. Mery Talys.
1526	Vives: De Subventione Pauperum.
1527	Death of Macchiavelli.
1528	Rede me and be not wrothe.
1528	Simon Fish’s Supplication.
1528	Castiglione’s Il Cortegiano.
1528	Execution of Patrick Hamilton.
c. 1528	Lyndsay’s Dreme.
1528	Death of Dürer.
1529	Guevara’s Dial of Princes (trans. Berners, 1531).
1530	Death of Cardinal Wolsey.
1530	Death of Sannazaro.
1531	Elyot’s Governour.
1531	Death of Zwingli.
1531	(pub. after) The Hye Way to the Spyttel Hous.
1532–1564	Rabelais: Pantagruel.
1533	Death of Ariosto.
1534	Ignatius Loyola founds the Society of Jesus.
1535–1539	Suppression of religious houses.
1535	The first complete English Bible (Coverdale’s 1st edition) printed.
1535	Act of Supremacy.
1535	Execution of Sir Thomas More.
1536	Execution of William Tindale.
1536	Death of Erasmus.
1536	Calvin’s Christianae Religionis Institutio.
1536	Bellenden’s translation of Boece.
1536(?)	The Complaynt of Roderyck Mors.
1537	The first Bible (Coverdale’s 2nd edition) printed in England
1537	The Institution of a Christian Man
1538	Kirchmayer’s Pammachius.
1539	The Great Bible.
1540	The English Bible set up in Churches.
1540	Lyndsay’s Satyre of the Thrie Estatis performed (printed 1602).
1540	Regius Professorships of Divinity, Greek, Hebrew, Law and Physic established at Cambridge and Oxford.
1540	John Cheke regius professor of Greek at Cambridge.
1541	Henry VIII’s first act against sorcery and magic.
1541	Death of Paracelsus.
1542–1547	Andrew’s Boorde’s Fyrste Boke of the Introduction of Knowledge.
1542, 1548, 1550	Hall’s Chronicle.
1543	The Necessary Doctrine and Erudition of a Christian Man.
1543, 1557	The history of King Richarde III.
1543	Death of Copernicus.
1544	The Litany in English.
1544	Death of Clément Marot.
1545	Montemayor’s Diana Enamorada.
1545	Ascham’s Toxophilus.
1545	King Henry’s Primer.
1545	Council of Trent opens.
1546	Leland’s Laboriouse Journey and Serche.
1546	Henry VIII founds Trinity College, Cambridge, by combining earlier halls, etc.
1546	Death of Luther.
c. 1546	The Gude and Godlie Ballatis.
1547	The first book of Homilies.
1547	Execution of the earl of Surrey.
1547–1553	King Edward VI.
1548	John Bon and Mast Parson.
c. 1548, 1549	The Complaynt of Scotland.
1548, 1549, 1562	Sternhold and Hopkins’s Psalms.
1549	Joachim du Bellay: Défense et Illustration de la Langue Française.
1549	La Pléiade (Pierre de Ronsard, Jodelle, Belleau, Baïf, Daurat, Pontus de Thyard and Joachim du Bellay).
1549	The first prayer-book of Edward VI.
1549	Dedekind’s Grobianus.
1550	Robert Crowley’s One and Thirty Epigrams.
c. 1550	The Wyll of the Devyll.
1552 (?)	Birth of Sir Walter Ralegh
1552	The second prayer-book of Edward VI.
1552	Christ’s Hospital founded.
1553	Wilson’s Arte of Rhetorique.
1553	Execution of Servetus.
1553	Death of Rabelais.
1553–1558	Queen Mary I.
1554	Lazarillo de Tormes.
1555	Execution of Latimer.
1556	Death of Nicholas Udall, author of Ralph Roister Doister.
1556	Execution of Cranmer.
1557	Tottel’s Miscellany.
1557	Tusser’s Hundreth good pointes of husbandrie.
1557	North’s trans. of Guevara’s El Relox de Principes.
1557	Recorde’s Whetstone of Wit (the first English algebra).
1557	Death of Pietro Aretino.
1557	Stationers’ company incorporated.
1558	Margaret of Navarre’s Heptameron.
1558	Knox’s First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstruous Regiment of Women.
1558–1603	Queen Elizabeth.
1559	A Mirror for Magistrates (first quarto).
1559	Foxe’s Actes and Monuments, in Latin (in English, 1563).
1559	Jacques Amyot translates Plutarch.
1559	Act of Uniformity.
1559	The Elizabethan prayer-book.
1560	Buchanan’s Franciscanus.
1560	Death of Melanchthon.
1561	Awdeley’s Fraternitye of Vacabones.
1561	More’s Utopia trans. into English by Robynson.
1561	Hoby’s trans. of Castiglione’s Il Cortegiano.
1561	Gorboduc acted in Inner Temple Hall.
1561	Scaliger’s Poetics.
1561	Merchant Taylors’ School founded.
1562	Jewel’s Apology for the Church of England.
1562	(written after) Sir Humphrey Gilbert’s Queene Elizabethes Achademy.
1563	Sackville’s Induction.
1563	Barnabe Googe’s Eglogs.
1563	Council of Trent closes.
1564	Bullein’s Dialogue against the Fever Pestilence.
1564	Birth of Marlowe.
1564	Birth of Galileo.
1564	Death of Calvin.
1565	Smith’s Commonwealth of England written (printed in 1583).
1565	Death of Michelangelo.
1565	Cinthio’s Hecatommithi.
c.1565–1566	The Geystes of Skoggan.
1566	Buchanan’s Psalms (2nd ed.).
1566	Gascoigne’s Supposes and Jocasta at Gray’s Inn.
1566	Gresham founds the Royal Exchange.
1566–1567	Painter’s Palace of Pleasure.
1567	Harman’s Caveat (2nd ed.).
1567	Fenton’s Tragicall Discourses.
1567	Turbervile’s Epitaphs, Epigrams, etc.
1568	The Bishops’ Bible.
1568	William Allen founds Douai.
1570	Ascham’s Scholemaster.
1571	The Act for the Incorporation of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
1572	Massacre of St. Bartholomew.
1572	Society of Antiquaries founded by Parker.
c. 1573	First edition of Gascoigne’s works.
1573(?)	Birth of Ben Jonson.
1574	Scot’s Perfite Platforme of a Hoppe-Garden.
1575	Gascoigne’s Notes of Instruction.
1575	Elizabeth visits Leicester at Kenilworth.
1575	Tasso completes Gerusalemme Liberata (1st complete ed. 1581).
1575	Birth of Jacob Boehme.
1576	The Petite Pallace of Pettie his Pleasure.
1576	The Paradyse of Daynty Devises.
1577–1580	Drake’s voyage round the world.
1578	Lyly’s Euphues.
1578	Holinshed’s Chronicles.
1578	A Gorgious Gallery of Gallant Inventions.
1578	Birth of William Harvey.
1579	The Shepheards Calender.
1579	North’s trans. of Plutarch.
1580	Sidney’s Arcadia begun (published, 1590).
1580	Lyly’s Euphues and his England.
1580	Stow’s Chronicles of England.
1580	Gabriel Harvey’s attempts on behalf of classical metres
1580	Montaigne’s Essays (1st ed.).
1580	Death of Camoens.
1580–1584	Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella written (pub. 1591).
1581	Mulcaster’s Positions.
1581	Thomas Howell’s Devises.
1582	Mulcaster’s Elementarie.
1582	Camden’s Britannia (trans. by Philemon Holland, 1610).
1582	Watson’s EKATOMIIA\??\IA.
1582	Codex Bezae given to Cambridge University.
1582	Edinburgh University founded.
1582	Death of St. Teresa.
Before 1583	Sidney’s Apologie for Poetrie written (printed 1595).
1583	Stubbes’s Anatomy of Abuses.
1584	A Handefull of pleasant delites.
1584	Reginald Scot’s Discoverie of Witchcraft.
1584	Sir Walter Mildmay founds Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
1585	Death of Pierre de Ronsard.
1585	Elizabeth assumes protection of Netherlands
1586	Knox’s Historie of the reformation of Scotland.
1586	Webbe’s Discourse of English Poetrie.
1586	Death of Sir Philip Sidney.
1587	Penry’s Aequity.
1587	Albericus Gentilis, regius professor of civil law, Oxford.
1587	Execution of Mary Stewart.
1588	Udall’s Diotrephes.
1588	Greene’s Pandosto and Perimedes the Blacksmith.
1588	The Spanish Armada.
1589	The Marprelate tracts.
1589	Nashe’s Anatomie of Absurditie.
1589	Greene’s Menaphon.
1589	The Arte of English Poesie.
1589, 1598–1600	Hakluyt’s Principall Navigations.
1590	Greene’s Mourning Garment and Never too late.
1590	Lodge’s Rosalynde.
1590	The Faerie Queene, Books I–III.
1591	Greene’s Notable Discovery of Coosnage.
1591	Trinity College, Dublin, founded.
1592	Nashe’s Pierce Pennilesse.
1592	Greene’s Quip for an Upstart Courtier and Blacke Bookes Messenger.
1592	Greene’s Groatsworth of Wit (licensed).
1592	Daniel’s Delia.
1592	Constable’s Diana.
1592	Death of Montaigne.
1593	Giles Fletcher’s Licia.
1593	Thomas Lodge’s Phillis.
1593	Barnabe Barnes’s Parthenophil and Parthenophe.
1593	Death of Marlowe.
1594	Hooker’s Ecclesiastical Polity, I–IV.
1594	Nashe’s Unfortunate Traveller and Terrors of the Night.
1594	Drayton’s Idea.
1594	La Satyre Ménippée.
1595	Spenser’s Amoretti.
1595	Richard Barnfield’s Cynthia.
1595	Death of Tasso.
1595–1596	The Faerie Queene, Books IV–VI.
1596	Ben Jonson’s Every Man in his Humour.
1596	Gresham College founded.
1597	Bacon’s Essayes (1st ed.).
1597	National scheme for relief of the poor formulated.
1598	Emanuel Ford’s Parismus.
1598	Death of Burghley.
1598	Restoration of the University Library, Oxford, by Sir Thomas Bodley.
1598	Edict of Nantes.
1598, 1603	Stow’s Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster.
1599	Nashe’s Lenten Stuffe.
1599	The Passionate Pilgrim.
1599	Guzman d’Alfarache.
1599	Death of Spenser.
1600	England’s Helicon.
1600	Gilbert’s De Magnete.
1600	Execution of Giordano Bruno.
1600	Foundation of the East India Company.
1602	Campion’s Observations in the Art of English Poesy.
1602(?)	Daniel’s Defence of Ryme.
1603	Florio’s trans. of Montaigne.
1603–1625	King James I. of England.
1604	Breton’s Passionate Shepheard.
1605	Bacon’s Advancement of Learning.
1605	Gunpowder plot.
1605–1615	Don Quixote.
1611	The Authorised Version.
1611	Speed’s Historie of Great Britaine.
1615	Camden’s Annales. Part 1. (Part II, 1627, 1629.)
1616	Death of Shakespeare.
1616	Death of Cervantes.
1619	Drayton’s Ideas Mirrour.
1620	Bacon’s Novum Organum.
1625–1649	King Charles I.
1628	Coke: The first part of the Institutes of the Laws of England.
1633	Fulke Greville’s Caelica published.
1641	Cavendish’s Life and Death of Thomas Woolsey (printed).