The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907–21).
Volume IV. Prose and Poetry: Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton.
877 | Death of Johannes Scotus Erigena. |
1274 | Death of Thomas Aquinas. |
1294 | Death of Roger Bacon. |
1308 (?) | Death of Johannes Scotus Duns. |
1349 (?) | Death of William of Ockham. |
1413–1422 | King Henry V. |
1418 | Peterhouse library catalogued. |
1422–1471 | King Henry VI. |
1461–1483 | King Edward IV. |
c. 1470 | Fortescue’s De Laudibus Legum Angliae. |
1478 (?) | First book printed at Oxford. |
1483 | King Edward V. |
1483–1485 | King Richard III. |
1485–1509 | King Henry VII. |
1486 | Bartolommeo Diaz circumnavigates the Cape. |
c. 1486 | The Book of St. Albans. |
1488 | Library given by Humphrey, duke of Gloucester to Oxford opened. |
1492 | Columbus sets sail from Spain and discovers the West Indies. |
1494 | Sebastian Brant’s Narrenschiff printed at Basel. |
1497 | John Cabot discovers the mainland of America. |
1499 | Pinzon and Amerigo Vespucci rediscover America. |
1504 | The Lady Margaret’s preachership founded at Cambridge. |
1504 | Colet appointed dean of St. Paul’s. |
1506 | Death of Columbus. |
1508 | Chepman and Myllar print in Edinburgh. |
1509–1547 | King Henry VIII. |
1513 | Macchiavelli’s Prince (published, 1532). |
1515 | Earliest known ed. of Eulenspiegel. |
1516 | Ariosto’s Orlando Furiosa. |
1519 | Cortes reaches the capital of Mexico. |
1520 | Straits of Magellan crossed. |
1521–1522 | John Siberch prints books at Cambridge. |
1525 | Tindale’s New Testament, Worms. |
c. 1526 | A C. Mery Talys. |
1527 | Death of Macchiavelli. |
1528 | Simon Fish’s Supplication for the Beggars. |
1528 | Castiglione’s Il Cortegiano. |
c. 1529 | Latimer’s Sermons on the Card. |
1532–1564 | Rabelais’s Pantagruel. |
1533 | Death of Ariosto. |
1534 | Fitzherbert’s Husbandry. |
1535 | Execution of Fisher. |
1535 | First complete English Bible (Coverdale’s 1st ed.) printed. |
1537 | First Bible (Coverdale’s 2nd ed.) printed in England. |
1539 | “The Great Bible.” |
1546 | Leland’s Laboriouse Journey and Serche. |
1547–1553 | King Edward VI. |
1549 | Hales’s Commonweal written (published, 1581). |
1549 | Dedekind’s Grobianus. |
1549 | The first prayer-book of Edward VI. |
1550 | Lever: Three Sermons. |
1551 | More’s Utopia. |
1551 | Book of Common Prayer printed in Dublin. |
1551–1552 | Turner’s New herball |
1553 | Sir Hugh Willoughby sails for Cathay. |
1553 | Death of Rabelais. |
1553–1558 | Queen Mary I. |
1554 | New laws of York stationers confirmed by the corporation. |
1555 | Eden’s trans. of Peter Martyr’s Decades of the Newe Worlde. |
1555 | Execution of Latimer. |
1557 | Tusser’s Husbandrie. |
1557 | Stationers’ company incorporated. |
1557 | North’s The Diall of Princes (trans. from Guevara). |
1557 | Death of Pietro Aretino. |
1558 | Knox’s First Blast of the Trumpet against the monstruous Regiment of Women. |
1558–1603 | Queen Elizabeth. |
1559 | Jacques Amyot’s Plutarch. |
1561 | Awdeley’s Fraternitye of Vacabones. |
1561 | Hoby’s trans. of Castiglione’s Il Cortegiano. |
1562–1568 | Sir John Hawkins’s Voyages. |
1562 | Jewel’s Apology for the Church of England. |
1563 (or later) | Sir Humphrey Gilbert’s Queene Elizabethes Achademy. |
1563 | Severe visitation of the Plague in London. |
1564 | Birth of Galileo. |
1565 | Cinthio’s Hecatommithi. |
1565 | Golding’s Ovid. |
1565 | Smith’s Commonwealth of England written (printed, 1583). |
c. 1565–1566 | The Geystes of Skoggan. |
1566–1567 | Painter’s Palace of Pleasure. |
1567 | Fenton’s Tragicall Discourses. |
1567 | Harman’s Caveat (2nd ed.). |
1568 | The Bishops’ Bible. |
1570 | Ascham’s Scholemaster. |
1570 | First complete ed. of Aquinas. |
1572 | Parker founds Society of Antiquaries. |
1572 | Massacre of St. Bartholomew. |
1574 | Scot’s Perfite Platforme of a Hoppe-Garden. |
1576 | Fall of Antwerp. |
1576 | Wilson’s treatise on Usury. |
1576 | Rowland’s trans. of Lazarillo de Tormes. |
1576 | Sir Humphrey Gilbert’s Discourse … for a new passage to Cataia. |
1576–1577 | Martin Frobisher’s voyages. |
1577 | Drake’s circumnavigation. |
1578 | Harrison’s Description of England. |
1578 | Birth of William Harvey. |
1579 | Buchanan’s De Jure Regni apud Scotos. |
1579 | Digby’s Theoria analytica, viam ad monarchiam scientiarum demonstrans. |
1579 | North’s Plutarch. |
1579 | First Bible printed in Scotland, by Bassandyne and Arbuthnet. |
1580 | Montaigne’s Essays (1st ed.). |
1582 | Stanyhurst’s Vergil. |
1582 | Thomas Thomas university printer, Cambridge. |
1583 | Stubbes’s Anatomy of Abuses. |
1583 | Gilbert’s last expedition. |
1584 | Association for the preservation of the queen. |
1584 | Lodge’s An Alarum against Usurers. |
1584 | Temple’s ed. of Ramus’s Dialectica. |
1584 | Ralegh’s charter of colonisation. |
1584 | Reginald Scot’s Discoverie of Witchcraft. |
1586 | Warner’s Albion’s England. |
1587 | Mascall’s The government of Cattell. |
1587 | “Silver-tongued” Smith begins to lecture at St. Clement Danes. |
1587 | Execution of Mary queen of Scots. |
1588 | The Spanish Armada. |
1589 | Nashe’s The Anatomie of Absurditie. |
1589, 1598–1600 | Hakluyt’s Principall Navigations. |
1590 | Lodge’s Rosalynde. |
1590–1592 | Sylvester’s Du Bartas. |
1590 | The Faerie Queene, Books I–III. |
1591 | Harington’s Ariosto. |
1591 | Greene’s Notable Discovery of Coosnage. |
1592 | Samuel Daniel’s Delia and The Complaynt of Rosamond. |
1592 | Greene’s A Quip for an Upstart Courtier, and Groatsworth of Wit (licensed). |
1592 | Nashe’s Pierce Pennilesse. |
1592 | Death of Montaigne. |
1592 | Plague revives in London. |
1593 | Sir Richard Hawkins voyages into the South Sea. |
1593 | The Phoenix Nest. |
1593 | Drayton’s Idea. |
1593 | Nashe’s Christs Teares over Jerusalem. |
1594 | Drayton’s Ideas Mirrour. |
1594 | Nashe’s Terrors of the Night. |
1595 (?) | Drayton’s Endimion and Phoebe. |
1595 | Daniel’s The Civil Wars. |
1595 | Execution of Robert Southwell. |
1595 | Southwell’s St. Peters Complaint. |
1595 | Lodge’s A Fig for Momus. |
1595 | Maunsell’s Catalogue of English Printed Books. |
1595 | Davys’s Worlde’s Hydrographical Description. |
1595 | Ralegh’s first expedition to Guiana. |
1595–1596 | The Faerie Queene, Books IV–VI. |
1596 | Danett’s Commines. |
1596 | Ralegh’s Fight about the Iles of the Açores. |
1596 | Drayton’s Mortimeriados. |
1596 | Nashe’s Have With You to Saffron Walden. |
1597 | Bacon’s Essays (1st ed.). |
1597 | Drayton’s Heroicall Epistles. |
1597 | Hall’s Virgidemiarum. |
1597 | Discoverie of the Knights of the Poste. |
1597 | Gerard’s Herball. |
1597 | National scheme for relief of the poor formulated. |
1598 | Meres’s Palladis Tamia. |
1598 | Florio’s A Worlde of Wordes. |
1598 | Chapman’s Iliad. |
1598 | Death of Burghley. |
1598 | Bedingfield’s trans. of Macchiavelli’s Florentine Historie. |
1598 | Restoration of the University library, Oxford, by Sir Thomas Bodley. |
1599 | Nashe’s Lenten Stuffe. |
1599 | Daniel’s Musophilus. |
1599 | The Passionate Pilgrim. |
1599 | Death of Spenser. |
1599 | Sir John Davies’s Nosce Teipsum. |
1599 | Marston’s Scourge of Villanie. |
1600 | Gilbert’s De Magnete. |
1600 | England’s Helicon. |
1600 | Execution of Giordano Bruno. |
1600–1601 | Cornwallis’s Essays. |
1600 | Rowlands’s The Letting of Humours Blood in the Head Vaine. |
1600 | Foundation of the East India Company. |
1601 | Campion’s Booke of Ayres (also 1612 and 1617). |
1602 | Davison’s Poetical Rapsody. |
1602 | Bodleian library opened. |
1602 | Rowlands’s Tis Merrie when Gossips meete. |
1602 | Campion’s Observations in the Art of English Poesy. |
1602 (?) | Daniel’s Defence of Ryme. |
1603 | Florio’s Montaigne. |
1603 | Dekker’s The Wonderfull Yeare. |
1603 | Holland’s trans. of Plutarch’s Morals. |
1603 | Knolles’s Generall Historie of the Turkes. |
1603 | Barclay’s Euphormionis Satyricon, 1st part. |
1603–1625 | King James I of England. |
1603 | King James’s The true Law of Free Monarchies. |
1603 | Plague in London. |
1605 | Bacon’s Advancement of Learning. |
1605 | Gunpowder Plot. |
1605–1615 | Don Quixote. |
1606 | Drayton’s Odes. |
1606 | Owen’s 1st vol. of Epigrammata. |
1606 | Dekker’s The Seven Deadly Sinnes of London. |
1606 | Dekker’s Newes from Hell. |
1607 | Gervase Markham’s Cavelarice, or the English Horseman. |
1607 | Topsell’s Fourefooted Beastes. |
1607 | First permanent English colony in Virginia. |
1608 | Hall’s Characters. |
1608 | Dekker’s The Belman of London. |
1609 | Dekker’s The Guls Hornebooke. |
1609 | Pimlyco, or Runne Red Cap. |
1610 | John Davies of Hereford’s The Scourge of Folly. |
1610 | Donne’s Pseudo-Martyr. |
1610 | Giles Fletcher’s Christs Victorie. |
1610 | Phineas Fletcher’s The Purple Island. |
1610 | Markham’s Maister-peece. |
1610–1613 | Chrysostom printed at Sir Henry Savile’s press, Eton. |
1611 | Coryats Crudities. |
1611 | Ralegh’s History of the World entered on Stationers’ register; published 1614 or 1615. |
1611 | The “Authorised Version.” |
1612 | Death of prince Henry. |
1614 | Thomas Lodge’s Seneca. |
1614 | Barclay’s Icon Animorum. |
1611–1612 | Donne’s The Anatomy of the World. |
1612 | Campion’s Two Bookes of Ayres. |
1612 | Shelton’s Don Quixote, I. |
1612 | Marriage of princess Elizabeth. |
1613 | Drummond of Hawthornden’s Tears on the Death of Moeliades. |
1613 | Wither’s Abuses stript and whipt. |
1613–1616 | Browne’s Britannia’s Pastorals. |
1613–1622 | Drayton’s Poly-Olbion. |
1614 | The Overbury Characters published. |
1615 | Wither’s The Shepherd’s Hunting. |
1615 | Stephens’s Satyricall Essayes. |
1615 | Sandys’s Relation of a Journey. |
1616 | Death of Shakespeare. |
1616 | Death of Cervantes. |
1618 | Ralegh executed. |
1618 | Beginning of the Thirty Years’ War. |
1620 | The Pilgrim Fathers land in New England. |
1620 | Bacon’s Novum Organum. |
1621 | Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy. |
1621 | Barclay’s Argenis. |
1623 | First folio of Shakespeare. |
1623 | Drummond of Hawthornden’s Flowers of Sion. |
1624 | Bacon’s New Atlantis written. |
1624 | Herbert’s De Veritate. |
1624 | Donne’s BIA\??\ANATO\??\. |
1624 | Smith’s General History of Virginia. |
1625 | Purchas His Pilgrimes. |
1625–1649 | King Charles I. |
1626 | Death of Lancelot Andrewes. |
1627 | Drayton’s Nimphidia. |
1627 | Phineas Fletcher’s The Locusts or Apollyonists. |
1628 | Owen Feltham’s Resolves (first complete edition). |
1628 | Earle’s Microcosmographie. |
1629 | Parkinson’s Paradisi in sole Paradisus terrestris. |
1630 | Drayton’s The Muses Elizium. |
1631 | Phineas Fletcher’s Sicelides. |
1633–1635 | Collections of Donne’s poems. |
1639 | Death of Sir Henry Wotton. |
1640 | Parkinson’s Theatrum Botanicum. |
1640 1649, 1669 | Donne’s Sermons published. |
1641 | Ben Jonson’s Timber. |
1651 | Reliquiae Wottonianae. |
1652 | Fulke Greville’s Life of Sir Philip Sidney. |