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The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907–21).
Volume IV. Prose and Poetry: Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton.

Table of Principal Dates

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.