CHRONOLOGY
Henry VIII (1509-1547)
Edward VI (1547-1553)
1552
Birth of Edmund Spenser
1552-53
The Courtier translated
Mary Tudor (1553-1558)
1554
Birth of Sir Philip Sidney
1557
Tottel's Miscellany
Elizabeth I (1558-1603)
1564
Birth of Christopher Marlowe
1564
Birth of William Shakespeare
1570 Excommunication of Elizabeth by Pope
1572
Birth of John Donne
1576 Construction of the Theatre on the South Bank
1584-86 Unsuccessful attempts to colonize Virginia
1586
Death of Sir Philip Sidney
1587
Tamburlaine performed
1588 Defeat of the Spanish Armada
1590
Faerie Queene I-III
1590
Tamburlaine published
1593
Birth of George Herbert
1593
Death of Marlowe
1595
Sidney's Defence of Poetry
1599
Death of Edmund Spenser
1599-1601
Hamlet
James I (1603-1625)
1604 Hampton Court Conference
1605 Gunpowder Plot
1607 Foundation of colony in Virginia
1608 Birth of John Milton
1610 Galileo's Starry Messenger
1611 Publication of Authorized Version of the Bible
1616
Death of Shakespeare
1620 Mayflower Expedition
Charles I (1625-1649)
1631
Death of John Donne
1632 Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Principal Systems
1633
Death of George Herbert
1633
Donne's Songs and Sonnets
1633
Herbert's The Temple
1642-6 English Civil War
1645
Poems of Mr John Milton
1649 Execution of Charles I
1649-1660 The Commonwealth (Inter-regnum)
Charles II (1660-16xx)
1667
First edition of Paradise Lost
1674
Death of John Milton