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William Shakespeare Timeline 1531 - 1592
1527 John Dee born
1531 Probable year of birth of Shakespeare's father, John Shakespeare

1532 Robert Dudley born

1533 Queen Elizabeth I the daughter of King Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn, was born
1540 Probable year of birth of Shakespeare's mother, Mary Arden

1552 Sir Walter Raleigh born

1557 Marriage of Shakespeare's father, John, at the age of 26 to Mary Arden, aged 17 years
1557 John Shake-speare was elected as ale-taster of the Borough of Stratford
1558 November 17, Accession of Queen Elizabeth, Elizabeth succeeded her Catholic sister Mary I and
re-established the Protestant Anglican Church. (Reigned 1558 - 1603)
1558 Joan, the first child of John and Mary, sister to William, was born but only survived two months
when she died of the Bubonic plague (Black Death)

1561 Sir Francis Bacon born

1564 February 6 Birth of Christopher Marlowe
1564 April 23 William Shakespeare was born
1564 April 26,William Shakespeare's baptism
1565 John Shake-speare became Alderman

1566 King James I born - Reigned 1603-1625; Robert Devereux born to Queen, adopted
1567 Birth of Richard Burbage (Actor)
1568 John Shake-speare became Bailiff of Stratford (equivalent to Mayor)

1568 Dee published Propaedeumata Aphoristica and presented the work about Mathematics, Astrology and magic and to Queen Elizabeth

1569 Another daughter, also called Joan was born (sister to William)
1570 John Shakespeare became Chief Alderman
1570 John Shakespeare was accused in the Exchequer Court of Usury for lending money at the rate of
20% and 25% Interest
1570 The excommunication of Elizabeth I by the Catholic Church
1570 The application of John Shakespear to bear a Coat-of-Arms and for the title of Gentleman failed
1571 Anne Shakespeare was born
1571 September 28, Anne, sister of Shakespeare was baptised
1572 Birth of John Donne (Poet, Minister and Courtier)
1572 Leicester's men play Stratford
1572 Birth of Ben Johnson (Actor)
1576-1577 Bacon on tour In France; Marguerite Love Affair that led to Sonnets
1578 to 1582 The first of Shakespeare's ' Lost Years ' This period covers the time between Shakespeare
leaving school and his marriage to Anne Hathaway.
1578 Lord Strange's men play Stratford
1578 Essex's men play Stratford
1579 John Shake-speare was forced to mortgage Mary's estate, Asbies
1579 BACON'S CELESTIAL VISION to serve the Queen - his defining moment
1582 November 27, A marriage licence was issued by the Episcopal register at Worcester to Wm
Shaxpere and Anne Whateley of Temple Grafton, Warwickshire.
1582 November 28, A Marriage Bond on the episcopal register records issue to William Shagspeare and
Anne Hathwey of Shottery, Stratford

1584 Christopher Marlowe received his a bachelor's degree
1584 Jun 4, Virginia colony of Roanoke Island established by Sir Walter Raleigh
1585 William's twins, Hamnet and Judith Shakespeare, were born
1585 February 2, The baptism of Hamnet and Judith Shakespeare
1586 The Catholic Mary Queen of Scots, cousin of the Protestant Queen Elizabeth 1, tried for treason
1586 John Shake-speare was removed from the Board of Aldermen
1587 August 18, Virginia Dare born in Roanoke colony , the first English child born in North America
1587 The Catholic Mary Queen of Scots was publically executed by means of beheading
1587 Christopher Marlowe attained his Bachelor of Arts degree from Cambridge
1587 Christopher Marlowe writes Tanburlaine
1587 Earl of Leicester's troupe in Europe
1587 Open air amphitheatre The Rose, Bankside, Surrey is opened
1588 Spanish Armada of 132 ships sails for England and is defeated.

1588 Robert Dudley dies
1588 Christopher Marlowe writes Dr. Faustus
1589 William Shakespeare was named, with his parents, in a legal action against a neighbour called John
Lambert. The case was over a dispute about some land in Wilmcote
1590 Christopher Marlowe writes The Jew of Malta
1590 to 1592 Shakespeare writes parts 1, 2, and 3 of Henry VI.
1592 March 3, Henry VI Part 1 is produced by Strange's Men at the Rose Theatre
1592 September 3, Death of Robert Greene author of Groatsworth of Wit in which he complains about
Shakespeare as an "upstart crow"
1592 December, Robert Greene's editor Henry Chettle made a public apology to Marlowe and
Shakespeare for the Groatsworth of Wit
1592 December 25, Shakespeare's father is fined for missing church

Timeline 1593 - 1670
1593 Theatres close due to the Bubonic Plague (The Black Death)
1593 Shake-speare begins writing the Sonnets which were probably completed in 1597
1593 April 18, Registration of Venus and Adonis. Published by Richard Field (1561 - 1624).
1593 May 30, Death of Christopher Marlowe
1594 The Lord Chamberlain's Company (formally known as 'Lord Stranges Men' was formed.

1594: Francis Bacon wrote “Gesta Gragorum”
1594 January 24, Titus Andronicus first performed
1594 February 6, Titus Andronicus registered
1594 March 12, Henry VI Part 2 registered
1594 May 9, Registration of The Rape of Lucrece
1594 December 28, Confirmed performance of The Comedy of Errors
1595 Shakespear achieves prosperity and recognition as the leading London Playwright
1595 Sir Walter Raleigh explores the Orinoca

1595 Open air amphitheatre The Swan, Paris Garden, Surrey is opened
1595 March 15, First document mentioning Shakespeare connected with the theatre
1596 The company of actors moved to the Swan Theatre on Bankside when London's authorities banned
the public presentation of plays within the city limits of London
1596 The tax returns show that Shakespeare was a resident of Bishopsgate in London
1596 Open air amphitheatre The (second) Blackfriars, Blackfriars, London
1596 Jan 28, Sir Francis Drake dies of the plague while at sea
1596 August 11, Hamnet died, possibly from the plague, at the age of eleven. He was
buried in Stratford
1596 October 20, John Shake-speare Granted Coat of Arms
1597 May 4, Shakespeare purchased New Place, the second largest house in Stratford for £60.

1594: Francis Bacon wrote “Gesta Gragorum”
1597 First Quarto editions of Richard III, Richard II, and Romeo and Juliet.
1597 August 29, Registration of Richard II
1597 October 20, Registration of Richard III
1598 Shakespeare is mentioned as "a principal comedian."
1598 Shakespeare is mentioned as among the chief holders of corn and malt in Stratford.
1598 Shakespeare and other members of the company financed the building of the Globe Theatre
1598 King Phillip II of Spain dies.
1598 First Quarto editions of Love's Labour's Lost and 1 Henry IV
1598 February 25, 1598 Registration of Henry IV Part 1
1598 July 22, Registration of The Merchant of Venice
1599 Shakespeare is recorded as having sold a load of stone to the Stratford corporation in 1599.
1599 The Globe is built on Bankside
1599 Edmund Spenser dies
1599 The Queen's favourite Robert Earl of Essex was sent to calm the rebels in Ireland but fails
1600 The opening of the Fortune Theatre, Golding Lane
1600 First production of Julius Caesar at the Globe theatre
1600 August 4, Registration of As You Like It
1600 August 23, Registration of Henry IV part 2
1600 October 8 Registration of A Midsummer's Nights Dream
1601 Essex rebels against Queen Elizabeth but fails and is executed February 25
1601 February 7, First Recorded production of Richard II
1601 Thomas Nashe dies
1601 Shakespeare's acting troupe, the Chamberlain's Men, were commissioned to stage Richard II at
the Globe.
1601 September 8, Burial of John Shakespeare (Shakespeare's father, nearly seventy years old. He had
been married to Mary Arden for forty-four years.

1601 Robert, Earl of Essex, tried for treason and executed
1602 January 8, Registration of The Merry Wives of Windsor
1602 February 2, First Recorded production of Twelfth Night
1602 May 1, Shakespeare buys land in Stratford for £320
1602 November, Shakespeare purchased a cottage across from New Place, his private residence in
Stratford.
1603 Shakespeare acted in Jonson's Sejanus and is mentioned as "a principal tragedian."
1603 First printing of Hamlet
1603 Sir Walter Raleigh arrested, tried and imprisoned.
1603 The Bubonic Plague (The Black Death) again ravages London killing 33,000 people
1603 March 24, Queen Elizabeth dies
1603 James the VI of Scotland, the son of Mary Queen of Scots, became the new monarch, known in
England as King James I
1603 May 19, The King's Men acting troupe forms.
1603 February, Registration of Troilus and Cressida
1604 First performance of Othello
1604 Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford dies
1604 February 7, 1604 First Recorded production of Troilus and Cressida
1604 December 26, First performance of Measure for Measure
1605 The Gunpowder Plot. Guy Fawkes arrested and executed in gruesome manner

1605: Francis Bacon wrote “The Advancement of Learning”
1606 December 26, First recorded performance of King Lear. Richard Burbage, was the original Lear.
1606 July 15, The famous artist Rembrandt was born
1607 June 5, Marriage of Shakespeare's daughter Susanna to Dr. John Hall
1607 December 31, Edmund Shakespeare, brother of William, is buried
1607 The founding of Jamestown
1608 The Bubonic Plague (The Black Death) again ravages London
1608 Shakespeare is mentioned as one of "the mens' players" (The King's Men)
1608 May 20, Registration of Pericles
1608 John Dee dies

1608 King's Men buy the Blackfriars Theatre Shakespeare, became part owner in the theatre

1609 Publication of Shakespeare's sonnets by Thomas Thorpe, without Shakespeare's permission.
1611 First recorded performances of The Winter's Tale, Macbeth, and Cymbeline
1611 November 1, First Recorded production of The Tempest
1611 The first known production of The Tempest took place before King James I and his court.
1611 November 5, The Winter's Tale performed at court
1612 February 12, Gilbert, William's brother dies
1612 Roger Manners, Fifth Earl of Rutland dies
1613 Francis Bacon becomes Attorney General
1613 February 4 Richard, brother of Shakespeare dies
1613 June 29, Fire at the Globe Theatre
1614 Globe Theatre was rebuilt
1614 Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the World is published
1614 Shakespeare wrote his final play - The Two Noble Kinsmen
1616 Open air amphitheatre The Cockpit, Drury Lane, Westminster is opened

1616 March 25, William Shakespeare signs his will
1616 April 23, William Shakespeare dies
1616 April 25, Burial of William Shakespeare in the chancel of Holy Trinity Church in Stratford.
1616 November - Shakespeare Quiney, Judith Quiney's son ( Anne and William Shakespeare's
grandson) was born
1620: Francis Bacon wrote “Novum Organum”

1622: Sir Francis Bacon wrote “Historia Naturalis et Experimentalis”. “History of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh"

1623: Sir Francis Bacon wrote "De Augmentis Scientarum"

1623 Shakespeare's THE FIRST FOLIO published.

1624: Sir Francis Bacon wrote "Apothegms"

1625: Sir Francis Bacon wrote “Slyva Sylvanum” (including New Atlantis)

1625 King James I dies and his son, Charles I accedes to the English throne (reigns 1625 - 1649)
1626 Sir Francis Bacon dies

SIR FRANCIS BACON

timeline about the bio, life and history of Sir Francis Bacon:

1561: Francis Bacon was born on 22nd January 1561 at York House, The Strand, London, England
His father was Sir Nicholas Bacon, the Lord Keeper of the Seal, and Lady Anne Cooke an intellectual and daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke, the tutor to the Tudor royal family. Lady Anne Cooke was also sister-in-law to Sir William Cecil (Lord Burghley)
1573: Entered Trinity College, Cambridge at the age of 12
1576: Studied Law at Grays Inn, London
1577: Interrupted his studies to take up an appointment of an assistant to Sir Amias Paulet, the ambassador in France
1582: Became a barrister
1584: Took up his seat in parliament in the House of Commons 1584 for Melcombe in Dorset, and subsequently for Taunton (1586
1586: Took up his seat in parliament for Taunton
1588: Francis Bacon was named lecturer in legal studies at Gray’s Inn
1592: Francis Bacon entered the service of Robert Devereux the Queen's favorite Earl of Essex
1593: Openly criticised the new tax levy and offended Queen Elizabeth I in the process
1594: Francis Bacon wrote “Gesta Gragorum”
1596: Queen Elizabeth relented and appointed Francis Bacon as a member of her Extraordinary Counsel
1597: Francis Bacon wrote “The Colours of Good and Evil”
1601: He became one of the Prosecutors of the Earl of Essex, even though he had originally been one of his supporters
1603: Queen Elizabeth dies on 24 March 1603 of of blood poisoning. James I of England, James VI of Scotland, is proclaimed King
1603: He was knighted by the new King, King James the First
1605: Francis Bacon wrote “The Advancement of Learning”
1604: Appointed King’s Counsel
1607: Appointed Solicitor General
1608: Appointed Clerk of the notorious Star Chamber
1613: Appointed Attorney General
1616: Made a member of the Privy Council
1617: Appointed Lord Keeper of the Royal Seal
1617: 10 May 1617 Francis Bacon married Alice Barnham
1618: Appointed Lord Chancellor
1620: Francis Bacon wrote “Novum Organum”
1621: Bestowed the titles of Lord Verulam of Verulam and then created Viscount St Albans
1621 He was arrested and charged with bribery. After pleading guilty, he was heavily fined and sentenced to a prison term in the Tower of London. He was a disgraced and fallen man
1622: Sir Francis Bacon wrote “Historia Naturalis et Experimentalis”. “History of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh"
1623: Sir Francis Bacon wrote "De Augmentis Scientarum"
1624: Sir Francis Bacon wrote "Apothegms"
1625: Sir Francis Bacon wrote “Slyva Sylvanum” (including New Atlantis)
1626: Sir Francis Bacon died on 9 April, 1626 of pneumonia contracted whilst testing his theory of the preservative and insulating properties of snow

Famous Elizabethan Playwrights and Authors and their works
1588 Greene's Pandosto
1588 Marlowe's Dr. Faustus
1590 Spenser's Faerie Queen (1-3)
1590 Marlowe's The Jew of Malta
1591 Sidney'sAstrophil and Stella
1592 Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy
1592 Shake-speare's Henry VI Part I
1592 Shake-speare's Henry VI, Part II
1593 Shake-speare's Henry VI, Part III

1594: Francis Bacon wrote “Gesta Gragorum”
1594 Greene's Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay
1594 Marlowe's Edward II
1594 Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus
1594 Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors
1594 Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew
1594 Shakespeare's Shakespeare'sTwo Gentlemen of Verona
1594 Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost
1595 Sidney's An Apologia for Poetrie
1595 Shake-speare's Romeo and Juliet
1595 Shake-speare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
1596 Shake-speare's The Merchant of Venice
1596 Spenser's Faerie Queen (4-6)

1597: Francis Bacon wrote “The Colours of Good and Evil”
1597 Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I
1597 Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part II
1598 Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing
1598 Shakespeare's Henry V
1598 Jonson Every Man in his Humour
1599 Shake-speare's As You Like It
1599 Jonson Every Man out of his Humour
1600 Shake-speare's Julius Caesar
1600 Kemp's Nine Daies Wonder
1600 Dekker's Shoemaker's Holiday
1600 Jonson Cynthia's Revels
1601 Shakespeare's Richard II
1601 Jonson Poetaster
1600 Shakespeare's Richard III
1600 Shakespeare's Hamlet
1600 Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor
1602 Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
1602 Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well
1603 Jonson Sejanus
1604 Marston's The Malcontent
1604 Shake-speare's Troilus and Cressida
1604 Shake-speare's Measure for Measure
1604 Shake-speare's Othello
1605 Jonson Volpone
1605 Bacon's The Advancement of Learning
1606 Shake-speare's King Lear
1606 Shake-speare's Macbeth
1606 Shake-speare's Antony and Cleopatra
1606 Ben Jonson's Volpone
1607 Shakespeare's Coriolanus
1607 Beaumont and Fletcher Knight of the Burning Pestle
1607 Shake-speare's Timon of Athens
1607 Tourneur's The Revenger's Tragedy
1608 Shake-speare's Pericles
1609 Ben Jonson's The Silent Woman
1609 Beaumont & Fletcher's The Knight of the Burning Pestle
1610 Ben Jonson's The Alchemist
1610 Beaumont and Fletcher Philaster
1611 Shakespeare's Tempest
1611 Beaumont and Fletcher The Maid's Tragedy
1611 Beaumont and Fletcher A King and No King
1611 Shake-speare's Macbeth
1611 Ben Jonson's Catiline
1611 Shake-speare's The Winter's Tale
1612 Webster's The White Devil
1612 Shakespeare's Henry VIII
1612 Shakespeare's The Two Noble Kinsmen
1613 Beaumont and Fletcher The Scornful Lady
1614 Jonson's Bartholomew Fayre
1614 Webster's Duchess of Malfi
1614 Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the World
1616 Ben Jonson's Workes published in folio
1618 Beaumont and Fletcher The Humorous Lieutenant
1623 Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio

1620: Francis Bacon wrote “Novum Organum”

1622: Sir Francis Bacon wrote “Historia Naturalis et Experimentalis”. “History of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh"

1623: Sir Francis Bacon wrote "De Augmentis Scientarum"

1624: Sir Francis Bacon wrote "Apothegms"

1625: Sir Francis Bacon wrote “Slyva Sylvanum” (including New Atlantis)

1624 Thomas Middleton A Game at Chess

John Dee via a comprehensive timeline:

John Dee was born 13 July 1527
1503 -1566 Nostradamus was in the patronage of Catherine de Medici
1542 - 1546 John Dee studied Greek, Latin, philosophy, geometry, arithmetic and astronomy at Cambridge University
1546 - John Dee graduated with a B.A. in 1546
1547 - 1550 Studies and Lectures in Europe
1548 24 June arrived in Brussels where he studied with Gemma Frisius and Gerardus Mercator
1550 John Dee was in Antwerp
1551 John Dee brought instruments of navigation back from Europe
1552 John Dee returned to England under the patronage of the Earl of Pembroke and then the Duke of Northumberland
1552 John Dee under Royal patronage of King Edward VI
1553 John Dee became astrologer to the queen, Mary Tudor
1555 28 May - John Dee imprisoned for heresy and for being a magician accused of 'calculating' as a form of magic
1555 August 1 Edward Kelley was born
1555 August John Dee was released from prison
1555 - 1587 John Dee became a consultant to the Muscovy Company formed by the navigator and explorer Sebastian Cabot together with a number of London merchants which was granted a monopoly of Anglo-Russian trade and aimed to search for the Northeast Passage
1555 John Dee prepared nautical information, including navigation charts. He instructed the crews on geometry and cosmography before they left for voyages to North America in 1576.
15 January 1556 - Dee presents plans for a national library to Queen Mary - but the scheme did not receive official backing
1556 John Dee settles at his mother's house Mortlake in Richmond-upon-Thames where he establishes his own personal library
1559 January 15 - Elizabeth I became Queen of England and the coronation date was picked from a horoscope cast for her by John Dee
1562 John Dee in Antwerp - England passed the Witchcraft Statute
1564 John Dee leaves Antwerp
1568 Dee asserts that every object exerts force on every other
1568 he published Propaedeumata Aphoristica and presented the work about Mathematics, Astrology and magic and to Queen Elizabeth
1575 March 10 Queen Elizabeth I visited John Dee's library at Mortlake
1576 John Dee instructed the crews of the explorer Sebastian Cabot, on geometry and cosmography before they left for voyages to North America
1578 John Dee marries his third wife, Jane Fromond. They have eight children
1579 - John Dee's mother gives him the house at Mortlake
1581 - Dee and Edward Kelley start their "mystical experiments". Edward Kelley was a highly skilled medium who claimed to be able to contact angels and spirits which he did by gazing into a crystal ball
1581 John Dee begins experimenting with Angelic magic
1582 March 10 - John Dee and Edward Kelley start receiving the Heptarchia Mystica (John Dee became deeply involved in conversing with angels and spirits through Kelley and it dominated the latter part of his life)
1582 March 20 John Dee and Edward Kelley receive the Enochian alphabet
1583 March 29 John Dee and Edward Kelley start receiving Liber Logaeth
1583 May 8 John Dee and Edward Kelley are foretold by the Angel Uriel of the death of the Queen of Scots (this occurred in 1587) and the coming of the Spanish Armada (this occurred in 1588)
1583 - A mob destroyed a large part of John Dee's library at Mortlake
1584 - John Dee and Edward Kelley move to Cracow
1586 - John Dee and Edward Kelley move to Prague
1589 John Dee returns to England
1589 Edward Kelley stays in Prague and embarks on his public alchemical transmutations in Prague
1595 John Dee became warden of Manchester College
1595 Edward Kelley dies
1605 Jane (Fromond) Dee and several of their children die of plague in Manchester. Following this tragic event John Dee returned to live in London
1608 John Dee dies February 21 1608