Abdication of Mary Queen of Scots. Mercator's first chart. 1570. Ascham's The Schoolmaster. 1570. Middleton born. Dekker 1575. Gascoigne's Notes concern ing the Making of Verse. born? 1572. Knox died. Inigo Jones born. Camoens, Lusiads. 1573. Jonson born. Tasso's Aminta. 1576. Paradise of Dainty Devices. 1576. 1577. Holinshed's Chronicle, first 1577. edition. 1578. Titian died. The Theatre and the Curtain built. Drake began circumnavigation of the globe. W. Harvey born. 1579. Lodge's Defence of Stage 1579. J. Fletcher born. Plays. Lyly's Euphues, The Anatomy of Wit. North's translation of Plutarch. Spenser's Shepherd's Calendar. 1580. Lyly's Euphues and his Eng- 1580. Montaigne's Essais, i. and ii. land. Spenser and Har vey's Letters touching the Earthquake and English Stowe's An nals of England. Camoens died. 1581. Gosson's Plays Confuted. 1581. T. Heywood born? Tasso's 1590-91. 1st Henry VI. Mary Queen of Scots beheaded. The Invincible Armada defeated. 1596. Coat of Arms applied for by 1596. Merchant of Venice. his father. His only son died. 1596-97? Romeo and Juliet. 1597. Bought New Place, at Strat- 1597? Taming of the Shrew. ford-on-Avon. 1599. Became sharer in the newly 1599. Henry V. As You Like It. 1599. Jonson's Every Man out of 1599. built Globe Theatre. Cromwell born. Spenser Calderon born. Giordano 1601. Visited Scotland? His father 1601. Julius Cæsar. 11601. Jonson's The Poetaster. died. 1601-02? All's Well that Ends Well. 1602. Bought large tract of land 1602. Hamlet. near Stratford. 1601. Essex beheaded. 1603. Measure for Measure. Troi-1603. lus and Cressida, first version ? 1604. Othello. 1605. Invested £440 (= nearly $30,- 1605. King Lear. 000) in tithes. 1606. Macbeth. 1607. His daughter Susanna mar-1607. Antony and ried. 1608. His mother died. Troilus and Cressida ? 1607-08. Timon of Athens. 1608. Coriolanus. Pericles. 1610? Retired to Stratford. 1609. Cymbeline. 1610. The Tempest. 1610-11. Winter's Tale. 1612. Two Noble Kinsmen. 1612-13. Henry VIII. |