Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
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Events Timeline
Orlando includes short event entries, freestanding and embedded in author profiles, about moments and processes relevant to literary history and organized into four categories: Women writers, Writing Climate, Political Climate, and Social Climate. Explore the timelines by searching for date(s) and/or words or phrases associated with them.
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1518: The College of Physicians was chartered in...
1518
The
was chartered in London, and
became its first president.
2 May 1519: Leonardo da Vinci, painter, sculptor, and...
2 May 1519
, painter, sculptor, and scientist, died at Cloux (near Amboise, France).
Anne Askew: 1520-1
Women writers item
Author event in Anne Askew
1520-1
was born in Lincolnshire, perhaps the fifth of six siblings, though the number is uncertain.
Beilin suggests four siblings and two step-siblings, Wilson only a single step-brother, and the Oxford Dictionary of National...
Summer 1520: Hernando Cortés, a Spanish soldier of fortune...
National or international item
Summer 1520
, a Spanish soldier of fortune sent out in command of an expedition to Yucatán in Mexico, began what was almost a chance conquest of the Aztec Empire.
June 1520: Henry VIII met François I in an international...
National or international item
June 1520
met
in an international peace summit at Guines in France, later known as the Field of the Cloth of Gold.
1521: Alexander Barclay published the earliest...
1521
published the earliest French grammar in England, The Introductory to Write and to Pronounce French.
Margaret Roper: About 2 July 1521
Women writers item
Author event in Margaret Roper
About 2 July 1521
, aged only just sixteen, married
: the licence was issued on this day.
About September 1521: Erasmus reported his approval of his friend...
About September 1521
reported his approval of his friend
's action in giving his whole household an education in good literature (females equally with males).
Mary Basset: After 1523
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Basset
After 1523
was born into a family already well-known in English cultural life.
Her mother's marriage licence was issued on 2 July 1521. The Feminist Companion (like various submissions to the International Genealogical Index) calls...
1523: Juan Luis Vives of Valencia, while living...
1523
of Valencia, while living in England, wrote Satellitium, a plan of studies for
(daughter of
).
20 September 1523: Argula von Grumbach, a Bavarian whom many...
Writing climate item
20 September 1523
, a Bavarian whom many call the earliest Protestant woman writer, penned two polemical letters which were later published (one to the
and one to
March 1524: Erasmus's Abbatis et Eruditae was published...
March 1524
's Abbatis et Eruditae was published in his Colloquies.
Margaret Roper: After 1 October 1524
Women writers item
Author event in Margaret Roper
After 1 October 1524
's A Devout Treatise upon the Pater Noster (a translation of Precatio dominica in septem portiones distributa by
) appeared anonymously, in a first edition which seems not to survive.
Christine de Pisan: 1526
Writing climate item
Author event in Christine de Pisan
1526
's Proverbes moraulx, written in about 1400 for the education of her son, were reprinted in
's edition of
as The Morall proverbes of Christyne.
August 1526: Erasmus published his De Matrimonio Christiano,...
August 1526
published his De Matrimonio Christiano, an account of the kind of marriage relation (with the wife as partner, but junior partner) later favoured by the Puritans.
Before October 1526: William Tyndale completed and published,...
Writing climate item
Before October 1526
completed and published, at Worms in Germany, the first English translation of the New Testament to reach print.
Rose Hickman : 26 December 1526
Women writers item
Author event in Rose Hickman
26 December 1526
was born in London as Rose Locke or Lok, the third of her Protestant parents' eleven children.
1527: A young English priest, Thomas Cranmer, wrote...
1527
A young English priest,
, wrote two letters to
, whom he had met on a royal mission to the Holy Roman Emperor in Spain, where Dantiscus was then Polish ambassador.
Marguerite de Navarre: 24 January 1527
Writing climate item
Anne Bacon: Probably early 1528
Women writers item
Author event in Anne Bacon
Probably early 1528
Anne Cooke (later
) was born, probably at Gidea Hall in Essex, the second of the five celebrated daughters of the Cooke family.
About 1529: The Instruction of a Christian Woman, translated...
About 1529
The Instruction of a Christian Woman, translated by
from
of Valencia in Spain, was published, after the translator's death.
Katherine Parr: About May 1529
Women writers item
Author event in Katherine Parr
About May 1529
married her first husband,
; he died some time early in 1533.
1530: Hieronymus Fracastorius of Verona, Italy,...
1530
of Verona, Italy, first used the word syphilis in print to name the disease, in his poem Syphilis or The French Disease.
About the 1530s-1540s: The Devonshire Manuscript (British Library...
Women writers item
About the 1530s-1540s
The Devonshire Manuscript (
Add. 17492) was compiled in large part by women, who edited and probably wrote and transcribed a number of the poems. The title-page of
's edition, 2012...
Marguerite de Navarre: 1531
Writing climate item
Author event in Marguerite de Navarre
1531
's devotional work entitled Le miroir de l'âme pécheresse (in English The Mirror of the Sinful Soul) was published at Alençon.