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Events
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- Marie Dentière writes an open letter to Marguerite of Navarre, sister of the King of France; the Epistre tres utile, or "very useful letter", calls for an expulsion of Catholic clergy from France.
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- Torquato Tasso enters the service of Cardinal Luigi d'Este at Ferrara.
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- October 14 - António Ferreira becomes Desembargador da Casa do Civel and leaves Coimbra for Lisbon.
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- Michel de Montaigne retires from public life and isolates himself in the tower of the Château de Montaigne.
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- English law eliminates actors' companies lacking formal patronage, by labelling them "vagabonds".
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- Sir Philip Sidney meets Penelope Devereaux, the inspiration for his Astrophel and Stella.
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- James Burbage builds The Theatre, the first permanent public playhouse in London, to open the great age of Elizabethan drama.
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- A troupe of boy actors, the Children of Paul's, are suppressed because of their playwright John Lyly's role in the Marprelate controversy.
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- Ben Jonson is briefly jailed in Marshalsea Prison, after the suppression of his play, The Isle of Dogs.
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- September 22 - Ben Jonson kills actor Gabriel Spenser in a duel; he is convicted of manslaughter and imprisoned in Newgate Prison.
New books
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- The Book of Margery Kempe (posthumous)
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- Georges Chastellain - Récollections des merveilles advenues en mon temps (posthumous)
- Stephen Hawes
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- Henry Medwall - Fulgens and Lucrece
- Huldrych Zwingli - De Gestis inter Gallos et Helvetios relatio
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- First translation of Virgil's Aeneid into English language (Scots dialect) by Gavin Douglas
1514-15
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- Gian Giorgio Trissino - Sofonisba
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- Robert Fabyan - The New Chronicles of England and France
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- Francysk Skaryna's Bible translation and printing
- Teofilo Folengo's Baldo, a popular Italian work of comedy.
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- Philippe de Commines - Mémoires (Part 1: Books 1-6); first publication (Paris)
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- Hector Boece - Historia Scotorum
- Philippe de Commines - Mémoires (Part 2: Books 7-8); first publication
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- Michael Servetus - De trinitatis erroribus ("On the Errors of the Trinity")
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- Martin Luther's Bible translation
- François Rabelais - Gargantua
- Polydore Vergil - Historia Anglica
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- Jean Calvin - Institutes of the Christian Religion (in Latin)
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- Hélisenne de Crenne - Les Angoisses douloureuses qui procèdent d'amours
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- Sir Thomas Elyot - The Castel of Helth
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- Historia Scotorum of Hector Boece, translated into vernacular Scots by John Bellenden at the special request of James V of Scotland
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- Baptistes
- Jephtha
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- Paul Fagius - Liber Fidei seu Veritatis
- Edward Hall - The Union of the Two Noble and Illustrate Famelies of Lancastre & Yorke
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- Andreas Vesalius - De humani corporis fabrica libri septem (On the Fabric of the Human body in Seven Books)
- Nicolaus Copernicus - De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres)
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- Roger Ascham - Toxophilus
- Bernard Etxepare - Linguae Vasconum Primitiae
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- François Rabelais - Le tiers livre
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- Martynas Mažvydas - The Simple Words of Catechism (first printed book in Lithuanian language)
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- Johannes Aal - Johannes der Täufer (St. John Baptist)
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- Martin Bucer - De regno Christi
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- François Rabelais - Le quart livre
- Gerónimo de Santa Fe - Hebræomastix (posthumous)
- Libellus de Medicinalibus Indorum Herbis (Little Book of the Medicinal Herbs of the Indians), composed in Nahuatl by Martín de la Cruz and translated into Latin by Juan Badiano.
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- Francesco Patrizi - La Città felice ("The Happy City")
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- anon - Lazarillo de Tormes
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- The Elizabethan version of the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England, which remained in use until the mid-17th century and was the first English Prayer Book in America.
- Jorge de Montemayor - Diana
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- Jacques Grévin - Jules César
- William Whittingham, Anthony Gilby, Thomas Sampson - Geneva Bible
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- William Bullein - Bullein's Bulwarke of Defence againste all Sicknes, Sornes, and Woundes
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- Camillo Porzio - La Congiura dei baroni
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- Joan Perez de Lazarraga - Silbero, Silbia, Doristeo, and Sirena (MS in Basque language)
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- Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga - La Araucana, part 1
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- François de Belleforest - La Pyrénée (or La Pastorale amoureuse) (the first French "pastoral novel")
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- Friedrich Risner - Opticae thesaurus
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- Jean Boudin - Six livres de la République
- George Pettie - A Petite Palace of Pettie His Pleasure
- The Paradise of Dainty Devices, the most popular of the Elizabethan verse miscellanies
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- Richard Eden - The History of Travayle in the West and East Indies
- Thomas Hill - The Gardener's Labyrinth
- Raphael Holinshed - The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Irelande
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- George Best - A True Discourse of the Late Voyages of Discoverie…under the Conduct of Martin Frobisher
- John Florio - First Fruits
- Jaroš Griemiller - Rosarium philosophorum
- Gabriel Harvey - Smithus, vel Musarum lachrymae
- John Lyly - Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit
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- Stephen Gosson - The Schoole of Abuse
- Thomas Lodge - Honest Excuses
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- George Buchanan - Rerum Scoticarum Historia
- Richard Hakluyt - Divers Voyages
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- Philip Stubbes - The Anatomy of Abuses
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- Reginald Scot - The Discovery of Witchcraft
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- John Knox - Historie of the Reformatioun of Religioun within the Realms of Scotland
- John Lyly - Pappe with an hatchet, alias a figge for my Godsonne
- George Puttenham (attr.) - The Arte of English Poesie
- Luis Barahona de Soto - Primera parte de la Angélica
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- Thomas Hariot - A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia
- Thomas Nashe - The Anatomie of Absurditie
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- Thomas Lodge - Rosalynde
- Thomas Nashe - An Almond for a Parrat
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- Robert Greene - Greene's Groatsworth of Wit
- Gabriel Harvey - Foure Letters and certaine Sonnets
- Richard Johnson - Nine Worthies of London
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- Sir John Davys - The Seamans Secrets
- Richard Hooker - Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
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- Sir Philip Sidney (posthumous) - Defense of Poesy, a.k.a. An Apologie for Poetrie
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- Sir Walter Raleigh - The Discoverie of the Large, Rich and Beautiful Empyre of Guiana
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- John Bodenham - Politeuphuia (Wits' Commonwealth)
- King James VI of Scotland - The Trew Law of Free Monarchies
- Francis Meres - Palladis Tamia, Wits Treasury
- John Stow - Survey of London
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- John Bodenham - Wits' Theater
New drama
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- The World and the Child, also known as Mundas et Infans (probable date of composition)
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- Hans Ackermann - Der Verlorene Sohn
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- Marin Držić - Dundo Maroje
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- (about 1553) – Gammer Gurton's Needle and Ralph Roister Doister, the first comedies written in the English language
- António Ferreira - Bristo
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- Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville - Gorboduc
- Jack Juggler - anonymous, sometimes attributed to Nicholas Udall
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- George Gascoigne - Supposes
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- Ulpian Fulwell - Like Will to Like
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- Giovanni Battista Guarini - Il pastor fido
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- John Lyly
- George Peele - The Arraignment of Paris
- Robert Wilson - The Three Ladies of London (published)
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- George Peele - The Battle of Alcazar (performed)
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- The Rare Triumphs of Love and Fortune - anonymous (published)
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- Christopher Marlowe - Tamburlaine (both parts published)
- George Peele - Famous Chronicle of King Edward the First
- Robert Wilson - The Three Lords and Three Ladies of London (published)
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- John Lyly - Endymion (published)
- The Troublesome Reign of King John - Anonymous (published)
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- Thomas Kyd - The Spanish Tragedy (published)
- William Shakespeare - Henry VI, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
- Arden of Faversham - anonymous (previously attributed to Shakespeare)
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- Samuel Daniel - Cleopatra
- Robert Greene
- Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (published)
- Orlando Furioso (published)
- Thomas Lodge & Robert Greene - A Looking Glass for London (published)
- Lope de Vega - El maestro de danzar - (The Dancing Master)
- George Peele - The Battle of Alcazar (published)
- William Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet
- Robert Wilson - The Cobbler's Prophecy (published)
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- Locrine - Anonymous (published)
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- The Isle of Dogs - Thomas Nashe & Ben Jonson
- Richard II - William Shakespeare (published)
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- Robert Greene - The Scottish Historie of James the Fourth (published)
- Ben Jonson - Every Man in His Humour
New poetry
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- The Aeneid -Francesco Maria Molzo's translation into Italian, in consecutive unrhymed verse (forerunner of Blank verse)
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- Sir Thomas Wyatt - Pentential Psalms
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- Barnaby Googe - Eclogues, Epitaphs, and Sonnets
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- George Turberville - Epitaphs, Epigrams, Songs and Sonnets
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- George Gascoigne - A Hundred Sundry Flowers
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- Nicholas Breton - A Small Handful of Fragrant Flowers
- George Gascoigne - The Posies
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- The Paradise of Dainty Devices, the most popular of the Elizabethan verse miscellanies
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- Nicholas Breton - The Works of a Young Wit and A Flourish upon Fancy
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- Thomas Watson - Hekatompathia or Passionate Century of Love
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- Sir Philip Sidney - Arcadia
- Edmund Spenser - The Faerie Queene, Books 1-3
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- Sir Philip Sidney - Astrophel and Stella (published posthumously)
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- Henry Constable - Diana
- Michael Drayton - The Shepherd's Garland
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- Michael Drayton - Peirs Gaveston
- Giles Fletcher, the Elder - Licia
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- Thomas Campion - *Poemata
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- Sir John Davies - Orchestra, or a Poeme of Dauncing
- Michael Drayton - The Civell Warres of Edward the Second and the Barrons
- Edmund Spenser - The Faerie Queene, Books 1-6
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- Michael Drayton - Englands Heroicall Epistles
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- La Arcadia
- La Dragontea
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- Sir John Davies
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- Hymnes of Astraea
- Nosce Teipsum
- George Peele - The Love of King David and Faire Bethsabe
Births
- 1503 - Thomas Wyatt
- 1510 - Martynas Mažvydas
- 1511 - Johannes Secundus (d. 1535)
- 1515 - Roger Ascham
- 1517 - Henry Howard
- 1524 - Luís de Camões (d. 1580)
- 1547 - Miguel de Cervantes (d. 1616)
- 1551 - William Camden
- 1554 - Philip Sidney
- 1555 - Lancelot Andrewes
- 1558 - Robert Greene
- 1558 - Thomas Kyd
- 1561 - Luís de Góngora y Argote, Spanish poet (d. 1627)
- 1562 - Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and dramatist (d. 1635)
- 1564 - Henry Chettle, English dramatist (d. 1607)
- 1564 - Christopher Marlowe, English poet and dramatist (d. 1593)
- 1564 - William Shakespeare, English poet and dramatist (d. 1616)
- 1570 - Robert Aytoun
- 1572 - Ben Jonson
- 1576 - John Marston
- 1577 - Robert Burton
- 1581 - Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft
- 1583 - Philip Massinger
- 1587 - Joost van den Vondel
- 1594 - James Howell
Deaths
- 1502 - Henry Medwall
- 1513 - Robert Fabyan
- 1535 - Johannes Secundus (b. 1511)
- 1552 - Alexander Barclay
- 1553 - Hanibal Lucić, Croatian poet and playwright (born c. 1485)
- 1553 - Francois Rabelais
- 1563 - John Bale
- 1563 - Martynas Mažvydas
- 1566 - Marco Girolamo Vida, Italian poet (b. 1485?)
- 1568 - Roger Ascham
- 1577 - George Gascoigne
- 1592 - Robert Greene
- 1593 - Christopher Marlowe
- 1594 - Thomas Kyd
- 1595 - Luis Barahona de Soto
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