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[edit] Events
- Torquato Tasso enters the service of Cardinal Luigi d'Este at Ferrara.
- Michel de Montaigne retires from public life and isolates himself in the tower of the Château de Montaigne.
- English law eliminates actors' companies lacking formal patronage, by labelling them "vagabonds".
- Sir Philip Sidney meets Penelope Devereaux, the inspiration for his Astrophel and Stella.
- James Burbage builds The Theatre, the first permanent public playhouse in London, to open the great age of Elizabethan drama.
- A troupe of boy actors, the Children of Paul's, are suppressed because of their playwright John Lyly's role in the Marprelate controversy.
- Ben Jonson is briefly jailed in Marshalsea Prison, after the suppression of his play, The Isle of Dogs.
- September 22 - Ben Jonson kills actor Gabriel Spenser in a duel; he is convicted of manslaughter and imprisoned in Newgate Prison.
[edit] New books
- The Book of Margery Kempe (posthumous)
- William Dunbar - The Thrissill and the Rois
- The Passtyme of Pleasure
- The Temple of Glass
- William Dunbar - The Goldyn Targe
- Henry Medwall - Fulgens and Lucrece
- Huldrych Zwingli - De Gestis inter Gallos et Helvetios relatio
- First translation of Virgil's Aeneid into English language (Scots dialect) by Gavin Douglas
1514-15
- Gian Giorgio Trissino - Sofonisba
- Robert Fabyan - The New Chronicles of England and France
- Francysk Skaryna's Bible translation and printing
- Teofilo Folengo's Baldo, a popular Italian work of comedy.
- Philippe de Commines - Mémoires (Part 1: Books 1-6); first publication (Paris)
- Hector Boece - Historia Scotorum
- Philippe de Commines - Mémoires (Part 2: Books 7-8); first publication
- Michael Servetus - De trinitatis erroribus ("On the Errors of the Trinity")
- Martin Luther's Bible translation
- Polydore Vergil - Historia Anglica
- Jean Calvin - Institutes of the Christian Religion (in Latin)
- Hélisenne de Crenne - Les Angoisses douloureuses qui procèdent d'amours
- Sir Thomas Elyot - The Castel of Helth
- Historia Scotorum of Hector Boece, translated into vernacular Scots by John Bellenden at the special request of James V of Scotland
- Baptistes
- Jephtha
- Paul Fagius - Liber Fidei seu Veritatis
- Edward Hall - The Union of the Two Noble and Illustrate Famelies of Lancastre & Yorke
- 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)
- Roger Ascham - Toxophilus
- Bernard Etxepare - Linguae Vasconum Primitiae
- Martynas Mažvydas - The Simple Words of Catechism (first printed book in Lithuanian language)
- Johannes Aal - Johannes der Täufer (St. John Baptist)
- Martin Bucer - De regno Christi
- 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.
- Francesco Patrizi - La Città felice ("The Happy City")
- 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
- Jacques Grévin - Jules César
- William Whittingham, Anthony Gilby, Thomas Sampson - Geneva Bible
- William Bullein - Bullein's Bulwarke of Defence againste all Sicknes, Sornes, and Woundes
- Joan Perez de Lazarraga - Silbero, Silbia, Doristeo, and Sirena (MS in Basque language)
- Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga - La Araucana, part 1
- Jean Boudin - Six livres de la République
- George Pettie - A Petite Palace of Pettie His Pleasure
- 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
- 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
- Stephen Gosson - The Schoole of Abuse
- Thomas Lodge - Honest Excuses
- George Buchanan - Rerum Scoticarum Historia
- Richard Hakluyt - Divers Voyages
- Philip Stubbes - The Anatomy of Abuses
- Reginald Scot - The Discovery of Witchcraft
- 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
- Thomas Hariot - A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia
- Thomas Nashe - The Anatomie of Absurditie
- Thomas Lodge - Rosalynde
- Thomas Nashe - An Almond for a Parrat
- Robert Greene - Greene's Groatsworth of Wit
- Gabriel Harvey - Foure Letters and certaine Sonnets
- Richard Johnson - Nine Worthies of London
- Sir John Davys - The Seamans Secrets
- Richard Hooker - Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- Sir Philip Sidney (posthumous) - Defense of Poesy, a.k.a. An Apologie for Poetrie
- Sir Walter Raleigh - The Discoverie of the Large, Rich and Beautiful Empyre of Guiana
- 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
- John Bodenham - Wits' Theater
[edit] New drama
- (about 1553) – Gammer Gurton's Needle and Ralph Roister Doister, the first comedies written in the English language
- Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville - Gorboduc
- Jack Juggler - anonymous, sometimes attributed to Nicholas Udall
- John Pickering - Horestes
- Ulpian Fulwell - Like Will to Like
- Giovanni Battista Guarini - Il pastor fido
- John Lyly
- George Peele - The Arraignment of Paris
- Robert Wilson - The Three Ladies of London (published)
- George Peele - The Battle of Alcazar (performed)
- The Rare Triumphs of Love and Fortune - anonymous (published)
- 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)
- John Lyly - Endymion (published)
- The Troublesome Reign of King John - Anonymous (published)
- Thomas Kyd - The Spanish Tragedy (published)
- William Shakespeare - Henry VI, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
- Arden of Faversham - anonymous (previously attributed to Shakespeare)
- Samuel Daniel - Cleopatra
- Robert Greene
- Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (published)
- Orlando Furioso (published)
- Thomas Lodge & Robert Greene - A Looking Glass for London (published)
- George Peele - The Battle of Alcazar (published)
- William Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet
- Robert Wilson - The Cobbler's Prophecy (published)
- Locrine - Anonymous (published)
- The Isle of Dogs - Thomas Nashe & Ben Jonson
- Richard II - William Shakespeare (published)
- Robert Greene - The Scottish Historie of James the Fourth (published)
- Ben Jonson - Every Man in His Humour
[edit] New poetry
- The Aeneid -Francesco Maria Molzo's translation into Italian, in consecutive unrhymed verse (forerunner of Blank verse)
- Ercole - Giovanni Battista Giraldi
- Sir Philip Sidney - Arcadia
- Edmund Spenser - The Faerie Queene, Books 1-3
- Sir Philip Sidney - Astrophel and Stella (published posthumously)
- Henry Constable - Diana
- Michael Drayton - The Shepherd's Garland
- Michael Drayton - Peirs Gaveston
- Thomas Campion - *Poemata
- 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
- Michael Drayton - Englands Heroicall Epistles
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- La Arcadia
- La Dragontea
- Sir John Davies
- Hymnes of Astraea
- Nosce Teipsum
- George Peele - The Love of King David and Faire Bethsabe
[edit] Births
- 1503 - Thomas Wyatt
- 1510 - Martynas Mažvydas
- 1515 - Roger Ascham
- 1517 - Henry Howard
- 1547 - Miguel de Cervantes
- 1551 - William Camden
- 1554 - Philip Sidney
- 1555 - Lancelot Andrewes
- 1558 - Robert Greene
- 1558 - Thomas Kyd
- 1561 - Luís de Góngora y Argote
- 1564 - Christopher Marlowe
- 1564 - William Shakespeare
- 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
[edit] Deaths
- 1502 - Henry Medwall
- 1513 - Robert Fabyan
- 1552 - Alexander Barclay
- 1563 - John Bale
- 1563 - Martynas Mažvydas
- 1568 - Roger Ascham
- 1577 - George Gascoigne
- 1592 - Robert Greene
- 1593 - Christopher Marlowe
- 1594 - Thomas Kyd
- 1595 - Luis Barahona de Sotobs:Književnost 16. vijeka
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