CHRONOLOGY _Last Half of the Sixteenth and First Half of the Seventeenth Centuries_ ============================================================================ HISTORY | LITERATURE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 1558. Elizabeth (_d_. 1603) | 1559. John Knox in Edinburgh | 1562(?). Gammer Gurton's Needle. | Gorboduc | 1564. Birth of Shakespeare 1571. Rise of English Puritans | 1576. First Theater 1577. Drake's Voyage around the | 1579. Spenser's Shepherd's Calendar. World | Lyly's Euphues. North's Plutarch. | | 1587. Shakespeare in London. Marlowe's | Tamburlaine | 1588. Defeat of the Armada | | | 1590. Spenser's Faery Queen. Sidney's | Arcadia | | 1590-1595. Shakespeare's Early Plays | | 1597-1625. Bacon's Essays | | 1598-1614. Chapman's Homer | | 1598. Ben Jonson's Every Man in His | Humour | | 1600-1607. Shakespeare's Tragedies | 1603. James I (_d_. 1625) | | 1604. Divine Right of Kings | 1605. Bacon's Advancement of Learning proclaimed | | 1607. Settlement at Jamestown, | 1608. Birth of Milton Virginia | | | 1611. Translation (King James Version) | of Bible | | 1614. Raleigh's History | | 1616. Death of Shakespeare | 1620. Pilgrim Fathers at | 1620-1642. Shakespeare's successors. Plymouth | End of drama | | 1620. Bacon's Novum Organum | | 1622. First regular newspaper, The