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| Year | Historical | Literary | Donne, John |
| 1572 | St Bartholomew's Day massacre of Huguenots in France | Birth of John Donne | |
| 1576 | The Theatre - first purpose-built playhouse in London | James Burbage builds first permanent English playhouse, The Theatre in London. | |
| 1577 | Sir Francis Drake sails around the world. | Holinshed publishes his Chronicles, the main source of Shakespeare's historical material. | |
| 1579 | Spenser's The Shepherd's Calendar North's translation of Plutarch's Lives | ||
| 1584 | First English colony in America established by Sir Walter Raleigh at Roanoke Island, Virginia | Donne goes to Oxford University | |
| 1586 | (Catholic) Mary Queen of Scots tried for treason against (Protestant) Queen Elizabeth of England. | Sir Philip Sidney dies | |
| 1587 | Mary Queen of Scots executed in England. Pope proclaims crusade against England | Performances of Kyd's The Spanish Tradgedy | |
| 1588 | Spanish Armada sent in retaliation of Mary Queen of Scots, defeated in battle. | Lyly's Endymion | Donne possibly at Cambridge University |
| 1590 | Sidney's Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia Spenser's Faerie Queene (I-III) published | ||
| 1591 | Increasing persecution of Catholics | Kyd writes The Spanish Tragedy, thought to have a strong influence on Shakespeare's Hamlet. Sidney's Astrophil and Stella | Donne goes to Thavies Inn as law student |
| 1592 | Donne goes to Lincoln's Inn to study law | ||
| 1593 | Theatres closed because of plague | ||
| 1594 | Hooker's Of the Laws of the Ecclesiastical Polity I-IV Sir Philip Sidney's Apology for Poetry published Acting group The Lord Chamberlain's Men re-established. Nashe's The Unfortunate Traveller | ||
| 1595 | Spenser's Amoretti Sidney's An Apology for Poetry (or The Defence of Poesy) | ||
| 1596 | Essex attacks Cadiz | Second Blackfriars Theatre opened by Burbage Spenser's Faerie Queene (IV-VI) published | Donne on Cadiz expedition |
| 1597 | New Poor Law | Bacon's Essays published | |
| 1598 | Death of Philip II | Donne appointed Secretary to Egerton | |
| 1599 | Earl of Essex, former favourite of Queen Elizabeth, arrested for failure to carry out her policies in Ireland Oliver Cromwell born | Edmund Spenser dies The Globe Theatre built on south bank of the Thames | |
| 1600 | East India Company founded | Shakespeare's first tragedies performed | |
| 1601 | Following an attempted uprising, Earl of Essex beheaded for treason | 'War of the Theatres' - Jonson, Thomas Dekker, John Marston | Donne secretly gets married to Anne More and is dismissed from Egerton's service. He becomes M.P. |
| 1603 | Plague in London Elizabeth dies; succeeded by James VI of Scotland, who becomes James I of England | Lord Chamberlain's Men become The King's Men, and frequently perform at court | |
| 1604 | Hampton Court conference | ||
| 1605 | Gunpowder plot. Arrest and execution of Guy Fawkes | Cervantes' Don Quixote pt 1 | |
| 1606 | Shakespearce's King Lear, Cyril Tourneur The Revenger's Tragedy | ||
| 1607 | Appearance of Halley's comet Founding of Jamestown, Virginia | Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher's The Knight of the Burning Pestle Tourneur's The Revenger's Tragedy published | Donne's Divine Poems |
| 1610 | Galileo The Starry Messenger Galileo reports on his findings with the telescope | Beaumont's and Fletcher's The Maid's Tragedy | |
| 1611 | Chapman, translation of Homer's lliad Authorised (or King James') Version of the Bible | Donne's First Anniversarie printed | |
| 1612 | Death of Henry, Prince of Wales. Prince Charles becomes heir to the throne | Donne's Of the Progress of the Soul | |
| 1613 | Globe theatre fire | ||
| 1614 | Globe theatre rebuilt after fire in previous year | Chapman, translation of Homer's Odyssey (-1615) | Donne elected M. P. for Taunton |
| 1615 | Cervantes's Don Quixote pt 2 | Donne becomes Church of England priest. Receives D.D. from Cambridge University | |
| 1616 | Lectures on the circulation of the blood by William Harvey in London | Death of Cervantes Jonson's Works | |
| 1617 | Anne Donne dies | ||
| 1618 | Sir Walter Raleigh executed Beginning of the Thirty Years' War (to 1648) | ||
| 1620 | Pilgrim Fathers to Massachussetts in the Mayflower | ||
| 1621 | Bacon dismissed from office Thomas Middleton's Women Beware Women Performances of Philip Massinger's A New Way to Pay Old Debts | Donne Dean of St.Paul's Cathedral, London | |
| 1622 | Performance of Middleton's The Changeling | ||
| 1624 | Donne's Devotions upon Emergent Occasions | ||
| 1625 | James I dies. Charles I becomes king. Charles marries Henrietta Maria of France | ||
| 1626 | War with France | Bacon dies | |
| 1628 | John Bunyan born Buckingham assassinated Laud appointed Bishop of London | ||
| 1629 | Charles I suspends Parliament and has Sir John Eliot among other leaders imprisoned | ||
| 1630 | Future Charles II is born | ||
| 1631 | Bishop Laud enforces uniformity to the Church of England | John Dryden born | March 31: Donne dies |
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