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General Events				Events in Bacon's Life
Birth of Mary, daughter of Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII	18 February	1516
Birth of Elizabeth, daughter of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII	7 September	1533
Sir Thomas More is executed.	6 June	1535
Death of Erasmus in Freiburg William Tyndale condemned for heresy and executed near Brussels Dissolution of the monasteries		1536
Birth of Edward, son of Jane Seymour and Henry VIII	12 October	1537
Birth of Mary, Queen of Scots	8 December	1542
Deaths of Copernicus, Hans Holbein	24 May	1543
Henry VIII's flagship The Mary Rose sinks off the coast at Portsmouth. Birth of Sir Thomas Bodley.		1545
Death of Martin Luther at Eisleben, aged 63		1546
Death of Henry VIII, Edward VI ascends the throne. Ivan IV becomes first Tsar of Russia. Birth of Miguel de Cervantes	28 January	1547
Thomas Seymour proposes marriage to Elizabeth and is refused	26 February
Birth of Miguel de Cervantes	9 October
Death of Edward VI	6 July	1553
Lady Jane Grey proclaimed Queen	10 July
Mary Tudor proclaimed Queen	20 July
Mary crowned	30 October
Birth of Philip Sidney Thomas Wyatt's rebellion Elizabeth sent to the tower for her supposed complicity Mary married Philip II of Spain		1554
Bishops Nicholas Ridley and Hugh Latimer burned at the stake in Oxford		1555
Archbishop Thomas Cranmer burned at the stake		1556
Mary I dies, Elizabeth succeeds to the throne	17 November	1558
Elizabeth I crowned Queen; makes peace with France.	15 January	1559
Mary, Queen of Scots lands in Scotland O'Neill's rebellion in Ireland	19 August	1561	22 January	Birth of Francis Bacon at York House, Strand, London, the youngest son of Sir Nicholas (Lord Keeper of the Seal) and Lady Anne.
Births of Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare Plague in Stratford Robert Dudley becomes Earl of Leicester Deaths of Michaelangelo, John Calvin, and Galileo Maximilian II becomes Holy Roman Emperor, King of Austria, Bohemia and Hungary on the death of Ferdinand I		1564
Births of James VI of Scotland and Robert Devereaux, future Earl of Essex		1566
The first Eisteddfod of Welsh music and literature is held at Caerwys		1568
		1573		Enters Trinity College, Cambridge at the age of 13.
Birth of Ben Jonson	January 31	1574
		1576		Bacon and his brother Anthony were entered at Gray's Inn. Later that year they both went abroad with Sir Amias Paulet, then Ambassador to France.
John Lyly, Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit. Birth of William Harvey.		1578
		1579		Death of Sir Nicholas Bacon.
William of Orange assassinated Sir Walter Raleigh sails to Virginia. The Spanish Ambassador, Mendoza, is expelled from England.	10 July	1584		Bacon took his seat in Parliament for Melcombe in Dorset (and subsequently for Taunton).
		1585		Writes Advice to Queen Elizabeth and The Greatest Birth of Time
Mary Queen of Scots executed. Birth of Virginia Dare at Roanoke Island, North Carolina.		1587
Defeat of the Spanish Armada. Death of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester.		1588
Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen Death of Sir Francis Walsingham.		1590
Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella		1591
Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus and Hero and Leander Thomas Nashe, Pierce Penniless, His Supplication to the Devil Theatre owner Philip Henslowe listed Henry VI as having been performed by Strange's Men at the Rose theatre on 3 March		1592		Writes four speeches for an entertainment, A Conference of Pleasure, celebrating Elizabeth's accession.
Registration of Venus and Adonis, published by Richard Field Death of Christopher Marlowe in a tavern in Deptford. Richard Hooker, On the Laws of Ecclesiatical Polity		1593		Displeases the Queen by speaking in Parliament against the government.
First Quarto edition of Titus Andronicus, Henry VI part I. Registration of The Rape of Lucrece		1594		Writes six speeches for the Gray's Inn Christmas Masque Gesta Grayorum.
		1595		The Earl of Essex gives Bacon an estate at Twickenham. Bacon writes part of a performance given by Essex to celebrate the accession of Queen Elizabeth, entitled Of Love and Self-Love
Death of Sir Francis Drake.	28 January	1596		Became Queen's Counsel
First Quarto editions of Richard III, Richard II, and Romeo and Juliet		1597		Publishes the Essays, with Colours of Good and Evil, and Meditationes Sacrae. Writes Maxims of the Law.
First Quarto editions of Love's Labour's Lost and Henry IV part I		1598		Arrested for debt. Writes a pamphlet about a Jesuit conspiracy against Queen Elizabeth
Building of the Globe Theatre Birth of Oliver Cromwell		1599
First Quarto edition of Henry IV part II and part III, Henry V, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing The English East India Company is founded		1600	June	Takes part in proceedings against the Earl of Essex
Essex executed for rebellion Thomas Campion My Sweetest Lesbia, Rose-Cheeked Laura, Fain Would I Wed		1601	February	Bacon assists the prosecution in the trial of Essex and publishes a Declaration of his supposed crimes Death of his brother Anthony in May
First Quarto edition of The Merry Wives of Windsor		1602
Death of Elizabeth I, James VI of Scotland becomes James I of England First Quarto edition of Hamlet published		1603		Writes Valerius Terminus of the Interpretation of Nature, Temporis Partus Masculus and De Interpretatione Naturae Proaemium Starts writing about the union of England and Scotland
		1604		Publishes Apology in certain imputations concerning the late Earl of Essex
The Gunpowder Plot		1605		Publishes The Advancement of Learning
Ben Jonson's Volpone published		1606		Marries Alice Barnham, daugher of a wealthy London Alderman
		1607		Appointed Solicitor-General, writes Cogita et Visa
First Quarto edition of King Lear		1608		Writes Redargutio Philosophiarum and short historical pieces
First Quarto edition of Pericles, and Troilus and Cressida		1609		De Sapientia Veterum
		1610		Death of his mother, Lady Anne
King James Bible published		1611
		1612		Publishes second (revised) edition of the Essays, writes Descriptio Globi Intellectualis and Thema Coeli
		1613		Appointed Attorney-General
John Donne becomes Anglican priest		1615
Death of William Shakespeare		1616		Helps to prosecute Somerset for the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury Becomes a Privy Councillor
		1617		Appointed Lord Keeper
		1618	January	Appointed Lord Chancellor and in July, Baron Verulam
		1620		Publishes Novum Organum as the first part of the Instauratio Magna
		1621	January	Created Viscount St. Alban
			May	Dismissed from the office of Chancellor for taking bribes. Fined and imprisoned for a brief period. Eventually receives a limited pardon, and retains his title. Retires to his family home in Gorhambury.
First Quarto edition of Othello		1622		Publishes History of Henry VII, and an Advertisement touching an Holy War
Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories & Tragedies edited by John Hemminge and Henry Condell is published and registered. It contains 36 plays attributed to William Shakespeare; 500 copies of the "First Folio" were printed at One Pound per copy.		1623		Publishes De Augmentis Scientiarum, a much englarged Latin version of The Advancement of Learning
		1624		Writes New Atlantis, publishes Apophthegms and a translation of some of the Psalms
		1625		Publishes the third (enlarged and revised) edition of the Essays
		1626	9 April	Dies (childless) at Highgate, London, heavily in debt
First Quarto edition of The Taming of the Shrew		1631
First Quarto edition of The Two Noble Kinsmen		1634

Timeline of events between the years 1516 and 1634 A.D.