EVENTS IN SPENSER'S LIFE A.D. CONTEMPORARY EVENTS
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irth of Edmund Spenser (about) 1552 Birth of Sir Walter Raleigh1553 Death of Edward VI; Mary crowned.1554 Mary marries Philip of Spain.1558 Death of Mary; Elizabeth crowned.1560 Charles IX, king of France.1568 Council of Trent._Visions of Bellay_, published, 1569_Sonnets of Petrarch_, published, 1569Enters Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, 15691572 Gregory XIII, Pope of Rome.1572 Massacre of St. Batholomew.1574 Henry III, king of France.Received M.A., leaves Cambridge, 1576 Rudolph II, emperor.Leaves Lancashire, 1578 Elizabeth aids the Netherlands.Visits Lord Leicester, 1579_The Shepheards Calender_, 1579Goes to Ireland, 1580 Massacre of Smerwick.1581 Tasso's _Jersalem Delivered_.Lord Grey's return to England, 15821584 Assassination of William theSilent.1585 Sixtus V, Pope. Drake's voyage.1585 Leicester goes to the Netherlands.1586 Death of Sir Philip Sidney.First marriage (before) 1587 Execution of Mary Queen of Scots.Clerk to the Council ofMunster, 1588 Defeat of Spanish Armada.Death of Leicester.Visits England with Raleigh, 1589 Assassination of Henry III;Henry IV crowned._The Faerie Queene_, Books I, 1590 Shakespeare's _Love'sII, III, Labour's Lost_._Mother Hubberds Tale, Tears of 1591 Shakespeare's _Comedy of Errors,the Muses, Ruines of Time, Henry VI_.Daphnaida, The Visions_ 1591 Ariosto's _Orlando Furioso_, trans.1593 Shakespeare's _MidsummerNight's Dream_.1593 _Richard III._Second marriage, 1594 Shakespeare's _Richard II_._Colin Clout's Come Home Again_, 1595 Shakespeare's _King John_._Amoretti, Epithalamion, Hymns_ 1595 Johnston's _Seven Championsof Christendom.__Astrophel, Prothalamion,_ 1596 Shakespeare's _Merchant of Venice_._The Faerie Queene_, Books I-VI 1596 Ben Jonson's _Every Man in hisHumour.__Vision of the Present State of 1598 Edict of Nantes,Ireland_ Philip III crowned.Death of Spenser, 1599 Revolt of Irish. Expeditionof Essex to Ireland. * * * * *
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