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Period: Jan 21, 1572 to
John Donne
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Jan 26, 1576
Father dies suddenly
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Donne's brother Henry dies of a fever in prison
After that Donne begins to question his faith -
Joins the naval expedition that Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, led against Cádiz, Spain
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Giordano Bruno is burned
Giordano Bruno is burned at the stake for heresy in Rome. -
Elizabethan Poor Law passed
The Elizabethan Poor Law is passed. People are made to pay a rate to support the poor. -
Secretly marries Anne More
Seventeen-year-old Anne More was Lady Egerton's niece. Her father, Sir George More has Donne thrown to Fleet Prison for some weeks. -
Death of Queen Elizabeth I
At the age of 69, Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland, uniting the crowns of Scotland and England. -
Translation of the Bible starts
James dislikes England's Puritans but he agrees to their request for an official translation of the Bible -- to be known as the Authorized King James Bible -- in place of three other versions: the Geneva Bible, the Great Bible (an English language translation authorized by Henry VIII) and the (Anglican) Bishop's Bible. -
Failure of the Gunpowder Plot
The Gunpowder plot, a failed assassination attempt against King James I of England and VI of Scotland by a group of provincial English Catholics led by Robert Catesby. -
Jamestown, Virginia is settled
Jamestown, Virginia, is settled as what would become the first permanent English colony in North America. -
Flight of the Earls
Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland. About ninety followers left Ireland for mainland Europe. It followed their defeat by England in the Nine Years' War and marked the end of the Gaelic political order. -
Quebec City founded
Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain in New France (present-day Canada). -
Twelve Years' Truce
The Netherlands and Spain agree to a Twelve Years' Truce in the Eighty Years' War. -
The King James Bible is published
The Authorized King James Version is an English translation by the Church of England of the Christian Bible begun in 1604 and completed in 1611. -
First barrels of cured tobacco reach England
The first barrels of cured tobacco reach England from the colony of Virginia. By 1617 ships will be carrying 50,000 pounds of cured tobacco annually from Virginia to England. Smoking will become a fad in England, with King James describing it as "loathsome," harmful to the brain and dangerous to the lungs. -
Death of William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare dies. -
Anne Donne dies 15 August
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Donne appointed Dean of Saint Paul's
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Jamestown massacre
Jamestown massacre: Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown, Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement. -
Appointed vicar of St Dunstan's-in-the-West
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Dies in London
