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1 Events

• The Bible is translated into English.

2 New Books

1501 - The Book of Margery Kempe (posthumous)

1503 - The Thrissill and the Rois - William Dunbar

1505 - The Passtyme of Pleasure and The Temple of Glass - Stephen Hawes

1508 - The Goldyn Targe - William Dunbar

1509 - In Praise of Folly - ErasmusThis article deals with the Erasmus, the theologian. For other meanings, see Erasmus (disambiguation). Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (also Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam ( October 27, probably 1466 July 12, 1536) was a Dutch humanist and theologian.

1512Events April 11 Battle of Ravenna. French forces under Gaston de Foix, Duc de Nemours defeat the Spanish under Raymond of Cardona, but Gaston is killed in the pursuit. November 1 The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to - Fulgens and Lucrece - Henry Medwall

1513Events January 20 Christian II becomes King of Denmark and Norway. March 11 Leo X elected pope. March 27 Explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sights North America (specifically Florida) for the first time mistaking it for another island. Later, on April 2, he land - First translation of the AeneidThe Aeneid is a Latin epic written by Virgil in the 1st century BC that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy where he became the ancestor of the Romans. Form and Tradition The Aeneid is an epic poem of twelve books, in consc into English language (Scots dialect) by Gavin DouglasGavin Douglas (c. 1474 September, 1522), Scottish poet and bishop, third son of Archibald, 5th Earl of Angus (called the "great Earl of Angus" and "Bell-the-Cat"), was born c. 1474, probably at one of his father's seats. He was a student at St Andrews, 14

1515Events June Invasion of Persia by Sultan Selim I of the Ottoman Empire. August 23 Battle of Chaldiran. Selim I crushes the Persian army of Shah Ismail I. September 5 Selim captures the Persian capital of Tabriz without encountering any resistance, but is - The New Chronicles of England and France by Robert Fabyan

about 1516Events March With the death of Ferdinand II of Aragon, his grandson Charles of Ghent becomes King of Spain as Carlos I. July Selim I of the Ottoman Empire declares war on the Mameluks and invades Syria. August 13 Treaty of Noyon Peace between France and S - Utopia by Thomas More

1527 - Historia Scotorum - Hector Boece

1535 - Huon of Bordeaux - John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners

1539 - The Castel of Helth - Sir Thomas Elyot

1540 - Historia Scotorum of Hector Boece, translated into vernacular Scots by John Bellenden at the special request of James V of Scotland

1541 - Baptistes and Jephtha - George Buchanan

1542 - The Union of the Two Noble and Illustrate Famelies of Lancastre & Yorke - Edward Hall

1545 - Toxophilus - Roger Ascham

about 1553 - Gammer Gurton's Needle and Ralph Roister Doister, the first comedies written in the English language

1559 - The Elizabethan version of the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England, which remained in use until the mid-17th century and was the first English Prayer Book in America.

1560 - The Geneva Bible - William Whittingham, Anthony Gilby , Thomas Sampson

1562

• Bullein's Bulwarke of Defence againste all Sicknes, Sornes, and Woundes - William Bullein
• Gorboduc (play) - Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville
• Jack Juggler (play) - anonymous, sometimes attributed to Nicholas Udall

1563

• Foxe's Book of Martyrs - John Foxe

1577

• The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Irelande - Raphael Holinshed
• The History of Travayle in the West and East Indies - Richard Eden

1578

• A True Discourse of the Late Voyages of Discoverie…under the Conduct of Martin Frobisher - George Best
• Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit - John Lyly
• First Fruits - John Florio

1579

• Honest Excuses - Thomas Lodge
• The Schoole of Abuse - Stephen Gosson

1582

• Divers Voyages - Richard Hakluyt
• Rerum Scoticarum Historia - George Buchanan

1583

• The Anatomy of Abuses - Philip Stubbe

1584

• The Araygnement of Paris - George Peele

1585

• La Galatea - Miguel de Cervantes

1586

• A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia - Thomas Hariot
• Historie of the Reformatioun of Religioun within the Realms of Scotland - John Knox
• The Raigne of Edward III - anonymous, attributed by some to William Shakespeare
• The Arte of English Poesie - attributed to George Puttenham
• Primera parte de la Angélica - Luis Barahona de Soto
• Pappe with an hatchet, alias a figge for my Godsonne - John Lyly

1590

• Arcadia - Sir Philip Sidney (posthumous)
• Rosalynde - Thomas Lodge

1591

• Astrophel and Stella - Sir Philip Sidney (posthumous)

1592

• Diana - Henry Constable
• The Spanish Tragedy (play) - Thomas Kyd
• The Tragedy of Mr Arden of Feversham (play) - anonymous (previously attributed to William Shakespeare)
• Groatsworth of Wit - Robert Greene
• Foure Letters and certaine Sonnets - Gabriel Harvey
• The Shepherd's Garland - Michael Drayton

1593

• Peirs Gaveston - Michael Drayton

1594

• The Battle of Alcazar (play) - George Peele
• Cleopatra (play) - Samuel Daniel
• Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie - Richard Hooker
• The Seamans Secrets - Sir John Davys

1595

• Colin Clouts Come Home Againe - Edmund Spenser
• Poemata - Thomas Campion
• An Apologie for Poetrie - Sir Philip Sidney (posthumous)

1596

• Orchestra, or a Poeme of Dauncing - Sir John Davies
• The Civell Warres of Edward the Second and the Barrons - Michael Drayton
• The Faerie Queene - Edmund Spenser
• The Discoverie of the Large, Rich and Beautiful Empyre of Guiana by Sir Walter Raleigh

1597

• Englands Heroicall Epistles - Michael Drayton

1598

• Every Man in his Humour (play) - Ben Jonson
• The Scottish Historie of James the Fourth (play) - Robert Greene
• Palladis Tamia, Wits Treasury - Francis Meres
• Politeuphuia (Wits' Commonwealth) - John Bodenham
• Survey of London - John Stow

1599

• Every Man out of his Humour (play) - Ben Jonson
• Hymnes of Astraea (poetry) - Sir John Davies
• Nosce Teipsum (poetry) - Sir John Davies
• The Love of King David and Faire Bethsabe (poetry) - George Peele
• Wits' Theater - John Bodenham