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: 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 '' - Erasmus
: 1512 - '' Fulgens And Lucrece '' - Henry Medwall
: 1513 - First translation of the Aeneid into English Language (Scots dialect) by Gavin Douglas
: 1515 - '' The New Chronicles of England and France'' by Robert Fabyan
: about 1516 - '' Utopia '' by Thomas More
: 1526 - William Tyndale 's Bible Translation
: 1527 - ''Historia Scotorum'' - Hector Boece
: 1532 - '' The Prince '' by Niccolò Machiavelli
: 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 - '' 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

: 1588

''The Anatomie of Absurditie'' - Thomas Nashe

: 1590

''An Almond for a Parrat'' - Thomas Nashe

'' 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

'' The Isle Of Dogs '' (play) - Thomas Nashe & Ben Jonson

: 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

BIRTHS

1515 - Roger Ascham

1547 - Miguel De Cervantes

1551 - William Camden

1555 - Lancelot Andrewes

1558 - Robert Greene

1558 - Thomas Kyd

1561 - Luís De Góngora Y Argote

1564 - Christopher Marlowe

1564 - William Shakespeare

1570 - Robert Aytoun

1572 - Ben Jonson

1576 - John Marston

1577 - Robert Burton

1581 - Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft

1583 - Philip Massinger

1587 - Joost Van Den Vondel

DEATHS

1502 - Henry Medwall

1513 - Robert Fabyan

1552 - Alexander Barclay

1563 - John Bale

1568 - Roger Ascham

1577 - George Gascoigne

1592 - Robert Greene

1593 - Christopher Marlowe

1594 - Thomas Kyd

1595 - Luis Barahona De Soto