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Approx 1552 Born in or near 1552 to a family of modest means Approx 1561 As a boy he entered the Merchant Taylors` school, probably at its opening in 1561 under the celebrated humanist and pedagogical writer Richard Mulcaster 1569 Jan van der Noot`s A theatre for Worldlings, including poems translated from Spenser from French sources, published in London by Henry Bynneman 1569 Spenser left school and matriculated as a sizar at Pembroke Hall (now Pembroke College), Cambridge 1573 Spenser graduates B.A. from Pembroke, eleventh in a list of one hundred and twenty students 1576 received his M.A. from Cambridge 1578 Spenser serving as secretary to John Young, Bishop of Rochester, in Kent 1579 Spenser was accepted into the employment of the Earl of Leicester, and was living in Leicester House on the Strand. 1579 Spenser back in London, in the employment of the Earl of Leicester 1579 The Shepheardes Calender entered into the Stationers` Register 1580 Spenser-Harvey correspondence entered into the Stationers` Register, June 1580 Spenser was appointed secretary to Arthur, fourteenth Lord Grey de Wilton, then leaving England to take up office as Lord Deputy of Ireland 1580 Spenser accompanies Grey on a military expedition to encounter Papal forces at Smerwick 11/09/1580 Fort surrenders and 600 captives executed. Spenser returns thereafter with Grey to Dublin, arriving by the end of the year 1581 Spenser and Lodowick Bryskett with Grey during negotiations with Turlogh Lynagh O`Neill at the Blackwater. Spenser subsequently accompanies Grey on an expedition against Baltinglas and Feagh McHugh 1581 Spenser was appointed clerk of the Chancery for Faculties in Dublin 1582 Spenser leases New Abbey, County Kildare, August 1582 Grey recalled, Spenser discharged from secretaryship 1583 Spenser serves as deputy to Bryskett who receives patent for the Clerkship of Munster. 1583 Earl of Desmond killed near Tralee 1586 Spenser was allotted 3,028 acres near Doneraile, including the old castle at Kilcolman, of what was once the Earl of Desmond`s land 1588 appointed the post of Clerk of the Council of Munster 1588 Spenser occupies Kilcolman, although the royal grant is yet to be official 1589 Official confirmation of Spenser`s right to Kilcolman and its 3,028 acres 1590 Spenser writes his Letter of the Authors, to Sir Walter Ralegh, January 1590 The Faerie Queene, Books I-III, published in London 1591 Spenser granted a life pension of £50 per annnum by Elizabeth 1591 Spenser completes Colin clouts come home againe while at Kilcolman 1592 Publication of Daphnaïda in London 1592 Cuthbert Burbie publishes the pseudo-Platonic dialogue Axiochus, the translation of which is attributed to `Edw: Spenser` 1594 Spenser serving as Queen`s Justice for County Cork 06/11/1594 Spenser marries Elizabeth Boyle 1595 Publication of Amoretti and Epithalamion, Colin clouts come home againe, and Astrophel 1596 Publication of the first six books of The Faerie Queene, Fowre Hymnes, Prothalamion 1597 Spenser acquires Renny in south Cork, on behalf of his son Peregrine 1598 Spenser designated Sheriff of Cork 1598 Kilcolman sacked. Spenser and his family flee to the city of Cork 1598 Spenser leaves Cork for London, carrying messages from Sir THomas Norris to the Privy Council 01/13/1599 Spenser dies at Westminster |
