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1508
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- April 4 - John Lydgate's The Complaint of the Black Knight becomes the first book printed in Scotland.
- The earliest known printed edition of the chivalric romance Amadis de Gaula, as edited and expanded by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, is published in Castilian at Zaragoza.
- Elia Levita completes writing the Bovo-Bukh.
1510
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- April 10 - Henry Cornelius Agrippa pens the dedication of De occulta philosophia libri tres to Johannes Trithemius.
1513
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- Johannes Potken publishes the first Ge'ez text, Psalterium David et Cantica aliqua, at Rome.
1515
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- Paolo Ricci translates Sha'are Orah by Joseph Gikatilla as Portae lucis.
1519
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- Apokopos by Bergadis, the first book in Modern Greek is printed in Venice.
1530
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- Paracelsus finishes writing Paragranum.
1537
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- Paracelsus starts to write Astronomia Magna or the whole Philosophia Sagax of the Great and Little World".
1538
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- Paracelsus finishes writing Astronomia Magna or the whole Philosophia Sagax of the Great and Little World".
1539
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- Marie Dentière writes an open letter to Marguerite of Navarre, sister of the King of France; the Epistre tres utile, or "very useful letter", calls for an expulsion of Catholic clergy from France.
1541
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- Elia Levita's chivalric romance, the Bovo-Bukh, is first printed, the earliest published secular work in Yiddish.
1551
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- An edition of the Book of Common Prayer becomes the first book printed in Ireland.
1565
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- Torquato Tasso enters the service of Cardinal Luigi d'Este at Ferrara.
1567
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- October 14 - António Ferreira becomes Desembargador da Casa do Civel and leaves Coimbra for Lisbon.
1571
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- Michel de Montaigne retires from public life and isolates himself in the tower of the Château de Montaigne.
1572
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- English law eliminates actors' companies lacking formal patronage, by labelling them "vagabonds".
1575
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- Sir Philip Sidney meets Penelope Devereaux, the inspiration for his Astrophel and Stella.
1576
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- December - James Burbage builds The Theatre, the first permanent public playhouse in London, opening the great age of Elizabethan drama.
1590
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- A troupe of boy actors, the Children of Paul's, are suppressed because of their playwright John Lyly's role in the Marprelate controversy.
1596
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- Blackfriars Theatre opens in London.
1597
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- Ben Jonson is briefly jailed in Marshalsea Prison, after the suppression of his play, The Isle of Dogs.
1598
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- September 22 - Ben Jonson kills actor Gabriel Spenser in a duel and is briefly held in Newgate Prison.
- December 28 - The Theatre is dismantled in London.
- Thomas Bodley refounds the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford.
1599
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- Spring/Summer - Globe Theatre built in Southwark, London, utilising material from The Theatre.
- June 4 - Bishops' Ban of 1599: Thomas Middleton's Microcynicon: Six Snarling Satires and John Marston's Scourge of Villainy are publicly burned as the English ecclesiastical authorities clamp down on published satire.
- Late - War of the Theatres, a satirical controversy, breaks out on the London stage.
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