16th century in literature
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Events
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 – 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
- 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
- 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
- The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Irelande – Raphael Holinshed
- The History of Travayle in the West and East Indies – Richard Eden
- 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
- Honest Excuses – Thomas Lodge
- The Schoole of Abuse – Stephen Gosson
- Divers Voyages – Richard Hakluyt
- Rerum Scoticarum Historia – George Buchanan
- The Anatomy of Abuses – Philip Stubbe
- The Araygnement of Paris – George Peele
- 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
- Arcadia – Sir Philip Sidney (posthumous)
- Rosalynde – Thomas Lodge
- Astrophel and Stella – Sir Philip Sidney (posthumous)
- 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
- Peirs Gaveston – Michael Drayton
- 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
- Colin Clouts Come Home Againe – Edmund Spenser
- Poemata – Thomas Campion
- An Apologie for Poetrie – Sir Philip Sidney (posthumous)
- 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
- Englands Heroicall Epistles – Michael Drayton
- 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
- 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
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