DATE                           EVENT

 

1552

• Edmund was born in East Smithfield, London England, the son of John and Elizabeth Spenser.

1553

• 6TH JULY Edward VI of England is dead

• 10TH JULY The Lady Jane  Grey is Queen of England for nine days.

• 19TH JULY Mary Tudor is now Queen and the Lady Jane  Grey is impriosned and deposed .Then  in February 1554, The Lady Jane  Grey was executed.

1558

• 17TH NOVEMBER   Queen Mary Tudor is dead and now her half sister Elizabeth is Queen od England.

1561

• It is beieved Edmund entered the Merchant Taylors' school around this time.

1569

• MAY Edmund matriculated as a sizar at Pembroke Hall (now Pembroke College), Cambridge

1570

• Edmund attended Pembroke college, Cambridge, and met his friend Gabriel Harvey

1573

• Edmund took his BA. eleventh in a list of one hundred and twenty students

1576

• Edmund left Cambridge for Kent after taking his M.A, sixty-sixth in a list of seventy

1577

• Edmund may have been employed by  Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester as early as this period.

1578

• Edmund became a secretary to John Young, Bishop of Rochester

• Edmund wrote the book Mother Hubberd's Tale

1579

• Edmund, published the Shepheardes Calender

• SPRING Edmund was accepted into the employment of the Earl of Leicester, and was living in Leicester House on the Strand . While in Robert Dudley service Edmund came into contact with Sir Philip Sidney and Sir Edward Dyer,

• 27TH OCTOBER Edmund married Machabyas Childe.

1580

• JULY: Edmund went to Ireland in service of the newly appointed lord deputy, Arthur Grey, 14th Baron Grey De Wilton

• Tears Of The Muses is composed by Edmund

• 7TH -10TH NOVEMBER: Edmund is present at the siege of Smethwick, along side Sir Walter Raleigh

• Edmund is chief secretary for Ireland till 1582

1581

• MARCH Edmund was was appointed clerk of the Chancery for Faculties in Dublin,

• Edmund, nd Lodowick Bryskett with Grey during negotiations with Turlogh Lynagh O'Neill at the Blackwater. Edmund then accompanies Grey on an expedition against Baltinglas and Feagh McHugh

1582

• Edwrad obtained a lease of Lord Baltinglas's Dublin home

• AUGUST Edmund leased New Abbey, County Kildare

1583

• MAY Edmund served as Commissioner of Musters for Kildare

1584

• Edmund served again as Commissioner of Musters for Kildare

1587

• Edmund, received estate at Kilcolman, near Doneraile in North Cork

1588

• JUNE Edmund is post of Clerk of the Council of Munster

1589

• Edmund was around this period an acquaintance of Sir Walter Ralegh

1590

• Edmund brought out his book The Faerie Queene, he travelled to London to promote and publish the book and later presented before Queen Elizabeth

• Edmund is appointed English Poet Laureate

1591

• Edmund had his poetry collection of complaints published and also returned to Ireland.

1594

• Machabyas Childe Edmund his first wife -died

• 11TH JUNE Edmund married his second wife Elizabeth Boyle.

• Pithalamion is an ode written to his bride, Elizabeth Boyle, on their wedding day

1595

• Edmund publishes Amoretti

• Edmund published Colin Clouts Come Home Againe

1596

• Edmund wrote wrote a prose pamphlet titled a view of the present state of Ireland

1598

• APRIL Edmunds's work was entered into the Stationer's Register

• SEPTEMBER Edmund was appointed appointed Sheriff for County Cork

• OCTOBER Kilcolman sacked,

• Edmund during the nine years war, was driven from his home by the native Irish forces of Aodh Ó Néill, and his castle at Kilmarnock was burned, one of his children died in the fire , Edmund travelled back to London took up residence in King's Street

1599

• 13TH JANUARY: Edmund died at the age of forty-six. Edmunds funeral expenses were paid by earl of Essex

 

Edmund Spenser was buried in Poet's corner Westminster Abbey