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See also: 15th century in literature, other events of the 16th century, 17th century in literature, list of years in literature.
Events
The Bible is translated into English.
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
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
1590
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
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
Literature
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