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Chronology of Important Dates
1572 Born in London
1576 John Donne (father) died
1584, 23 October Matriculated Hart Hall, Oxford
1587-1591 At Cambridge (?) or abroad (?)
1591, by May Law Student at Thavies' Inn
1592, 6 May Admitted to Lincoln's Inn
1593 Henry Donne (only brother) died in prison, having been
committed for sheltering a priest
1596, June Sailed with Essex on the Cadiz Expedition
1597, August Sailed on Azores Expedition (The Islands' Voyage)
1598 Secretary to Sir Thomas Egerton, the Lord Keeper
1601, December Secretly married Anne More, niece of Egerton's wife
1602, February Imprisoned, and dismissed from Egerton's service
1602, April Released and marriage ratified
1602-06 Lived with Sir Francis Wooley, his wife's cousin, at
Pyrford, Surrey
1606-11 Lived at Mitcham, with (later) a room in the Strand
1605-07 Assisted Thomas Morton in controversy with Catholics
1610 Pseudo-Martyr
1610, 17 April Hon. M. A., Oxford
1611 Conclave Ignati and Ignatius His Conclave
1611 An Anatomy of the World (The First Anniversary)
1611, November-December 1612
Abroad with Sir Robert and Lady Drury
1612 The Second Anniversary, with reprint of The First . . .
1612-1621 Lived in house in Drury Lane
1615, 23 January Ordained priest
1615, April Doctor of Divinity, Cambridge
1616, October-February 1622
Reader in Divinity at Lincoln's Inn
1617, 15 August Anne Donne (wife) died
1619, May-December 1620
Abroad with Doncaster on Embassy to Germany
1621, 19 November Dean of St. Paul's: moved to Deanery
1623, Winter Seriously ill: composed Devotions (published 1624)
1624, March Appointed Vicar of St. Dunstan's in the West
1631, 31 March Died at Deanery
1633 Poems
1640 LXXX Sermons, with first version of Walton Life of
Donne prefixed
[ 1646] Biathanatos
1649 Fifty Sermons

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Publication Information: Book Title: John Donne: A Collection of Critical Essays. Contributors: Helen Gardner - editor. Publisher: Prentice-Hall. Place of Publication: Englewood Cliffs, NJ. Publication Year: 1961. Page Number: 180.
    
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