DATES IN BACON'S LIFE, A Supplement To
Francis Bacon: "The Secretary of Nature"

1558:
§ Elizabeth, the 25 year old daughter of Henry the VIII ascends to the throne.

1561:
§ Born in London.

1564:
§ Galileo is Born.

1582:
§ Becomes a barrister.

1584:
§ Becomes a member of parliament.

1588:
§ Spanish Armada.
§ Robert Dudley dies.

1601:
§ Prosecutes Essex.

1603:
§ Elizabeth I dies.
§ Knighted.
§ Nov 17th, 1603: the trial of Sir Walter Raleigh, as the Attorney General Coke prosecutes.

1604:
§ Solicitor General.

1605:
§ Publishes The Advancement of Learning.

1606:
§ Coke is made Chief Justice of the Common Pleas on June 20th, 1606.

1613:
§ Attorney General.

1618:
§ Lord Chancellor.

1620:
§ Publishes Novum Organum.

1621:
§ Made a peer.
§ Accepts a litigant's bribe.

1623:
§ Publishes De Augmentis Scientarum.

1624:
§ Publishes Apothegms.

1626:
§ Dies.

1627:
§ His work Apothegms comes out posthumously.

1629:
§ His work The World comes out posthumously.

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