Year: A.D. 1604
A.D. 1330
A.D. 2013
1600
- Historical
- East India Company founded
- Literary
- Shakespeare's first tragedies performed
- Author: Marlowe, Christopher
- Translation of Lucan published
1601
- Historical
- Following an attempted uprising, Earl of Essex beheaded for treason
- Literary
- 'War of the Theatres' - Jonson, Thomas Dekker, John Marston
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Death of Shakespeare's father
- Author: Donne, John
- Donne secretly gets married to Anne More and is dismissed from Egerton's service. He becomes M.P.
1602
- Author: Webster, John
- Paid in advance for the lost play Caesar's Fall (or Two Shapes) along with Anthony Munday, Michael Drayton and Thomas Middleton
- Author: Shakespeare, William, Literary
- Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, All's Well That Ends Well
1603
- Historical
- Elizabeth dies; succeeded by James VI of Scotland, who becomes James I of England
Plague in London and theatres are closed again
- Literary
- Lord Chamberlain's Men become The King's Men, and frequently perform at court
1604
- Historical
- Hampton Court conference
- Author: Marlowe, Christopher
- Doctor Faustus (A-text) published
- Author: Webster, John
- Writes the introduction for the revival of John Marston's The Malcontent.
- Collaborates with Thomas Dekker on Westward Ho
- Author: Shakespeare, William
Shakespeare lodges with a family of French Huguenots in Silver Street
- Author: Shakespeare, William, Literary
- Shakespeare's Measure for Measure
- Performance of Shakespeare's Othello
1605
- Historical
- Gunpowder plot. Arrest and execution of Guy Fawkes
- Literary
- Cervantes' Don Quixote pt 1
Shakespeare's King Lear
- Author: Herbert, George
- Herbert goes to Westminster School
- Author: Jonson, Benjamin
- Jonson's The Masque of Blackness
- Author: Shakespeare, William, Literary
Shakespeare's King Lear
1606
- Literary
Cyril Tourneur The Revenger's Tragedy
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Shakespeare's Macbeth
- Author: Webster, John
- Marries Sara Peniall. A child, John, is born two months later
- Author: Shakespeare, William, Literary
- Shakespeare's Anthony and Cleopatra
- Author: Jonson, Benjamin, Literary
- Ben Jonson's Volpone
1607
- Historical
- Appearance of Halley's comet
- Founding of Jamestown, Virginia
- Literary
- Tourneur's The Revenger's Tragedy published
- Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher's The Knight of the Burning Pestle
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Susanna Shakespeare marries Dr John Hall. Timon of Athens written
- Author: Donne, John
- Donne's Divine Poems
1608
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Shakespeare's Coriolanus, Pericles. Death of Shakespeare's mother
- Author: Herbert, George
- Herbert's mother marries Sir John Danvers
- Author: Milton, John
- John Milton born
- Author: Webster, John
- Writes an historical play, Appius and Virginia, probably in collaboration with Thomas Heywood