A CHRONOLOGY OF BACON S 

 LIFE AND WRITINGS 



Born at York House .... January 22, 1560-1 

 Entered at Trinity College, Cambridge . . April, 1573 

 Admitted de societate magistrorum at Gray s 



Inn June 27, 1575 



Accompanies Sir Amias Paulet to Paris September 25, 1576 

 Returns to England .... March 20, 1578-9 

 Admitted Utter Barrister of Gray s Inn June 27, 1582 



First Essay on the Instauration of Philosophy, which 



he called Temporis Partus Maximus, composed 



about 1583 



Begins public life. Takes his seat as Member for 



Melcombe in Dorsetshire . . November 23, 1584 

 Becomes a Bencher of Gray s Inn .... 1586 

 Acquaintance with Essex begins about . . . 1591 

 Edition of the Essays in their earliest shape . . 1597 

 Arraignment of Essex . . . February, 1600-1 

 Declaration of the Practices and Treasons attempted and 



committed by Robert late Earl of Essex . . . 1601 



Death of Elizabeth and Accession of James 



March 24, 1602-3 



Publication of the Advancement of Learning October, 1605 

 Gunpowder Plot .... November 5, 1605 

 Marriage to Alice Barnham . . . May 10, 1606 

 Appointed Solicitor General . . . June 25, 1607 

 Composition of the Cogitata et Visa Summer of 1607 



Composition of the Novum Organum probably begun 1G08 

 An instalment of the Instauratio Magna (probably the 

 Redargutio Philosophiarum) sent to Tobv 

 Matthew ..... October 10, 1609 



