John Donne
1572–1631 · Person
Poet of love and death who became Dean of St Paul's — the metaphysical imagination at full stretch, from the flea to the funeral bell.
On these timelines: England, Arts and Thoughts, United Kingdom (combined), Master, People
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- Mona Lisa (1503)
- Plato's Republic written (375 BCE)
- Shakespeare's Hamlet (1601)
- Renaissance (1400)
- Scientific Revolution (1543)
- Age of Enlightenment (1685)
- Parthenon (447 BCE)
Around 1572
- William Shakespeare (1564)
- English Reformation (1533)
- Edo period (1603)
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- Mughal Empire (1526)
- Reign of Elizabeth I (1558)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543)
- Battle of Sekigahara (1600)
- Oda Nobunaga (1534)
- British East India Company chartered (1600)