Note: The following, chronological table of events in Dee's years, uses year-numbers that begin with the date January 1st., but
English writings from that period, linked-to from this table, may use year-numbers that begin with the March 25th. following. |
Year Month day Events
1558 to 1559 |
John Dee helps Elizabeth Tudor, Queen-to-be, plan her coronation, after the death of her sister Queen Mary. |
1562 January 18 |
Pope Pius IV reconvenes the Council of Trent (after a ten year hiatus due largely to the extremism of Paul IV).
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1563 February 16 |
John Dee in Antwerp writes to Cecil (the Queen's secty.) about intelligence collection and "Steganography". |
1563 March |
Reports that Dee helped Bishop Bonner persecute Protestants appear, in Foxe's "Acts and Monuments". |
1563 April |
Heading South, Dee stops over in Zurich. At Trent, the papal party is quashing any Imperial or French reforms. |
1563 June |
Dee travels to Venice and then on to Urbino, summering at this historical center of calendrical scholarship. |
1563 July 15 |
Having finally resolved its Eucharistic doctrines, the Council at Trent begins approving procedural reforms. |
1563 September |
After a short stay in Rome at the English Hospice, Dee heads for Maximilian's coronation, Pressburg, Hungary. |
1563 Nov-Dec |
Dee returns to Venice and Padua as the Council at Trent conducts its final two sessions. |
1564 January 13 |
Dee returns to Antwerp and dashes off a short book of twenty-four theorems, his "Monas Hieroglyphica". |
1564 January 26 |
Pope Pius IV confirms the decrees of Trent, prompting Petrus Pitatus to present his calendar reform proposal. |
1564 March 31 |
Publication of John Dee's "Monas Hieroglyphica" prefaced with a long dedication to Emperor Maximilian. |
1564 June 14 |
Returning to his Queen, Dee confides a secret of his "Monas", which Elizabeth agreed to "take in" & "act on". |

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