| Timeline |
| 1572 |
Born around 11 June |
| 1592 |
Returns to England |
| 1594 |
Marries Anne Lewis 14 November |
| 1597 |
Imprisoned for his involvement in a satire entitled The Isle of Dogs |
| 1597 |
Joins the London theatrical company of Philip Henslowe as an actor and playwright |
| 1598 |
Every Man in His Humour produced |
| 1598 |
Jonson kills a fellow actor, Gabriel Spencer, in a duel in the Fields at Shoreditch and was tried at Old Bailey for murder |
| 1599 |
Every Man Out of His Humour produced |
| 1600 |
Cynthia's Revels produced |
| 1601 |
The Poetaster produced |
| 1603 |
Sejanus, His Fall produced |
| 1604 |
Collaborates with Dekker on The King's Entertainment
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| 1604 |
Collaborates with Marston and George Chapman on Eastward Ho - is imprisoned briefly for the controversial views espoused by Eastward Ho |
| 1605 |
Masque of Blacknesse |
| 1605 |
Volpone, or The Fox performed |
| 1608 |
Masque of Beauty |
| 1609 |
Masque of Queens and Epicoene: or, The Silent Woman performed |
| 1610 |
The Alchemist performed |
| 1610 |
Converts back to Anglicism |
| 1614 |
Bartholomew Fair performed |
| 1616 |
The Devil is an Ass |
| 1616 |
Works, in folio, published |
| 1616 |
Appointed as poet laureate and rewarded with a pension
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| 1618 |
Jonson journeys to Scotland on foot |
| 1619 |
Receives an honorary Master of Arts degree from Oxford University |
| 1625 |
The Staple of News |
| 1628 |
Appointed City Chronologer of London |
| 1628 |
Suffers a severe stroke |
| 1629 |
The New Inn |
| 1633 |
A Tale of a Tub |
| 1637 |
Dies 6 August, is buried in Westminster Abbey |
| ? |
Converts to Roman Catholicism |
