1563 Drayton born at Hartshill, Warwickshire.
1572? Drayton a page in the house of Sir Henry Goodere, at
Polesworth.
c. 1574 Anne Goodere born?
Feb. 1591 Drayton in London. _Harmony of Church_.
1593 _Idea, the Shepherd's Garland_. _Legend of Peirs Gaveston_.
1594 _Ideas Mirrour_. _Matilda_. Lucy Harrington becomes Countess
of Bedford.
1595 Sir Henry Goodere the elder dies. _Endimion and Phoebe_,
dedicated to Lucy Bedford.
1595-6 Anne Goodere married to Sir Henry Rainsford.
1596 _Mortimeriados_. _Legends of Robert, Matilda, and Gaveston_.
1597 _England's Heroical Epistles_.
1598 Drayton already at work on the _Polyolbion_.
1599 _Epistles_ and _Idea_ sonnets, new edition. (Date of Portrait
of Drayton in National Portrait Gallery.)
1600 _Sir John Oldcastle_.
1602 New edition of _Epistles_ and _Idea_.
1603 Drayton made an Esquire of the Bath, to Sir Walter Aston.
_To the Maiestie of King James_. _Barons' Wars_.
1604 _The Owle_. _A Pean Triumphall_. _Moyses in a Map of his
Miracles_.
1605 First collected edition of _Poems_. Another edition of
_Idea_ and _Epistles_.
1606 _Poemes Lyrick and Pastorall_. _Odes_. _Eglogs_.
_The Man in the Moone_.
1607 _Legend of Great Cromwell_.
1608 Reprint of Collected Poems.
1609 Another edition of _Cromwell_.
1610 Reprint of Collected Poems.
1613 Reprint of Collected Poems. First Part of _Polyolbion_.
1618 Two _Elegies_ in FitzGeoffrey's _Satyrs and Epigrames_.
1619 Collected Folio edition of Poems.
1620 Second edition of _Elegies_, and reprint of 1619 Poems.
1622 _Polyolbion_ complete.
1627 _Battle of Agincourt_, _Nymphidia_, &c.
1630 _Muses Elizium_. _Noah's Floud_. _Moses his Birth and
Miracles_. _David and Goliah_.
1631 Second edition of 1627 folio. Drayton dies towards the end
of the year.
1636 Posthumous poem appeared in _Annalia Dubrensia_.
1637 _Poems_.