Bacon's Dictionary
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The exhibits and miniatures of which are found in this section, are designed to assist the serious student and reader in following the path of the Authorship Controvesy that has been so laboriously persued by many authors and researchers during its commence.
These exhibits have been placed here as not to interrupt the flow of reading in the Baconian Dictionary sections, being a finding list of Bacon’s works, his history, his thoughts and his aims, which are a subject of study and discussion.
Chronological Summary in Bacon’s Life
Event/Month Year
Birth, January 22 1560–61
Admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge, April 1573
Left Trinity College, December 1575
Admitted to Gray’s Inn, June 27 1576
With Sir Amyas Paulet in France, September 25 1576–79
Death of Sir Nicholas Bacon, February 1579
Student of Gray’s Inn 1579
Utter Barrister of Gray’s Inn, June 27 1582
Enters Parliament 1584
First intervention in Church controversies 1584
Bencher of Gray’s Inn 1586
Reader of Gray’s Inn 1588
Attained reversion of the Register’s Office,
in the Star Chamber, October 1589
Connection with Essex begins c.1591 (Spedding)
Resists Government on Subsidies 1593
Queen’s Council Learned, Extraordinary 1594
Receives estate from Essex 1595
Regularly employed as Queen’s Council Learned 1597
Essex’s Irish campaign 1599
Double Reader of Gray’s Inn 1600
Essex’s Rebellion 1601
Essex’s trial and execution 1601
Knighted 1603
Appointed King’s Counsel 1604
Marriage 1606
Solicitor General 1607
Registrar of Star Chamber 1608
Attorney General 1613
Connection with Villiers (later Duke of
Buckingham) c.1615
Appointed Counsellor of State 1616
Lord Keeper 1617
Lord Chancellor and Baron Verulam 1618
Viscount St. Albans 1621
Parliament attacks referees on monopolies 1621
First charge of bribery, March 14 1621
Condemned, May 3 1621
Death, April 9 1626