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The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 7 (of 7)

Chapter 29: CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE.
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A collection of engraved portraits paired with concise memoirs of prominent historical figures, each entry combines a physical likeness with a readable biographical account that traces the subject's background, public career, intellectual contributions, and notable reforms or achievements. Entries move between monarchs, military leaders, legal and political thinkers, scientists, and artists, highlighting formative experiences, major campaigns or works, and the principles or methods that shaped their reputations. Short contextual essays situate each life within broader political or cultural events, and occasional discussion of character and legacy accompanies factual narrative. The volume emphasizes accessible prose and chronological sketches rather than exhaustive scholarship.

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE.

Arranged according to the Dates of Death.
Died
Dante 1321
Petrarch 1374
Boccacio 1375
Wiclif 1385
 
Chaucer about 1400
Lorenzo de’ Medici 1492
 
Bramante 1514
Ximenes 1517
Lionardo da Vinci 1519
Raphael 1520
Ariosto 1533
Corregio 1534
More 1535
Erasmus 1536
Copernicus 1543
Raimondi after 1540
Luther 1546
Cortez 1547
Cranmer 1536
Charles V. 1558
Melancthon 1560
Calvin 1564
Michael Angelo 1564
Loyola 1566
Knox 1572
L’Hôpital 1573
Titian 1576
Buchanan 1580
Palladio 1580
Paré 1590
Montaigne 1592
Tasso 1595
Drake 1596
Spenser 1599
 
Elizabeth 1603
Scaliger, Joseph 1609
Henry IV. 1610
Cervantes 1616
Shakespear 1616
De Thou 1617
Raleigh 1618
Bacon 1626
Kepler 1630
Coke 1632
Gustavus Adolphus 1632
Jonson 1637
Rubens 1640
Sully 1641
Richelieu 1642
Galileo 1642
Hampden 1643
Grotius 1645
Descartes 1650
Selden 1654
Blake 1657
Harvey 1657
Cromwell 1658
Pascal 1662
Poussin 1665
Taylor 1667
De Witt 1672
Molière 1673
Clarendon 1673
Rembrandt 1674
Milton 1674
Turenne 1675
Hale 1676
Barrow 1679
Hobbes 1679
Claude 1682
Murillo 1682
Colbert 1683
Corneille 1684
Sydenham 1689
Boyle 1691
Sobieski 1696
 
Dryden 1701
William III. 1702
Bossuet 1704
Locke 1704
Ray 1705
Vauban 1707
Fénélon 1715
Leibnitz 1716
Somers 1716
Penn 1718
Addison 1719
Marlborough 1722
Wren 1723
Peter I. 1725
Newton 1727
Defoe 1731
Bentley 1742
Halley 1742
Pope 1744
Swift 1745
D’Aguesseau 1751
Handel 1759
Dollond 1761
Bradley 1762
Hogarth 1764
Brindley 1772
Hume 1776
Harrison 1776
Rousseau 1778
Chatham 1778
Linnæus 1778
Voltaire 1778
Cook 1779
Turgot 1781
D’Alembert 1783
Euler 1783
Johnson 1785
Frederic II. 1786
Buffon 1788
La Perouse 1788
De l’Epée 1789
Franklin 1790
Adam Smith 1790
Wesley 1791
Arkwright 1792
Mozart 1792
Rodney 1792
Reynolds 1792
Smeaton 1792
Hunter 1793
Gibbon 1794
Jones 1794
Lavoisier 1794
Mansfield 1794
Catherine II. 1796
Burke 1797
Schwartz 1798
Black 1799
Washington 1799
 
Cowper 1800
Priestley 1804
Nelson 1805
Pitt 1805
Schiller 1805
Fox 1806
Porson 1808
Maskelyne 1811
La Grange 1813
Kosciusko 1817
De Staël 1817
Romilly 1818
Watt 1819
Banks 1820
Napoleon 1821
Canova 1822
Delambre 1822
Herschel 1822
Cartwright 1823
Jenner 1823
Erskine 1823
Flaxman 1826
Jefferson 1826
La Place 1827
Wollaston 1828
Davy 1829
Bolivar 1830
Siddons 1831
Bentham 1832
Cuvier 1832
Scott 1832
Goethe 1832
Wilberforce 1833

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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

  1. Changed the date “5570” to “1570” on p. 49.
  2. Corrected the repeated page numbers to volume iv in the ALPHABETICAL INDEX on p. 197.
  3. Silently corrected typographical errors.
  4. Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed.