CHRONOLOGY OF THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MARGUERITE D'ANGOULÊME
| YEAR | MARGUERITE | POLITICAL EVENTS | SOCIAL EVENTS |
| 1476 | her mother, Louise de Savoie born, September 11, a leap year | Hapsburgs negotiate to acquire Netherlands | William Caxton prepares to print Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" |
| 1492 | birth of Marguerite d'Angoulême, daughter of Charles d'Orleans, comte d'Angoulême and Louise de Savoie (then 15 years old) | Spanish extinguish Moorish Kingdom. Charles VIII becomes King of France. Columbus discovers "America" | Leonardo Da Vinci sketches a flying machine |
| 1494 | birth of François, son of Charles d'Orleans, comte d"Angoulême and Louise de Savoie; brother of Marguerite | Charles VIII invades Italy, deposes Piero de' Medici, Pope flees. | Theocracy of Savanarola in Florence |
| 1515 | François Ier became King of France | Battle of Marignano, François conquers Milan | Raphael appointed architect-in-chief of St. Peters', Rome |
| 1519 | Marguerite married Charles, duc d'Alençon, moved to Alençon, established good library; went to court of François Ier | Charles I of Spain becomes Holy Roman Emperor Charles V | Leonarda Da Vinci dies while guest of François and Marguerite |
| 1521 | Marguerite began correspondence with Guillaume Briçonnet, Bishop of Lodeve, the King's envoy to the Pope, friend of Lefèvre d'Étaples (1450-1536). Cénacle de Meaux founded : members included Gerard Roussel, Michel d'Arande, Pierre Caroli, Guilllaume Farelll, François Vatable | Cortes destroys Aztec state, controls Mexico | Luther begins Bible translation. Silk manufacture begins in France |
| 1525 | Battle of Pavia - defeat of François Ier, taken prisoner by Charles V, sent to Spain, visited by Marguerite to secure his release; Louise de Savoie named Regent until François is returned to France | German Peasants' Revolt defeated. Peace signed betweeen England and France. | Dürer compiles first German manual on geometry |
| 1526 | Death of the duc d'Alençon, as a result of wounds in the Battle of Pavia | Babar founds Mogul Dynasty in Delhi | Portugese ships visit New Guinea |
| 1527 | Marriage of Marguerite to Henri d'Albret, King of Navarre; becomes Queen of Navarre, moves to castles at Pau & Nérac in kingdom of Navarre on border of Spain & France | "Sack of Rome" by Imperial troops, killing thousands, destroying art treasures, imprisoning Pope. | Paracelsus lectures on medicine at U. of Basel |
| 1528 | Birth of Jeanne d'Albret, future mother of King Henri IV | Kent weavers riot against Wolsey's plan to move "wool capitol" from Antwerp to Calais | Melancthon suggests German educational reforms. Reformation begins in Scotland. |
| 1529 | Paix des Dames, signed at Cambrai by Louise de Savoie, Marguerite and Catherine de Medici | Wolsey deposed, Sir Thomas More becomes Chancellor | François founds the College de France |
| 1531 | Death of Louise de Savoie, Publication of poem, (translated in 1544 by 11-year old future Queen Elizabeth I of England) Le Miroir de I'âme pécheresse (The Mirror of The Sinful Soul). (The original French manuscript was owned by Anne Boleyn, who had been a lady-in- waiting to Marguerite. Anne Boleyn had given it to her daughter, Elizabeth) | Henry VIII recognized at Head of Church of England | first complete edition of Aristotle's works published by Erasmus. |
| 1533 | Condemnation of Marguerite's poem, Le Miroir de I'âme pécheresse, by the Sorbonne, withdrawn after intervention of François I. It was reprinted seven times between 1533 and 1539. Gerard Roussel delivers Sermons for Lent at the Louvre, at request of the King | Pizarro defeats Incas in Peru | First madrigals printed in Rome |
| 1535 | Le malade (The Patient and the Cure), probably written by Marguerite at Pau | Sir Thomas More executed | Cartier's second voyage up St. Lawrence River, Quebec, Canada. Founding of London stock exchange. |
| 1536 | Inquisitor (The Inquisitor) probably written by Marguerite in Lyons | Anne Boleyn executed, Jane Seymour becomes Henry VIII's third wife. William Tyndale burned at stake. | Michelangelo paonts "Last Judgment" on altar wall of Cistine Chapel. |
| La coche and Le trimphe de Paigneau written by Marguerite | Spain annexes Cuba. Cartier discovers Labrador. | Rabelais writes "Gargantua", Part Two of "Pantagruel". | |
| 1544 or 1545 | Trop, Prou, Peu, Moins (Most, Much, Little, Less) written by Marguerite | Truce of Adrainople between Charles V, Ferdinand of Austria, and Suleiman of I. Council of Trent. | First botanical garden established in Padua. |
| 1547 | Publication of the first Marguerites de la Marguerite des Princesses at Lyons. Death of François Ier. Accession to the throne of France by Henri II, son of François Ier and Queen Claude | Henry VIII died, succeeded by Edward I. | Louis Bourgeois published his "Psalter". French replaces Latin as official language in France. |
| 1548 | Comédie sur le Trépas du Roi (Comedy on the Passing of the King) written by Marguerite | Turks occupy Tabriz, Persia. | Loyola publishes his "Spiritual Exercises" |
| 1549 | Death of Marguerite at her castle of Odos, near Turbes, on December 21st | Ivan I calls first National Assembly in Russia | Joachim du Bellay, leader of Pléade, states program of French classicism |
| 1558 | Publication of the Marguerite's Heptameron | Elizabeth I becomes Queen of England | Zarlino defines modern major & minor musical modes |
| 1896 | Publication of Prisons, probably written in 1547, upon death of brother, François Ier | Kitchener begins camapign against the Mahdi in Sudan | Ramsey discovers helium. First modern Olympics held in Athens. |
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