Sidney+Family+Chronology

1602: Mary published **//A Dialogue Between Two Shepherds, Thenot and Piers.//**
 * Sidney Family Chronology**
 * 1554:** **Sir Philip Sidney was born at Penshurst, Kent.**
 * 1561: Mary Sidney born.**
 * 1563: Robert Sidney born.**
 * 1564:** **Philip entered Shrewsbury School**
 * 1569: Thomas Sidney born.**
 * 1568:** **Philip furthered his education at Christ Church, Oxford**
 * 1571:** **Philip left Christ Church without taking a degree in order to complete his education by travelling the continent.**
 * 1575: Robert Sidney entered school at Christ Church, Oxford.**
 * Approx 1571:** **Philip visited Paris, Frankfurt, Venice, and Vienna.**
 * 1575: Philip** **returned to England.**
 * 1577:** **Philip sent as ambassador to the German Emperor and the Prince of Orange. Officially there to console the princes on the deaths of their fathers.**
 * --. Mary Sidney married to Henry Herbert, Earl of Pembroke.**
 * 1579-1580:** **Philip displeased the queen by opposing her projected marriage to the Duke of Anjou, Roman Catholic heir to the French throne, and was dismissed from court for a time. Retired to his sister’s house at Wilton where the so-called “Wilton Circle” (an intellectual coterie) was formed.**
 * At Wilton, Philip began an early draft of the Arcadia, a pastoral romance intended supposedly to entertain Mary.**
 * 1581: Philip’s “Stella,” Penelope Devereaux, married Lord Rich.**
 * 1583: Philip married Frances, daughter and heiress of Sir Francis Walsingham.**
 * 1580s: Philip reorganized and expanded //The Arcadia//, adding such episodes as the story of the just rebel Amphialus. The additions more than double the original story but the manuscript was still not completed.**
 * 1584: Robert married Barbara, daughter and heiress of John Gamage.**
 * 1585:** **Philip made covert attempt to join Drake`s expedition to Cadiz**
 * 1585****: Queen Elizabeth appointed Philip the Governor Flushing (Vlissingen). Robert Accompanied him to Flushing, or possibly follows him thre in the train of his uncle, the Earl of Leister.**
 * 1586****: May, Death of siblings’ father, Sir Henry Sidney.**
 * --. August, Death of Lady Sidney.**
 * --.** **September, Sidney, along with his younger brother Robert, took part in a skirmish against the Spanish at the Battle of Zutphen, and was wounded of a musket shot that shattered his thigh-bone**
 * --. October 7: Robert Sidney knighted at camp near Zutphen for valiant conduct in battle.**
 * October 17: Philip died of his unhealed wound at age 31 (a month shy of his 32nd birthday).**
 * 1587: Robert’s eldest daughter, Mary, born (eventually Mary Wroth).**
 * 1588-1602: Birth of ten more children to Robert and Barbara (3 sons and seven daughters).**
 * 1588: Robert sent to Scotland on diplomatic mission to King James VI of Scotland. Barbara remained in England.**
 * --.** **Family friend, Fulke Greville appealed to Francis Walsingham to prevent unauthorized publication of parts of Sidney’s //Arcadia//, which had circulated only among select people in manuscript form. This version is known as the “Old Arcadia.”**
 * 1589: Robert appointed Governor of Flushing.**
 * 1590: First publication of Sidney’s Arcadia (The “Old Arcadia”).** **After Sidney's death, his revised //Arcadia// was prepared for the press and published in two differing editions. Fulke Greville, in collaboration with others, oversaw the publication of this first published edition, which ends in mid-scene and mid-sentence.**
 * --. Philip’s widow married Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex.**
 * --. Robert slightly wounded at successful siege of Spanish-held Dutch town of Steenwyck.**
 * 1591****: Philip’s //Astrophel and Stella// published.**
 * 1592: Mary published translations of Robert Garnier’s play, //The Tragedie of Antonie//** and **//The Triumph of Death.//**
 * 1590s: Robert composed //Sonnets and Songs// (never published but circulated in manuscript).**
 * 1593: Mary published a second edition of Philip’s //Arcadia//. In this edition, the original first version from 1580 was used by Mary to supplement and conclude the sections that Sidney had revised in the 1580s. [note: Other later additions were also published which filled in gaps in the story, most notably the fifth edition of 1621.] Mary’s version is known as The //Countesse of Pembroke’s Arcadia// or the //New Arcadia//.**
 * 1594: Robert sent to France on diplomatic mission to meet with Henry IV.**
 * 1595: Philip’s** **//The Defense of Poesie// published. Death of brother, Thomas Sidney. Mary publishes “The Dolefull Lay of Clorinda,” an elegy for Philip.**
 * 1595. Robert and Barbara to Flushing; Robert played important role in routing of Spanish army at Turnhout.**
 * 1598: Publication of Philip’s //The Lady of May//**.
 * 1599: Mary published Philip’s and her translation of //The Psalms.//**
 * 1603: Death of Queen Elizabeth I and ascension of King James I/VI; Robert became Baron Sidney of Penshurt and appointed Chamberlain to James’s Queen Consort, Anne of Denmark.**
 * 1604: Robert’s daughter, Mary, married Sir Robert Wroth.**
 * 1605: Mary Wroth danced in Ben Jonson’s Masque of Blackness at Whitehall.**
 * 1614: Death of Mary Wroth’s husband, Sir Robert.**
 * 1616: Dutch towns of Flushing and Brill restored to the Dutch; termination of Robert’s governorship.**
 * --. Publication of Ben Jonson’s poem, “To Penshurst,” praising Robert and Barbara Sidney.**
 * 1621. Death of Barbara.**
 * --. Death of Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke.**
 * --. Publication of fifth edition of //The Arcadia//.**
 * --. Publication of Lady Mary Wroth’s //The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania// and //Pamphilia to Amphilanthus// (1621).**
 * 1625: Death of James I.**
 * 1626: Death of Robert Sidney.**