1477, Feb 7 Born in London to John and Agnes More

c. 1484-1489 Attends St. Anthony’s School, London (7-12)

c. 1489-1491 Page for Archbishop and Chancellor Morton (12-14)

c. 1491-1493 Student at Oxford (14-16)

c. 1493-1495 Pre-law student, New Inn, London (16-18)

1496-c. 1501 Law student, Lincoln’s Inn; called to bar (18-23)

1499 Meets Erasmus for the first time (22)

c. 1501-1504 Frequents Charterhouse (Carthusians) (24-27)

c. 1501 Lectures on St. Augustine’s City of God ; begins Greek (24)

c. 1503-1506 Reader at Furnivall’s Inn (26-29)

1504 Elected to Parliament (27)

1505 Marries Jane Colt; Margaret born (28)

1506 Studies intensely; visits Coventry; Elizabeth born (29)

1507 Financial secretary of Lincoln’s Inn; Cecily born (30)

c. 1508 Visits universities at Paris and Louvain (31)

1509 Member of Mercers’ Guild; John born; Henry VIII crowned (32)

1510 Elected to Parliament (33)

1510-1518 Undersheriff of London (33-41)

1511 After Jane’s death, marries Alice Middleton; Autumn Reader at Lincoln’s

Inn (34)

1512 Governor and treasurer of Lincoln’s Inn (35)

1513 Henry VIII leads an army against France; to Henry, Erasmus dedicates

his translation of Plutarch’s essay on flattery (36)

1514 Elected to Doctors’ Common; serves on sewers commission (37)

1515 Embassy to Bruges and Antwerp for commercial treaties; Lenten Reader

at Lincoln’s Inn; refuses royal pension (38)

1516 Continues to study history and political philosophy (39)

1517 Embassy to Calais; counsel to pope’s ambassador in England; Evil May

Day; Wolsey’s Treaty of Universal Peace; Luther’s “Ninety-five Theses”

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