| G. V.'s Life | Order of G. V.'s Plays | Contemporary Events |
| c.1465?Birth of G. V. | | c.1465 Death of FranÇois Villon. |
| | 1466 Death of Donatello. |
| | 1467Birth of Desiderius Erasmus. |
| | 1469 Death of Jorge Manrique. |
| | — Birth of NiccolÒ Machiavelli. |
| | 1469? Birth of Juan del Enzina. |
| | 1470 Birth of Pietro Bembo. |
| | — Birth of Garcia de Resende. |
| | 1471 Birth of Albrecht DÜrer. |
| | 1474 Birth of Lodovico Ariosto. |
| | 1475 Birth of Michael Angelo. |
| | 1477 Birth of Titian. |
| | 1478 Birth of Baldassare Castiglione (†1526). |
| | — Birth of Gian Giorgio Trissino. |
| | — Birth of Sir Thomas More. |
| | 1481 Accession of JoÃo II. |
| | 1482 Birth of Bernardim Ribeiro. |
| | 1483 Birth of Raffael. |
| | — Birth of Martin Luther. |
| | — Birth of Francesco Guicciardini. |
| | — Beheadal of Duke of Braganza. |
| [1484-6 Snr Braamcamp Freire assigns G. V.'s first marriage to one of these years] | | 1484 King JoÃo II stabs to death the Duke of Viseu. |
| | 1485 [or later] Birth of SÁ de Miranda. |
| [1486-8 Acc. to Snr Braamcamp Freire, birth of G. V.'s eldest son] | | 1486 Birth of Andrea del Sarto. |
| | — Death of Andrea Verrocchio. |
| | 1487 Cape of Good Hope rounded by Bartholomeu Dias. |
| | 1489 Birth of Thomas Cranmer. |
| 1490? G. V. comes to Court at Evora? | | 1490 Marriage of Prince Afonso and Isabel, d. of the Catholic Kings. |
| c.1490? G. V.'s first marriage [to Branca Bezerra]? | | — Birth of Vittoria Colonna. |
| | 1491 Death of Prince Afonso at Santarem. |
| | — Birth of S. Ignacio de Loyola. |
| | — Christopher Columbus sails for America. |
| | — First Portuguese book printed in Portugal. |
| c.1492? Birth of G. V.'s eldest son, Gaspar? | | 1492 Conquest of Granada. |
| | 1493 Columbus arrives at Lisbon (6 March) after discovering America. |
| | — Birth of AndrÉ de Resende. |
| | 1493 or 4 Birth of Nicolaus Clenardus. |
| | 1494 Death of Angelo Poliziano. |
| | 1494 or 5 Birth of FranÇois Rabelais. |
| | 1495 (25 Oct.) Accession of King Manuel. |
| | 1496? Birth of ClÉment Marot († 1544). |
| | 1497 (July) Vasco da Gama leaves Lisbon. |
| | — Forced conversion of Jews in Portugal. |
| | — Birth of Hans Holbein. |
| | — Birth of Philip Melancthon. |
| | 1498 Girolamo Savonarola burnt at Florence. |
| | 1499 (Sept.) Return of Gama from India. |
| | 1500 Pedro Alvarez Cabral discovers Brazil. |
| | — Death of Sandro Botticelli. |
| | — Birth of Benvenuto Cellini. |
| | — Birth of Emperor Charles V. |
| | — Birth of Dom JoÃo de Castro. |
| 1502 (Lisbon, 7 or 8 June) Auto da VisitaÇam (1). | 1502 (6 June) Birth of JoÃo III. |
| — (Lisbon, Christmas) Auto Pastoril Castelhano (2). | |
| 1503-6 G. V. fashions the celebrated Belem monstrance with the first tribute of gold from India. | 1503(Lisbon, 6 Jan.) Auto dos Reis Magos (3). | 1503 Birth of Garci Lasso de la Vega. |
| | — Birth of Sir Thomas Wyatt. |
| | — Famine and plague in Portugal. |
| | — The cousins Albuquerque and Duarte Pacheco Pereira sail for India. |
| | — (24 Oct.) Birth of Infanta (afterwards Empress) Isabel. |
| 1504 (Lisbon) Auto de S. Martinho (4). | 1504 Heroic campaign of D. Pacheco Pereira in India. |
| | — (31 Dec.) Birth of Inf. Beatriz. |
| 1505? Birth of G. V.'s second son, Belchior. | | 1505 Riots against Jews at Evora. |
| | — (end July) Arrival at Lisbon of 15 ships laden with spices. Solemn procession in honor of D. Pacheco. |
| 1506 G. V. preaches a sermon in verse on the birth of Prince Luis (3 March). | | 1506 (Low Sunday, Pascoela) Massacre of Jews at Lisbon. |
| | — Birth of S. Francis Xavier. |
| | — Birth of Inf. Luis (†1555). |
| | — (30 Sept.) Death of D. Beatriz (King Manuel's mother). |
| | 1507 (5 June) Birth of Inf. Fernando. |
| 1508 (Dec.) or 1509 (Jan.) (Lisbon) Quem tem farelos? (5). | 1508 The King raises interdict placed on Lisbon after massacre of Jews. |
| | — News brought to the King at Evora of the siege of Arzila. |
1509? G. V. writes some verses for a poetical contest at Almada, printed in the Canc. de Resende (1516).
| 1509 (Almada, Holy Week?) Auto da India (6). | 1509 (Jan.) D. Pacheco defeats the French pirate Mondragon. |
| — (23 Ap.) Birth of Inf. Afonso. |
| 1509 (15 Feb.) G. V. is appointed Vedor (overseer) of all works in gold and silver in the Convent of Thomar, the Hospital of All Saints,Lisbon, and the Convent of Belem. | | —Birth of Jean Calvin. |
| — Afonso de Albuquerque Governor of India. |
| 1510 (Almeirim, Christmas) Auto da FÉ (7). | 1510 Death of Dom Francisco de Almeida, first Viceroy of India. |
| | — Albuquerque attacks Calicut and takes Goa. |
| | 1510? Birth of Lope de Rueda. |
| 1511 (Lisbon, Carnival?) Auto das Fadas (8). | 1511 Albuquerque takes Malaca. |
| | — Henry VIII of England sends King Manuel, his brother-in-law, the Order of the Garter. |
| 1512 (21 Dec.) G. V. is elected one of the Twenty-four by the Lisbon Guild of Goldsmiths. | 1512 (Lisbon, early in the year) Farsa dos Fisicos (9). | 1512 (31 Jan.) Birth of Cardinal-King Henrique (†1580). |
| 1513 (4 Feb.) G. V. is appointed Mestre da BalanÇa. | 1513 (Lisbon, Holy Week?) O Velho da Horta (10). | 1513 James, Duke of Braganza, sets sail from Lisbon with a splendidly-equipped fleet of 450 vessels to capture Azamor. |
| — (17 Oct.) G. V. is elected by the Twenty-four to be one of their four representatives on the Lisbon Town Council. | — (Lisbon, August) ExhortaÇÃo da Guerra (11). | — Albuquerque in the Red Sea and at Aden. |
| 1513? (Lisbon, Christmas) Auto da Sibila Cassandra (12). | — Leo X, son of Lorenzo de' Medici, becomes Pope. |
| 1514 (1512-14?) G. V. loses his first wife, Branca Bezerra. | 1514 (Lisbon) Comedia do Viuvo (13). | 1514 Portuguese Embassy to Pope Leo X with magnificent presents from the East. Garcia de Resende and the rest of the Mission reach Italy end of Jan. 1514. |
| 1515 (21 Sept.)
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