Chrono by Al Klisiak

John Dee:

1527 b. at London
1537-1542 schooling Chantry School at Chelmsford in
Essex
1542-6 St. Johns College, Cambridge;B.A.
1545 Fellow of St. Johns College 
c.1546-50 Fellow of Trinity
1548 Earns M.A.
1548-50 tutored influential people in the  subject of
mathematics and geography, such as the Earl of
Warwick.
1550 in Paris expounding  mathematical-magical
philosophy revived by Ficino, brings Navigational
instruments to England
1551-55 gains the patronage of Dutchess of
Northumberland and her husband
1551 offered professorship at the University of
Paris--he declined.
1552 King Edward grants him a pension of 100 crowns
1553 Exchanges pension for Rectorship of
Uptown-upon-Severn in Worcestershire. c. 53 Developed
the paradoxical compass,or chart.
1554 offered a position as a lecturer at the on
mathematics at Oxford--he declined.
1556 petition to Queen Mary to preserve the monastic
libraries
1558 w. Propaeduemata aphoristica
1558-1602 was free lance advisor to the crown.
1564 w Monas Heiroglyphia, travels to Presburg where
he presents a copy of Heiroglyphia to Maximillian II,
to whom the work was dedicated.
1566 Rectorship or Long Leadenham in Linconshire
1548-51 Studies at Louvain University with Gemma
Frisius and Mercator
1551-83 consultant to the Muscovy Company 
1570 ed. Billingsly translation of Euclid, added
famous preface in justification of mathematics.
1577 w Perfecte Arte of Navigation
1582 involved with Edward Kelly in occult and
alchemical works.
1583 Prince of Poland, Lasky, promises Dee
compensations he did not receive from Elizabeth.
1584 travels to Prague, alienates Rudolph and is
temporarily banished from the Empire.
1586-8 guest of Count Rosenberg of Bohemia
1586-9 acted as a magician and alchemist
1592-1605 Wardenship of Christ College,
Manchester--did not fill post.
1608 d. in poverty at Mortlake, Surrey, England


sources-- The Life of John Dee; an Elizabethan Crystal
Gazer, by Charlotte Fell Smith
John Dee; The World of an Elizabethan Magus, by Peter
J. French
and the web page: John Dee, at http://es.
rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Gallileo/Catalog/Files/dee.html.