[ Map ] [ Magick Is ] [ Enochian Wards ] [ Enochian Pentagram Rite [file]] [ Home ] [ The Great Enochian Table ] [ The Shadow Maze ] [ email ] Enochian History © 1997 by Parker Torrence "One season let it confound another, and let there be no creature upon or within her the same:" ~ From The Enochian Key to the Aethyrs This time line is introduced to demonstrate a refined view of events at work, modeling the convictions and understanding of Dr. John Dee's world. 1451 Christopher Columbus born 1452 Leonardo Da Vinci born 1462 Johannes Trithemius born 1473 Nicolaus Copernicus born 1480 Ferdinand Magellan born 1483 Martin Luther born 1485 Hernando Cortes born 1486 Henry Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim born 1491 Henry VIII born 1492 America re-discovered by the Europeans 1493 Philippus Theophrastus Paracelsus born 1500 Georg Pictorius von Villingen born ~ March 27 Trithemius' First book of the Steganographia was completed 1502 Ugo Buoncompagni born (would become Pope Gregory XIII) 1503 December 14 Michel de Notredame born (Nostradamus) 1506 Christopher Columbus dies 1509 Henry VIII became King of England 1514 Como Italy, 300 persons were burned at the stake 1516 Mary I born (Mary Tudor) ~ Johannes Trithemius died (Abbot of Sponheim, teacher of Agrippa & Paracelsus) 1519 Leonardo Da Vinci died 1520 Rabbi Judah Loew born 1521 Ferdinand Megellan died (Navigator) 1527 Maximillian II born ~ Philip II born ~ July 13 John Dee born 1529 Approximate beginning of the "Age of the Angel Gabriel" 1531 Agrippa's De Occulta philosophia libritres published at Antwerp 1533 Elizabeth I born ~ Agrippa's De Occulta philosophia libritres published at Cologne 1535 Henry Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim died (Hermetic writer) 1537 Edward VI born ~ Jane Gray born 1540 Francis Drake born 1541 Tycho Brahe born ~ Philippus Theophrastus Paracelsus died (Hermetic writer) ~ England passed Witchcraft Statute 1542 Mary Stuart born (Queen of Scots) 1543 Nicolaus Copernicus died (Astronomer) 1545 John Gerald born 1546 Martin Luther died (leader of the Protestant Reformation movement in Germany) 1547 Henry VIII died (established the Church of England) ~ Edward VI became King of England ~ Witchcraft Statute of 1541 repealed in England ~ Hernando Cortes died (Conqueror of Mexico) 1548 Giordano Bruno born 1550 John Dee in Antwerp 1551 John Dee under Royal patronage of King Edward VI 1552 July 18 Rudolf von Habsburg born (Rudolf II) ~ December 30 Simon Forman born 1553 July 16 Edward VI died ~ Jane Gray became Queen of England for nine days ~ Mary I became Queen of England ~ Jane Gray beheaded 1555 John Dee imprisoned for heresy ~ August 1 Edward Kelley born 1556 Philip II became King of Spain 1558 November 17 Mary I died 1559 January 15 Elizabeth I became Queen of England (the coronation date picked from a horoscope cast by John Dee) ~ Agrippa's Heptameron published at Marburg 1561 Johannes Theodorus de Bry born 1562 John Dee in Antwerp ~ England passed Witchcraft Statute 1563 Georg Pictorius von Villingen's Isagoge published at Basel 1564 Galileo Galilei born ~ William Shakespeare born ~ John Dee wrote Monas Hieroglyphica ~ John Dee departed Antwerp ~ Maximillian II became Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1566 James VI born King of Scotland (son of Mary Queen of Scots) ~ Michel de Notredame died (Nostradamus) 1569 Georg Pictorius von Villingen died 1570 John Dee settled at Mortlake in Richmond-upon-Thames 1572 Ugo Buoncompagni became Pope Gregory XIII 1573 James Bonaventure Hepburn born 1574 Robert Fludd born 1575 March 10 Queen Elizabeth I visited John Dee's library at Mortlake ~ Arbatel, De Magia Verum published at Basel 1576 Maximillian II died ~ Rudolf II became Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1578 John Dee married Jane Fromond (his third wife) 1580 Philip II King of Spain became Philip I King of Portugal ~ Rabbi Judah Loew engendered the famous Golem in Prague 1581 John Dee begins experimenting with Angelic magic 1582 Pope Gregory XIII revised the Julian calendar into the Gregorian Calendar ~ March 10 John Dee begins working with Edward Kelley and they start receiving the Heptarchia Mystica ~ March 20 Dee/Kelley receive the Enochian alphabet 1583 March 29 Dee/Kelley start receiving Liber Logaeth ~ May 8 Dee/Kelley are foretold by the Angel Uriel of the death of the Queen of Scots (1587) and the coming of the Spanish Armada (1588) ~ A mob destroyed a large part of John Dee's library at Mortlake 1584 John Dee and Edward Kelley in Cracow ~ April 13 Dee/Kelley begin receiving 48 Claves Angelicae (48 Angelic Keys), Liber Scientiae Auxilii et Vectoriae Terrestris (The Book of Knowledge, Help and Earthly Victory) and A Book of Supplications and Invocations ~ June 20 Vision of Four Castles received by Kelley 1585 Pope Gregory XIII died (born Ugo Buoncompagni) 1586 Irish Parliament pass Witchcraft Statute ~ John Dee and Edward Kelley in Prague 1587 Mary Queen of Scots beheaded ~ April 20 The Great Angelic Table is reformed by the Angel Raphael 1589 John Dee returns to England, Edward Kelley stays in Prague 1595 John Dee is granted Wardenship of Manchester College ~ Edward Kelley died (Seer and Alchemist) 1596 Sir Francis Drake died ( First Englishman to sail around the World) 1598 Philip II King of Spain (Philip I King of Portugal) died 1600 Giordano Bruno burned at stake by the Inquisition ~ Charles I born (Charles Stuart) 1601 Tycho Brahe died (Danish Astronomer, the inscription on his tombstone reads; "Better to be than seem to be.") 1603 Elizabeth I died ~ James VI King of Scotland became James I King of England 1604 Rudolf II has the "alchemy taler" minted in Prague ~ July 26 John Dee meets Simon Forman 1605 Jane (Fromond) Dee died of plague 1606 Trithemius' Steganographia published at Frankfurt 1607 James Town becomes the first permanent English settlement in America ~ John Gerald died (Herbalist) 1608 John Dee died 1609 Rabbi Judah Loew died (Jewish cabalist) 1611 September 8 Simon Forman died (Physician and Astrologer) 1612 January 20 Rudolf II died (Rudolf von Habsburg) 1616 Hepburn's Virga Aurea published at Rome ~ William Shakespeare died (Playwright and Poet) 1618 The 30 year War began (German Catholics against German Protestants) 1620 Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock ~ Robert Turner of 'Holshott' born (Translator of Hermetic and Magical Books) ~ The Magical Calendar published at Frankfurt 1620 James Bonaventure Hepburn died (a Scot who was Keeper of Oriental Books and Manuscripts at the Vatican library, also noted for his translation into Latin of the cabalistic text "the Kettar Malcuth of Rabbi Solomon") 1623 Johannes Theodorus de Bry died (Frankfurt printer of Hermetic works) 1625 James VI King of Scotland (James I King of England) died ~ Charles I became King of England, Scotland, and Ireland 1637 July 8 Robert Fludd died (Hermetic Philosopher and Medical Practitioner) 1642 Galileo Galilei died 1649 Charles I died 1655 Agrippa's Heptameron translated by Robert Turner and published as Forth Book of Occult Philosophy at London 1659 Meric Casaubon published "A True and Faithful Relation of what passed for many Years between Dr John Dee ... and some Spirits" at London ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The time line begins 76 years before the birth of Dee; in those 76 years Christopher Columbus and Leonardo Da Vinci are born, live and die. America is rediscovered; Agrippa and Nostradamus are born, as well as Martin Luther and King Henry VIII. The actions of these two would lead to the shattering of the Roman Catholic Church's hold upon Europe, and give rise to the Protestant movements. In short the world was changing, and it was changing faster then it had in a thousand years. In Dee's life time, the earth was no longer viewed as the center of the solar system, a Virgin Queen sat upon the throne of England, and an Alchemist Emperor sat upon the throne of the Holy Roman Empire. Nostradamus recorded his visions, Shakespeare wrote his plays, and Galileo discovered gravity. This 208 year span of time ends, with the publication of Dee's Enochian records by Meric Casaubon, 51 years after Dee's death. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Road to Enochiana image map] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [ Map ] [ Magick Is ] [ Enochian Wards ] [ Enochian Pentagram Rite ] [ The Great Enochian Table ] [ The Shadow Maze ] [ email ] [ Home ] "The Scrolls are © by MOI, all rights reserved, all wrongs returned threefold" Background WebArt "Key 18" © by Parker | last updated October 31, 1997