Pieter Bruegel Timeline

1516	Hieronymus Bosch dies on August 9th.
1517	Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses against the abuse of indulgence.
1519	Luther’s works circulate in Antwerp.
1520	Luther’s works are translated into Dutch and put into circulation. Charles V publishes his first Placard against Heretics.
1522	Francois van der Hulst appointed inquisitor with full power.
1536	Erasmus of Rotterdam dies.
c. 1525-1530	Bruegel Born
1543	Calvinism spreads to the Netherlands.
c. 1545	Pieter Bruegel allegedly apprenticed to Pieter Coeck in Brussels.
c. 1546	Jerome Cock becomes an art dealer and publisher of engravings.
1548	Mathys Cock, landscape painter and brother to Jerome Cock dies.
1550	Pieter Coeck dies on December 20th.
	Charles V issues a second Placard, which was more particularly aimed at the Genevese heresy and reinforces measurs against the Protestants.
1551	Bruegel’s name appears in the Antwerp register of the painter’s guild.
1552	Bruegel travels to Italy.
1553	Bruegel Drew: Landscape with River and Mountains, View of Waltensburg?
	Bruegel Painted: Lanscape with Christ Appearing to the Apostles at the Sea of Tiberius
	Pieter Bruegel returns from Italy, late in the year.
1554	Pieter Bruegel drew: View of Waltensburg, Forest Landscape with Bears, Mountain Landscape

1556	Bruegel Drew: The Ass in the School, The Big Fish Eating the Little Fish, The Temptations of St. Anthony
	Philip II succeedes his father Charles V.
1557	Brugel Painted:Landscape with the Parable of the Sower
	Bruegel Drew: Desidia, Gula
1558	Bruegel Painted: Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
	Bruegel Drew: Elck, The Alchemist, The Land Judgement
1559	Bruegel Paitned: The Fight between Carnival and Lent, Netherlandish Proverbs
	Bruegel Drew: Fides, Spes, The Witch of Malleghem
	Pieter Bruegel begins signing his works, “P. BRVEGEL”. Earlier works were signed, “brueghel”
1560	Bruegel Painted: Children’s Games
	Drew: Landscape with Church, River Landscape
1561	Bruegel Drew: Christ in Limbo
1562	Bruegel Painted: The Fall of The Rebel Angels, Mad Meg/Dulle Griet, The Triumph of Death, The Suicide of Saul, Two Monkeys
	Bruegel leaves Antwerp for Amsterdam, and sketches the towers, gates, canals and moats.
1563	Bruegel Painted: The Tower of Babel (I), Lanscape with the Flight into Egypt
	Bruegel starts signing painting dates in roman numberals.
	October, Bruegel marries Mariette, the daughter of Pieter Coeck, and moves back to Brussels. She is around 18-19.
1564	Bruegel Painted: The Tower of Bable (II), The Procession to Calvary, The Adoration of The Kings, The Slaughter of the Innocents?, The Death of the Virgin
	Peter the Younger is born to Pieter and Mariette.
1565	Bruegel Painted: The Hunters in the Snow, The Gloomy Day, Haymaking, The Harvesters, The Return of the Herd, Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap, Christ and the Adulteress
	Drew: The Calumny of Apelles, Spring
1566	Bruegel Painted: The Census at Bethlehem, The Sermon of Saint John The Baptist, The Wedding Dance
	Bruegel resumes his interest in engraving and etching. Makes The Landscape with Rabbit Hunters.
	Outbreaks of the iconoclastic movement gives Philip II a pretext for sending the Duke of Alba to organize a systematic repression.
1567	Bruegel Painted: The Land of Cockaigne, The Conversion of Saul, the Adoration of the Kings in the Snow, The Wedding Banquet?, The Peasant Dance?
	William of Orange leaves the country, which is being invaded by Alba. Capital executions are rampant.
	Jan Bruegel is born to Pieter and Mariette.
1568	Bruegel Painted: The Wedding Banquet?, The Peasant Dance?, The Misanthrope, The Parable of The Blind, The Peasant and the Bird-Nester, Landscape with the Magpie on the Gallows, The Cripples, The Storm at Sea?
	Bruegel Drew: The Beekeepers and the Bird-Nester?, Summer
1569	Painted: The Storm at Sea?
	Municipality of Brussels exempts Bruegel from furnishing billets to Spanish soldiers, due to failing health.
	Bruegel Dies on September 5th.

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