Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Albans, KC (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, spy, freemason and essayist. He was knighted in 1603, created Baron Verulam in 1618, and created Viscount St Albans in 1621; both peerage titles becoming extinct upon his death.

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Period = from:1560 till:1630

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at:1561 text:Born at London

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at:1573 fontsize:XS text:Ed. at Trinity Coll. Cambridge; dissatisfied with Aristotlean philosophy

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at:1579 text:Enters Gray's Inn

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from:1576 till:1579 text:In France

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at:1582 text:Called to Bar

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at:1584 text:Enters Parliament

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at:1591 text:Becomes friend of Essex

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at:1593 text:Essex presents him with estate

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at:1597 text:Publishes first ed of Essays

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at:1601 text:Prosecutes Essex

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at:1605 text:Publishes Advancement of Learning

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at:1607 text:Solicitor General

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at:1609 text:Publishes Wisdom of the Ancients

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at:1613 text:Attorney General

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at:1616 text:Prosecutes Somerset

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at:1618 fontsize:XS text:Lord Keeper

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at:1619 fontsize:XS text:Lord Chancellor with title of Verulam

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at:1620 fontsize:XS text:Publishes Novum Organum

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at:1621 fontsize:XS text:Viscount St. Albans; Charged with corruption, retires from public life.

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at:1622 fontsize:XS text:Publishes Henry VII and third part of Instauratio

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at:1626 text:Dies

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