Henry Vaughan Timeline
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Updated: 5 Oct 2018
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- Henry Vaughan and
twin brother Thomas born at
Newton-upon-Usk, BreconshireHenry Vaughan
passes away. He is buried in the
churchyard
of St Bride's, Llansantffraed,
Powys, where he had spent
most of his life.Earliest evidence of
Thomas Vaughan's residence
at Jesus College, Oxford.Dedication of Olor Iscanus
dated, more
than three years before
publication.leaves oxford to study lawReturns to Breconshire as
secretary to judge Lloyd.Henry probably married
(to Catherine Wise) by this
date. He had a son, Thomas,
and three daughters, Lucy,
Frances and Catherine, by his
first marriage.
Poems with the Tenth
Satire of Juvenal
Englished published.First part of Silex
Scintillans published.Olor Iscanus (poems with
four prose translations)
published.The Mount of Olives, or
Solitary Devotions published.Flores Solitudinis published.Hermetical Physic published.
An enlarged edition of
Silex Scintillans published.Henry marries Elizabeth Wise,
younger sister of his first wife.
He had a son,
Henry, and three daughters,
Grisell, Lucy and Rachel,
by his second marriage.The Chemist's Key publishedHenry Vaughan's father, dies in early summer.Thomas Powell's Humane
Industry published,
containing some of
Vaughan's verse tanslations.Thomas, Henry Vaughan's brother, dies
at Albury, near Oxford.Beginning of the surviving correspondence between
Henry Vaughan and John Aubrey, the biographer.Thalia Rediviva, containing poems by both Henry and
Thomas, published.Henry and Elizabeth Vaughan
move to a cottage in
Scethrog to vacate the
house at Newton,
where he was born and
lived for most of his life,
in favour of
Thomas, Henry's son by
his first marriage.
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