1503 AD – Nostradamus was born
1510 AD – Guillaume Postel, French mathematician, Kabbalist, and mystic, was born
1510 AD – Agrippa’s De Occulta philosophia was finished
1515 AD – Johan Weyer was born
1516 AD – Johannes Trithemius died
1517 AD – Reuchlin’s De arte cabalistica was published
1517 AD – Martin Luther posted his theses
1522 AD – Johann Reuchlin died
1525 AD – Giorgi’s De harmonia mundi was published
1527 AD – John Dee was born
1531 AD – Three Books of Occult Philosophy by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa was published in Paris
1533 AD – Isaak Luria, Jewish Kabbalist, was born in Jerusalem
1533 AD – Agrippa’s De Occulta philosopha was published
1535 AD – Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim died
1535 AD – Giambattista della Porta was born in Naples. Author of Magia naturalis (Natural Magic)
1540 AD – Francesco Giorgi died
1540 AD – Faust died
1541 AD – Paracelsus died
1542 AD – the Inquisition was established in Rome
1546 AD – Martin Luther died
1548 AD – Giordano Bruno was born
1574 AD – Robert Fludd was born?
1552 AD – Simon Forman was born
1552 AD – Guillaume Postel published a Latin translation of the Sefer Yetzirah
1554 AD – the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) was founded
1555 AD – Edward Kelley was born
1564 AD – Dee wrote the Hermetic work Monas Hieroglyphica
1564 AD – Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland, was born
1566 AD – Nostradamus died
1566 AD – Michael Maier, physician, alchemist, and philosopher, was born in Rensburg, Holstein (Germany). He was physician to Emperor Rudolph II.
1575 AD – Jakob Boehme, German religious mystic, was born
1579 AD – Arthur Dee was born
1581 AD – Guillaume Postel died
1582 AD – John Dee and Edward Kelley met
1584 AD – Bruno’s Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast was published
1584 – Reginald Scott publishes The Discoverie of Witchcraft(sic) a book designed in part to counter the activities of persecutionists, but at the same time revealing many conjuring secrets of the day. Magic and witchcraft were still linked, and many copies of Scot’s book were burnt in the early 17th century.
1588 AD – Johann Weyer died
1589 AD – John Dee and Edward Kelley began the Enochian workings
1597 AD – Edward Kelley died
1599 AD – Reginald Scot died
1600 AD – Giordano Bruno was executed
1602 AD – William Lilly was born
1602 AD – Athanasius Kircher was born
1605 AD – Sir Thomas Browne was born
1605 AD – Heinrich Khunrath died
1606 AD – Trithemius’ Steganographia was first published
1609 AD – John Dee died
1611 AD – Simon Forman died
1612 AD – Emperor Rudolph II died
1614 AD – the “first” Rosicrucian tract
1615 AD – Giambattista della Porta died
1617 AD – Elias Ashmole was born
1618 AD – Maier’s Atlanta Fugiens was published
1618 AD – Johann Baptista Grossschedel published Calendarium magicum (The Magical Calendar)
1620 AD – Robert Turner ‘of Holshot’, translator of magical texts, was born
1622 AD – Thomas Vaughan, English Rosicrucian, was born
1622 AD – Michael Maier died
1624 AD – Jakob Boehme died
1626 AD – Olaus Borrichius was born
1632 AD – Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland, died
1636 AD -Christian Knorr von Rosenroth, German mystic and Kabbalist, was born
1637 AD – Robert Fludd died
1643 AD – Sir Isaac Newton was born
1651 AD – Arthur Dee died
1652 AD – Kircher’s Oedipus Aegyptiacus was published
1652 AD – Thomas Vaughan published an English translation (not his own) of the Rosicrucian Fama and Confessio
1666 AD – Thomas Vaughan died
1677 AD – Christian Knorr von Rosenroth published the first volume of Kabbala Denudata
1680 AD – Athanasius Kircher died
1681 AD – William Lilly, astrologer and translator of Trithemius, died
1682 AD – Sir Thomas Browne died
1684 AD – Christian Knorr von Rosenroth published the second volume of Kabbala Denudata
1689 AD – Christian Knorr von Rosenroth died
1688 AD – Emanuel Swedenborg was born
1690 AD – Olaus Borrichius died
1692 AD – Elias Ashmole died
1707 AD – Moses Hayyim Luzzatto, Kabbalistic mystic and Hebrew poet was born
1727 AD – Sir Isaac Newton died
1734 AD – Franz Anton Mesmer was born
1738 AD – Etteilla was born
1747 AD – Moses Hayyim Luzzatto died
1748 AD – Johann Adam Weishaupt was born
1751 AD – Ebenezer Sibly was born
1757 AD – William Blake was born
1772 AD – Emanuel Swedenborg died
1776 AD – Weishaupt formed the “Order of Perfectibilists”, which was later known as the Illuminati
1781 AD – Tarot as book of Thoth, Monde Primitif by Antoine Court de Gbelin 1783 AD – Marie Leveau was born
1784 AD – Antoine Court de G’belin died
1784 AD – Count of St Germain allegedly died
1785 AD – How to Entertain Yourself With the Deck of Cards Called Tarot by Etteilla was published
1791 AD – Etteilla died
1800 AD – Ebenezer Sibly died
1810 AD – Eliphas Lvi, (Alphonse Louis Constant) was born
1815 AD – Franz Anton Mesmer died
1827 AD – William Blake died
1830 AD – Johann Adam Weishaupt died
1831 AD – Helena Blavatsky was born
1832 AD – Henry Steel Olcott, cofounder of the Theosophical Society, was born
1846 AD – Anna Kingsford (Annie Bonus) was born
1847 AD – Annie Besant, author and noted Theosophist was born
1848 AD – William Wynn Westcott was born
1854 AD – Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers was born
1855 AD – Transcendental Magic by Eliphas Levi (pentagram, tarot) was published
1855 AD – Theodor Reuss was born
1856 AD – Le Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie by Eliphas Levi was published
1865 AD – William Butler Yeats was born in Ireland
1865 AD – Papus (Gerard Encausse) was born
1865 AD – Max Heindel (Carl Louis von Grasshoff ) was born
1857 AD – Arthur Edward Waite was born
1861 AD – Rudolf Steiner was born
1875 AD – The Theosophical Society was founded
1875 AD – Aleister Crowley was born
1875 AD – Eliphas Levi, (Alphonse Louis Constant) died
1877 AD – Edgar Cayce was born
1880 AD – Constant Chevillon was born 1881 AD – Marie Leveau died
1886 AD – Austin Osman Spare was born
1888 AD – Anna Kingsford (Annie Bonus) died
1888 AD – Papus’ Trait? El?mentaire de Science Occulte was published
1888 AD – the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was established in London
1889 AD – Mathers’ edition of Key of Solomon was published
1889 AD – Mathers’ edition of Kabbalah Unveiled was published
1890 AD – Dion Fortune was born Violet Mary Firth
1890 AD – W.B.Yeats joined the Golden Dawn
1890 AD – the 1st volume of The Golden Bough, by James Frazer, was published
1890 AD – H.P. Lovecraft was born
1891 AD – Arthur Edward Waite joined the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
1891 AD – Helena Blavatsky died
1897 AD – Levi’s Le Clef des Grandes Mystires was published
1898 AD – Aleister Crowley joined the Golden Dawn (at age 23)
1898 AD – Julius Evola was born
1898 AD – Mathers published The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abra-Melin the Mage
1899 AD – C.G. Leland published Aradia, the Gospel of the Witches
1900 AD – Aleister Crowley was expelled from the Golden Dawn
1901 AD – Manly Palmer Hall was born
1903 AD – the Societas Rosicruciana became the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
1904 AD – the Book of the Law was dictated to Crowley (published?)
1904 AD – Austin Osman Spare exhibited at the annual Royal Academy exhibition in London
1904 AD – Ralph Maxwell Lewis was born
1907 AD – Israel Regardie was born
1907 AD – Henry Steel Olcott, cofounder of the Theosophical Society, died
1909 AD – Franz Bardon was born
1909 AD – The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception by Max Heindel was published
1910 AD – the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot deck was published
1913 AD – The Book of Pleasure by Austin Osman Spare
1913 AD – William G. Gray was born
1916 AD – Papus (Gerard Encausse) was born
1918 AD – Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers died
1919 AD – Dion Fortune joined the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
1919 AD – Max Heindel (Carl Louis von Grasshoff ) died
1923 AD – Timothy Francis Leary was born
1923 AD – HP Lovecraft first mentioned the Necronomicon in “the Hound”
1923 AD – Theodor Reuss died
1925 AD – William Wynn Westcott died
1925 AD – Rudolf Steiner died
1930 AD – Anton Szandor LaVey was born
1933 AD – Annie Besant, author and noted Theosophist died
1937 AD – The Golden Dawn by Israel Regardie was published
1937 AD – H.P. Lovecraft died
1939 AD – The first meeting of FUDOFSI took place in Paris, France
1939 AD – William Butler Yeats died
1942 AD – Arthur Edward Waite died
1944 AD – Constant Chevillon, the head of FUDOFSI, was shot by the Gestapo
1945 AD – Edgar Cayce died
1946 AD – Dion Fortune died
1947 AD – Jack Pasons and L. Ron Hubbord did the Babalon Working
1947 AD – Aleister Crowley died
1951 AD – FUDOSI dissolved after disagreements between its members
1954 AD – Gerald Gardner published early works on Wicca
1956 AD – Initiation into Hermetics by Franz Bardon was published
1956 AD – Austin Osman Spare died
1958 AD – Franz Bardon died
1966 AD – Anton Szandor LaVey founded the Chiurch of Satan
1969 AD – Minutes to Go by Brion Gysin, William S. Burroughs, Sinclair Beiles, Gregory Corso
1969 AD – The Satanic Bible by Anton Levey was published
1972 AD – Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer: Theory and Experiments by John C. Lilly was published
1974 AD – Julius Evola died
1975 AD – Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea was published
1977 AD – Exo-Pyschology by Timothy Leary was published
1977 AD – Cosmic Trigger and Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson was published
1978 AD – Liber Null by Peter Carroll was published
1983 AD – Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti by Maya Deren was published
1985 AD – Israel Regardie died
1987 AD – Ralph Maxwell Lewis died
1988 AD – Modern Magick by Donald Michael Kraig was published
1988 AD – The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho was published
1988 AD – Foucoult’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco was published
1989 AD – Voudon Gnostic Workbook by Michael Bertiaux was published
1990 AD – Manly Palmer Hall died
1995 AD – William G. Gray died
1996 AD – Timothy Francis Leary died
1997 AD – Anton Szandor LaVey died
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