Scholars point to a poem written circa 1620 by a student at Oxford, William Basse, that mentioned the author Shakespeare died in 1616, which is the year Shakespeare deceased and not Edward de Vere.

Year 1616 ( MDCXVI ) was a leap year starting on Friday ( link will display full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Monday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.

It was not until 1616, the year of Shakespeare's death, that Ben Jonson defied convention by issuing a folio collection of his own plays and poems.

The following year ( 1616 ), the Muscovy Company again hired Bylot to continue to search for the Northwest Passage.

In 1612, Edward Denny gave him the curacy of Waltham-Holy-Cross, Essex, and, in the same year, he received the degree of D. D .. Later he received the prebend of Willenhall in the collegiate church of Wolverhampton, and, in 1616, he accompanied James Hay, Lord Doncaster to France, where he was sent to congratulate Louis XIII on his marriage, but Hall was compelled by illness to return.

In the same year as his entry into the guild, 1616, he married his teacher's eldest daughter, Anna Catharina van Noort, with whom he had three children.

The year 1616 in literature involved some significant events.

In the year 1616.

* Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland ( Annála Ríoghachta Éireann ) by the Four Masters, from the earliest period to the year 1616, compiled during the period 1632-1636 by Brother Michael O ’ Clery, translated and edited by John O ' Donovan in 1856, and re-published in 1998 by De Burca, Dublin ( Volume VI, page 2279 ).

Roughly one year later on June 1, 1616, Tokugawa Ieyasu, the third and last of the great unifiers, died at the age of 75, leaving the shogunate to his descendants.

A second edition appeared in 1615, and in 1616 he published an edition in Latin with a dedication to King James, who in the following year conferred upon him the bishopric of Hereford.

The year 1616 in science and technology involved some significant events.

* Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland ( Annála Ríoghachta Éireann ) by the Four Masters, from the earliest period to the year 1616, compiled during the period 1632-1636 by Brother Michael O ’ Clery, translated and edited by John O ' Donovan in 1856, and re-published in 1998 by De Burca, Dublin.

He succeeded his father in that office in 1616, and in the following year attended the assembly of notables at Rouen convoked by the young Louis XIII.

The English title was created in 1616 for Thomas Egerton, 1st Baron Ellesmere ; however, he died a year later and the viscountcy merged with the earldom of Bridgewater, which had been meant for Egerton, but he died before he could receive it.

1616, signed by President Ferdinand Marcos on April 10 of that year.

The following year, 1616, the English, with a fleet of ten ships, occupied all the major harbors, appropriated the Dutch hut, and made a rich haul, while the Dutch, preoccupied with Jan Mayen, only sent four ships to Spitsbergen, which " kept together in odd places ... and made a poor voyage.

Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters, from the earliest period to the year 1616.

In 1616 he resigned the archdeaconry of Surrey and later that year he became Bishop of Bath and Wells.

Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters, from the earliest period to the year 1616.

In the year 1616, the year before his appointment as agent of the Leiden ( Leyden ) Church, Robert Cushman had three family losses.

* Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland ( Annála Ríoghachta Éireann ) by the Four Masters, from the earliest period to the year 1616, compiled during the period 1632-1636 by Brother Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, translated and edited by John O ' Donovan in 1856, and re-published in 1998 by De Burca, Dublin.

Sobran notes that the cypress tree was a symbol of mourning and says that Barksted was specifically writing of Shakespeare in the past tense (" His song was worthy ") — after Oxford's death in 1604, but prior to Shakespeare's death in 1616.

Joseph Sobran questions why Shakespeare ( who lived until 1616 ) failed to publish a corrected and authorized edition if they are fiction, as well as why they fail to match Shakespeare's life story if they are autobiographic.

Various evidence indicates that the extant text of Shakespeare's Macbeth was partly adapted by Middleton in 1616, using passages from The Witch.

The most important of these was that the productions must be traditional interpretations of the plays set in either Shakespeare's time ( 1564 to 1616 ) or in the period of the events depicted ( such as ancient Rome for Julius Caesar or c1400 for Richard II ).

In 1616, after Shakespeare's death, Fletcher appears to have entered into an exclusive arrangement with the King's Men similar to Shakespeare's.

Though Oxford died in 1604 before approximately 12 of the plays were written according to the generally-accepted chronology, Oxfordians say that regular publication of new, " newly augmented ", and " corrected " Shakespeare plays stopped with Oxford's death in 1604, and they interpret certain written references to Shakespeare between 1604 and 1616 to mean that the writer was dead.

Ieyasu seized power in 1600, received appointment as shogun in 1603, abdicated from office in 1605, but remained in power until his death in 1616.

* The Queen's House, Greenwich, ( 1616 – 1619 ) work suspended on the death of Anne of Denmark completed ( 1630 – 1635 ) for Henrietta Maria of France

He was not as acute a businessman as either Alleyn or Shakespeare ; at his death he was said to have left his widow " better than £ 300 " in land — a respectable estate but far less than Alleyn's substantial wealth, and less than the net worth of Shakespeare at his death in 1616.

After Crooke's death in 1598 Roger Fenton served as preacher, until his replacement by Richard Sibbes, later Master of Catherine Hall, Cambridge, in 1616.

A sermon pronounced before Philip III at Salamanca in 1605 brought Paravicino into notice ; he rose to high posts in his order, was entrusted with important foreign missions, became royal preacher in 1616, and on the death of Philip III in 1621 delivered a famous funeral oration which was the subject of acute controversy.

After Philip Henslowe's death in 1616 Massinger and Fletcher began to write for the King's Men.

Ieyasu retained significant power until his death in 1616 ; but Hidetada nevertheless assumed a role as formal head of the bakufu bureaucracy.

In 1615, on the death of George Lloyd, the king nominated him bishop of Chester ; his consecration was delayed till 7 July 1616.

He had no sons and on his death in 1616 the baronies of Talbot, Strange of Blackmere and Furnivall fell into abeyance between his three daughters.

In Whitaker's will of 1610, and proved following his death in 1616, Whitaker noted that he owed " Christopher Levite, a linen draper of the city of York " just over £ 5.

Tyrone ignored all these realities, remained in Italy, and persisted with his invasion plan until his death in exile in 1616.

After Nicolls ' sudden death in 1616, Dudley took a position with Theophilus Clinton, 4th Earl of Lincoln, serving as a steward responsible for managing some of the earl's estates.

On the death of the seventh earl in 1616, the barony fell into abeyance.

Even William Shakespeare, buried at Stratford-upon-Avon in 1616, was not honoured with a monument until 1740 when one designed by William Kent was constructed in Poets ' Corner ( though shortly after his death William Basse had suggested Shakepeare should be buried there.

* Hugh O ' Neill, Earl of Tyrone, (- 1616 ) styled Baron Dungannon 1562-1585, never de jure: before his brother's death, he was not heir apparent, for his brother could have married and had sons ; after his brother's death, he was de jure Earl of Tyrone, but not Baron Dugannon by the limitation.

He was knighted in 1616, and after his brother's death in 1625 was in his memory ennobled as Baron Chichester, of Belfast and Viscount Chichester, of Carrickfergus

He traveled to London with his parents in 1616, and remained there, after the death of his mother, in the care of his appointed Guardian, Sir Lewis Stukley, and later his father's brother, Henry Rolfe ..

Despite his death, they remained a most significant threat: in 1616 they captured Kursk and defeated Russian forces at Bolkhov, in 1617 relieved Smolensk from a Muscovite siege-the invading troops retreated to Biała as soon as they received news that the Lisowczycy, then under the command of Stanisław Czapliński, were in the neighbourhood.