Virgil

Roman poet (1st century BC)

8 dated entries naming Virgil, drawn from 7 separate years between 169 BCE and 1689 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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2nd century BC

169 BCEQuintus Ennius, Roman epic poet, dramatist, and satirist, the most influential of the early Latin poets – and often called the founder of Roman literature or the father of Roman poetry. His epic Annales, a poem telling the story of Rome from the wanderings of Aeneas to Ennius' own time, remains the national epic until it is later eclipsed by Virgil's Aeneid.source

1st century BC

70 BCEOctober 15 – Virgil, Roman poet (d. 19 BC)source
29 BCEVirgil probably completes the Georgics and begins composition of the Aeneid.source
19 BCEThe Aeneid by the Roman poet Virgil is published after his death. The Aeneid is an epic poem in 12 books that tells the story of the foundation of Rome from the ashes of Troy.source
19 BCESeptember 21 – Virgil, Roman poet (b. 70 BC)source

4th century

400The Vergilius Vaticanus, an illuminated manuscript containing fragments of Virgil's Aeneid and Georgics, is made in Rome.source

16th century

1501Italic type (cut by Francesco Griffo) is first used by Aldus Manutius at the Aldine Press in Venice, in an edition of Virgil.source

17th century

1689The first documented performance of the opera Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell takes place at Josias Priest's girls' school in Chelsea, London, with a libretto based on Virgil's Aeneid.source