Occult Time Line: A chronology of Occult Events411 AD - Proclus, Neoplatonic philosopher was born 485 AD - Proclus, Neoplatonic philosopher died 1175 AD -Michael Scot was born 1235 AD - Ramon Llull was born 1240 AD - Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia, kabbalahist, was born 1248 AD - Joseph Gikatilla, Spanish Sephardic Kabbalist, was born 1259 AD - Peter de Abano [Pietro d'Abano], Italian physician and philosopher was born 1266 AD - John Duns Scotus, Scottish scholastic philosopher and thrologian, was born 1274 AD - Ramon Llull's vision on Mount Randa 1280 AD - Albertus Magnus died 1294 AD - Roger Bacon died 1308 AD - John Duns Scotus died 1313 AD - According to Max Heindel a Rosicrucian Order was formed in the inner worlds 1314 AD - Jacques de Molay, last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, was burned at the stake in Paris 1315 AD - Ramon Llull died 1316 AD - Peter de Abano died 1323 AD - Joseph Gikatilla died 1433 AD - Marsilio Ficino, Italian philosopher was born 1453 AD - the fall of Constantinople to the Turks caused dispersal and spread of Greek manuscripts and scholarship 1455 AD - The Gutenburg Bible was first printed 1455 AD - Johann Reuchlin was born 1458 AD - The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage dates itself internally to this year 1462 AD - Johannes Trithemius was born 1463 AD - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher and scholar, was born 1466 AD - Francesco Giorgi, Venetian philosopher, was born 1471 AD - Ficino's translation of Corpus Hermeticum was published 1483 AD - Martin Luther was born 1486 AD - The Malleus Maleficarum, a major instrument of witch hunters was published 1486 AD - Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim was born 1486 AD - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola took his theses to Rome 1489 AD - Ficino's Libri de Vita was published 1492 AD - Ferdinand and Isabella expeled Jews from Spain helping to spread Kabbalistic ideas. 1493 AD - Paracelsus was born 1494 AD - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola died 1494 AD - Reuchlin's De verbo mirifico was published 1499 AD - Marsilio Ficino died 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 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 Gébelin 1784 AD - Antoine Court de Gébelin 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 Lévi, (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 Lévi, (Alphonse Louis Constant) died 1877 AD - Edgar Cayce was born 1880 AD - Constant Chevillon was born 1886 AD - Austin Osman Spare was born 1888 AD - Anna Kingsford (Annie Bonus) died 1888 AD - Papus' Traité Elémentaire 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 Mystères 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
2003 AD - The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown was published
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