What time is it in sonnets?  England's First Sonneteers/Teachers of Sonnet Writing (1503-1557--"Wyatt to Tottel" and Beyond)

1503 Wyatt born--------------------------------------------------------1542 Wyatt dies

                        1517 Surrey born-----------------------------------------------1547 Surrey dies

                                                                                                                                         1557 "Tottel's Miscellany" (pub. Wyatt and Surey)

                                                                                                                               1552 Edmund Spenser born (sonnets/"Epi" pub. 1595, †1599)

                                                                                                                                1553 Elizabeth Tudor born (†1603, poems pub. 1589, 1823)

                                                                                                                                    1554 Sir Philip Sidney born (†1586, pub. 1591)

                                                                                                                                                              1564 William Shakespeare born (pub. 1609 †1616)