Campion, Thomas

1567 - Born in London on the 12th of February.

1586 - Entered Gray's Inn to study law.

1595 - He left without having been called to the bar.

1605 - On 10th of February, he received his medical degree from the University of Caen.

1613 - Wrote The Songs of Mourning: Bewailing the Untimely Death of Prince Henry.

1602 - He wrote Observations in the Art of English Poesie.

1607 - He wrote a number of masques, including Lord Hay's Masque.

1615 - Published a book on counterpoint, A New Way of Making Fowre Parts in Counterpoint By a Most Familiar and Infallible Rule.

1620 - Campion died on 1st of March in London, probably of the plague.