Nostradamus | Timeline

Michel de Nostredame (depending on the source, 14 or 21 December 1503 – 2 July 1566), usually Latinised as Nostradamus, was a French apothecary and reputed seer who published collections of prophecies that have since become famous worldwide. He is best known for his book Les Propheties, the first edition of which appeared in 1555. Since the publication of this book, which has rarely been out of print since his death, Nostradamus has attracted a following that, along with much of the popular press, credits him with predicting many major world events. Most academic sources maintain that the associations made between world events and Nostradamus's quatrains are largely the result of misinterpretations or mistranslations (sometimes deliberate) or else are so tenuous as to render them useless as evidence of any genuine predictive power. (Wikipedia)

December 14, 1503 - St-Rémy-de-Provence - Michel de Nostredame is born
January(?) 1(?), 1519 - Avignon - 15-year old Nostradamus enters the University of Avignon
December(?) 1(?), 1520 - Avignon - Forced to leave the university due to an outbreak of plague
January(?) 1(?), 1521 - ? - Nostradamus travels the countryside for eight years, researching herbal remedies
January(?) 1(?), 1529 - Montpellier - After some years as an apothecary, Nostradamus enters the University of Montpellier =(START)
April(?) 1(?), 1529 - Montpellier - University officials discover that Nostradamus is an apothecary, and he is expelled
January(?) 1(?), 1531 - Agen (SW France) - Nostradamus is invited by Jules-César Scaliger to go to Agen
January(?) 1(?), 1534 - Agen - After his wife and children die because of the plague, Nostradamus departs again, going across France and possibly Italy
January(?) 1(?), 1539 - Bordeaux - Nostradamus passes through Bordeaux in his travels
January(?) 1(?), 1544 - Marseille - After arriving in Marseille, Nostradamus helps Louis Serre fighting an outbreak of plague
January(?) 1(?), 1547 - Lyon - In Lyon with Philibert Sarrazin, a physician.
November 11, 1547 - Salon-de-Provence - Nostradamus marries Anne Ponsarde and settles in Salon-de-Provence
January(?) 1(?), 1549 - Milan, Italy - Meets a specialist in vegetable alchemy, in Milan
January(?) 1(?), 1555 - Paris - Starts exchanging Medicine for the Occult. Catherine de Medicis summons Nostradamus to the Court, after Reading his prophecies about the King
January(?) 1(?), 1556 - Salon-de-Provence - Acquires a 1/13 sshare of a Canal Project to irrigate Salon-de-Provence and surroundings from with water from River Durance
December 18, 1561 - Marignane - Nostradamus is arrested for some time for not asking for the Bishop's permission to publish.
July 2, 1566 - Salon-de-Provence - Michel de Nostredame dies, after years suffering from gout =(END)