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-Shakespeare is born in Stratford upon Avon to local tanner John and Mary
Shakespeare.
-His birthday is unknown but assumed and celebrated today on April the 23rd,

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Shakespeare have begun his formal education.

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Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway,At age 18.

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William and Anne Shakespeare’s  had their first child,Susanna,

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Shakespeare is believed to have left his family in Stratford to join a company of actors
as both playwright and performer, starting his career in theatre.

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Shakespeare is believed by most academics to have written his very first play, Henry VI,
Part One in this year.

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Shakespeare is again believed to have written Henry VI, Part Two and Henry VI, Part III.

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Shakespeare begins to be noticed as a force within London theatre; Robert
Greene’s Groatworth of Wit famously calls Shakespeare an "upstart crow". He attacks Shakespeare
as lacking originality since he borrows ideas from other for his own plays. Academics see this
criticism as proof that Shakespeare was in London at this time.
Theatres in London close because of the plague.

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Shakespeare begins to compose the first of what will amount to a 154 sonnet collection. His
narrative poem Venus and Adonis is his first ever published.

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Shakespeare pen’s Love Labour’s Lost.

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Busy year for Shakespeare as he is thought to have composed Richard II performed that
very same year, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, thought to be composed for a wedding and the
greatest love story of all time, Romeo and Juliet.

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Shakespeare buys the New Place, one of Stratford’s most preeminent homes. This fuels
speculation today by some academics that William was really a successful businessman and not
literature’s celebrated playwright.

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William is thought to have written the play Henry IV, Part Two and Shakespeare’s reputation
as an actor is confirmed his performance in Ben Jonson’s Every Man in his Humor which clearly
lists his name as a principal actor in the London play.

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William writes the play Much Ado About Nothing in this year.

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The Major shareholders of the Lord Chamberlain’s Men lease land from Nicholas Brend, The
Globe theatre opening later that same year. Julius Caesar is performed at the Globe Theatre for the
first known time on September the 21st according to German tourist Thomas Platter’s diary. John
Weever praises Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, The Rape of Lucrece and Venus Adonis in the
poem Ad Guglielmum Shakespeare.

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Shakespeare is thought to have composed arguably his greatest play, Hamlet at this
time.

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Midsummer’s Night is performed at Hampton Court before Queen Elizabeth who dies later
that year. James I originally James VI of Scotland proves to be an enthusiastic patron of the arts
granting The Chamberlain’s Men a patent to perform. In return the Company renames itself The
King’s Men to honour James I and they quickly become a favorite with the new king.
Shakespeare is recorded as performing in Ben Jonson’s Sejanus, Shakespeare’s last recorded

acting performance.

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It is later performed at
King James I Court. Othello is also penned, being performed on November the 1st at Whitehall.

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The King’s Men take on a twenty-one year lease of London’s first permanently enclosed
theatre, the Blackfriars Theatre in this year. Notes on stage directions, suggest The Tempest was
penned with a performance at this theatre in mind.

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Othello is performed at Oxford College by the King’s Men during a summer tour.

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The King’s men perform Othello and Julius Caesar amongst others in this year.
Shakespeare is thought to have written Cardenio, his only lost play during this period and with John
Fletcher as a likely contributor, composes Henry VIII.

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The Globe Theatre burns to the ground. The Two Noble Kinsmen is penned. A 1634 entry
within the Stationer’s Registry confirms that both William Shakespeare and John Fletcher composed
this play.

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William dies on April 23rd, his burial being recorded in the Stratford Holy Church Register
two days later.

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Shakespeare’s wife, Anne Hathaway dies, the same year, and fellow actors John Hemminges
and Henry Condell gather together and publish for the first time, 36 of Shakespeare’s 37 plays in a
collection known as The First Folio.