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DATE
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EVENT |
| 1564 |
Shakespeare born in Stratford-upon-Avon, eldest son of John
Shakespeare and Mary Arden |
| 1568 |
John Shakespeare becomes Bailiff of Stratford |
| 1566 |
Red Lion Playhouse opens |
| 1567 |
Richard Burbage, the greatest tragedian of the age, born |
| 1576 |
The Theatre opens |
| 1577 |
The Curtain, a rival theatre opens; Blackfriars Theatre opens
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| 1582 |
Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway of Shottery |
| 1583 |
Birth of daughter Susanna; the Queen's Company is formed in London |
| 1585 |
Birth of Shakespeare's children: twins, Judith and Hamnet |
| 1586 |
Shakespeare leaves Stratford; Mary Queen of Scots tried for treason
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| 1587 |
Mary Queen of Scots executed; Rose playhouse opens; Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy; Marlowe,Tamburlaine 1 and 2
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| c1591 |
Titus Andronicus, The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew |
| c1592 |
Marlowe; Doctor Faustus; Edward II |
| c1594 |
Shakespeare becomes founding member of Lord Chamberlain's Men |
| c1595 |
Romeo and Juliet; Swan Theatre built |
| 1596 |
Hamnet Shakespeare dies, at age 11 |
| c1599 |
Globe theatre opens; Julius Caesar |
| 1600 |
Fortune Theatre built; Hamlet |
| 1601 |
Shakespeare's father dies |
| 1603 |
Lord Chamberlain's Men become The Kings Men; Queen Elizabeth dies and is succeeded by James I |
| 1605 |
King Lear; Timon of Athens; Othello |
| 1606 |
Macbeth; Antony and Cleopatra |
| c1608 |
Coriolanus; Shakespeare's mother dies |
| 1609 |
Publication of the Sonnets; The Tempest; The Winter's Tale |
| 1610 |
Ben Johnson, The Alchemist |
| 1614 |
Webster, The Duchess of Malfi; Shakespeare probably retires from London to Stratford |
| 1616 |
Shakespeare dies in Stratford; Buried in Holy Trinity Church |
| 1623 |
Publication of the First Folio, the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays; death of Shakespeare's widow, Anne |