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William Shakespeare is born to John and Mary Shakespeare in the town of Stratford Upon Avon.
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Shakespeare attends King Edward IV Grammar School in Stratford-upon-Avon from the age of 7.
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James Burbage builds the first theatre and calls it The Theatre, which Sakespeare will begin acting in when he is grown up.
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At the age of 18, William Shakespeare married the 26-year-old Anne Hathaway.
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Anne and William Shakespeare have a baby girl named Susanna.
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Anne and William Shakespeare have twins, a boy named Hamnet and a girl named Judith.
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The Earl of Southampton begins to pay Shakespeare for his work and this lets William continue his writing.
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All the theatres in London are closed for a year because of the plague.
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William and a group of other actors build The Globe, a new theatre.
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Queen Elizabeth dies and James the FIrst becomes the King of England. Shakespeare's group of actors becomes the King's Men.
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The Globe burns down.
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William Shakespeare falls ill and dies. In his will be leaves his wife his second best bed.
