Macbeth Timeline

witches meeting

Jan 1, 1414

(Line 10-12)"Act 1 Scene 1
all - paddock calls;-anon. fair is foul and foul is fair, hover through the fog and filthy air."
the witches are going to meet with Macbeth and Banquo and because of this meeting they end up putting Macbeth in a dangerous path

Macbeth

Period: Jan 1, 1414 to Jan 21, 1414

Macbeth receives the thane of cawdor title

Jan 2, 1414

(act 1 scene 2 L 77)"what he hath lost noble macbeth hath won."

witches prophecy

Jan 3, 1414

(Act 1 Scene 3 L-53) "all hail, macbeth! that shalt be king hereafter." this prophecy leads macbeth to think he will be a great king and the thane of Cawdor.

king duncan names his heir

Jan 4, 1414

(act 1 scene 4 L 44-45)"our eldest, Malcolm,whom we name hereafter the prince of Cumberland."

king duncans death

Jan 5, 1414

(act 2 scene 2 Line 54-56) "Macbeth - still it cried, "sleep no more!" to all the house:"Glamis hath murder'd sleep:and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more: Macbeth shall sleep no more!" this message Macbeth received from the ghost signifies Macbeth slow descent into madness.

macbeth is crowned king

Jan 6, 1414

(act 2 scene 4 L 40-41)"he is already named, and gone to scone to be invested."

storms and major weather events with animals change severely

Jan 7, 1414

(act 2 scene 4 L 7-9) "By the clock ’tis day,
And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp.
Is ’t night’s predominance or the day’s shame."
Ross and an old man are conversing about how severely the world is reacting with Duncans death such as owls eating eagle or horses eating each other.

macbeth hires murderers

Jan 8, 1414

(Act 3 scene 2 L 128-130)"So is he mine; and in such bloody distance
That every minute of his being thrusts
Against my near’st of life." this is a discussion between Macbeth and the first two murderers he hires to kill Banquo and Fleance.

Banquo is murdered

Jan 9, 1414

(Act 3 Scene 3 L 25-26) "O treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!
Thou may ’st revenge. O slave!" in this scene Banquo is murdered by the murderers Macbeth had sent to kill him and his son Fleance, but Fleance escapes.

Macbeth is seeing Banquos ghost

Jan 10, 1414

(Act 3 scene 4 L-83) "Prithee, see there! Behold! Look! Lo! How say you?" Macbeth is having another vision before him because of lack of sleep and is now disturbing his guests with worry for him.

macbeth gets three new prophecies

Jan 11, 1414

macbeth barges in on the witches to make them give another prophecy while doing so he insults them and they give him false hope of living without being killed

the witches meet with hecate

Jan 13, 1414

(act 3 scene 5 L 1-4)"why how now hecate?you look angerly."

macduff goes to england to get malcolms help

Jan 14, 1414

malcolm and macduff persuade the king of England to help

Jan 15, 1414

macbeth makes an enemy out of macduff

Jan 16, 1414

lady macbeth has gone insane

Jan 17, 1414

birnam wood marches

Jan 18, 1414

macbeth is killed by macduff

Jan 19, 1414

macduff gains the earl title

Jan 20, 1414

peace is restored to scotland

Jan 21, 1414