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Shakespeare calls his lawyer to revise his will, making some changes that include leaving his "second-best bed" to his wife and £10 to the poor.
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William Shakespeare dies on his 52nd birthday.
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William writes his final plays Henry VIII, Two Noble Kinsmen and a few more
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Shakespeare leaves London and moves back to Stratford, where his wife and married daughters live.
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Publisher Thomas Thorpe prints a collection of 154 of Shakespeare's sonnets.
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Shakespeare's father dies and his patron Earl Southampton is sentenced to death for his role in Essex rebellion. This motivates Shakespeare to write Hamlet around this time.
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William and Anne bury their only son, Hamnet, who dies at the age of 11 of unknown causes.
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In the spring of 1594, the London theaters reopen to the public. Over the next five years Shakespeare's troupe, the Chamberlain's Men, becomes one of the most popular acting groups in London. They accept frequent invitations to perform in the royal court of Queen Elizabeth I.
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London theaters are closed due to a bursting forth of bubonic plague that kills about five percent of the city's residents. Shakespeare uses the break to write poetry.
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In April of 1593, Shakespeare publishes Venus and Adonis, his first long poem. It is dedicated to his patron Henry Wriothesley.
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In 1590 Shakespeare writes his first play, Henry VI, Part One. Also around the same time, William leaves Stratford to begin work as a playwright and actor in London.
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In 1585, Anne gives to birth two twins, daughter Judith and son Hamnet.
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In 1583, six months after their marriage, the Shakespeare's first child, Susanna, is born and baptized.
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Shakespeare married when he was 18 years. He married in 1582 with Anne Hathaway that was 26 years.
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Shakespeare enters in King's New School, an excellent grammar school in Stratford.
Boys normally enter in the school around five years old, but since no official records survive, its impossible to know exactly when Shakespeare starts his education. In spite of was around 1592. -
William Shakespeare was born in 1564 in Warwickshire, town of Statford-upon-Avon. His parents were John and Mary Arden Shakespeare.
He was the third of eight brothers.
It's impossible to know the day of his born but we knows that his baptism was the 26th of April of 1564.
