Timeline: shakespeare | Timetoast

Period: Jan 1, 1577 to Jan 2, 1580

sir francis circumnavigation of the world

5 vessels only one returnes but has gold and other vauable idems http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRq2BfhjLJXi2nuHkrGIOvY6oJo9QV3yNnk_eZt4zet3njLZyhLOA
Jan 1, 1584

sir walter raleigh's first expedition to roanoke

english colonist try to make a good report with the native americans and the colonist were unsuccess full
Period: Jan 1, 1599 to Jan 1, 1606

Macbeth was written

http://www.brunswick.k12.me.us/hdwyer/files/2012/05/macbeth.jpg
this is shakespears shortest tragety
Nov 5, 1605

the gunpowder plot

failed assassination attempt on king james the first
Sep 6, 1642

theaters close

theaters are shut down by the puritans and acting is banned