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Shakespeare

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  • Apr 23, 1564

    Shakespeare's Birth

    No doubt Shakespeare's true birthday will remain a mystery forever. But the assumption that the Bard was born on the same day of the month that he died lends an exciting esoteric highlight to the otherwise mundane details of Shakespeare's life. (Shakespeare)
  • Apr 26, 1564

    Shakespeare got Christened

    William Shakespeare is christened at Holy Trinity Church in Stratford.
  • Jan 1, 1568

    Spanish invaded the Netherlands

    This became a great problem for the English because Elizabeth, as a Protestant monarch felt bound to help the Dutch. It was also politically expedient to stop the Spanish army from taking over the Netherlands because from here, it would be easy for them to invade England. (British Library)
  • Jan 1, 1579

    Shakespeare Graduated from Grammar School

    There are no specific records relating to the education of William Shakespeare or his attendance at school but reasonable assumptions can be made based on the information that is available. (Literary Genius)
  • Jan 1, 1582

    The Julian Calendar was switched over to the Gregorian Calendar

    The Gregorian Calendar, also known as the “Western Calendar” or “Christian Calendar”, is the most widely accepted calendar around the world today. Its predecessor, the Julian Calendar, was replaced because it did not correctly reflect the tropical year or solar year marked by Earth's revolution around the Sun. To get back in step with astronomical reality, a number of days were dropped in the new calendar, creating irregular months with only 18 days and odd dates like February 30. (Time & Date)

  • Married Anne Hathaway

    Hathaway would have often visited the town and would have therefore had the opportunity to meet William Shakespeare. At this time Anne would have been 26 and William 18. A considerable age difference, with William Shakespeare still under the age of consent (21). (Shakespeare)

  • Shakespeare’s Daughter Judith Born

    Shakespeare's younger daughter Judith was baptised 2 February, 1585, married 10 February, 1616 and buried 9 February, 1662. (Shakespreare Solved)

  • Lost Years

    We know very little about Shakespeare's life during two major spans of time, commonly referred to as the "lost years": 1578-82 and 1585-92. The first period covers the time after Shakespeare left grammar school, until his marriage to Anne Hathaway in November of 1582. The second period covers the seven years of Shakespeare's life in which he must have been perfecting his dramatic skills and collecting sources for the plots of his plays. (Shakespeare Online)

  • Twins Born, Judith & Hamnet

    In 1585 Anne and William's twins, Hamnet and Judith Shakespeare, were born. The baptism of Hamnet and Judith Shakespeare took place in Stratford Parish Church on February 2nd 1585.The twins were named after two very close friends of William and Anne, the baker Hamnet Sadler and his wife, Judith. These were two of the three legitimate children of the Bard. (Shakespeare)

  • Microscope Invented

    For millennia, the smallest thing humans could see was about as wide as a human hair. When the microscope was invented around 1590, suddenly we saw a new world of living things in our water, in our food and under our nose. But it's unclear who invented the microscope. Some historians say it was Hans Lippershey, most famous for filing the first patent for a telescope. (Live Science)

  • Shakespeare Joined an Acting Company

    The Lord Chamberlains Men was the name of the acting company that William Shakespeare was a part of in the late 1500's. After that he was part of an acting company called, The Kings Men. The second acting company was the same company it just had a different name. (Ask)

  • Sir Walter Raleigh Executed

    After Elizabeth died in 1603, Raleigh was implicated as a foe of King James I and imprisoned with a death sentence. The death sentence was later commuted, and in 1616 Raleigh was freed to lead an expedition to the New World, this time to establish a gold mine in the Orinoco River region of South America. However, the expedition was a failure, and when Raleigh returned to England the death sentence of 1603 was invoked against him. (History)

  • Shakespeare and the Company built the Globe Theater

    To cover the cost of the new playhouse, James Burbage’s sons Cuthbert and Richard, offered some members of the company shares in the building. Shakespeare was one of four actors who bought a share in the Globe. By early 1599 the theatre was up and running and for 14 years it thrived, presenting many of Shakespeare’s greatest plays.

  • Hamlet

    this play is set in Denmark and recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle Claudius, who murdered the King, takes the throne and marries Hamlet’s mother. The play vividly charts the course of real and feigned madness — from overwhelming grief to seething rage — and explores themes of treachery, revenge, incest and moral corruption. “Hamlet” is Shakespeare’s longest play and among the most powerful and influential tragedies in the English language. (Listverse)

  • Virginia Colony Founded

    London Company founded Virginia during the reign of James I (1566-1625). (American History)

  • Galileo's Telescope

    Galileo’s telescope was only an inch-and-a-half in diameter. Although he did not invent the telescope, and may not even have been the first to use it to observe the sky, Galileo’s interpretation of what he observed with his tiny telescope changed people’s view of the universe in two fundamental ways.
    Galileo saw countless stars in the milky-white cloud in the night sky, and realized that the “dome of the fixed stars” is not a dome at all, but has depth. (Cosmology)

  • Shakespeare’s Death

    William Shakespeare died on 23 April 1616, his 52nd birthday (Shakespeare was born on 23 April 1564). In truth, the exact date is not known as only a record of his burial two days later has survived. (About)