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William Shakespeare is born in Stratford-upon-Avon
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Shakespeare begins his education at the King’s Free Grammar School (free place due to his father’s position as an alderman of Stratford-upon-Avon)
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Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway (26 years old) at Temple Grafton
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TRAGEDIES: Macbeth, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra. Lear performed before the King at Whitehall, Christmas 1606
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Shakespeare dies (23 April) at home at New Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, perhaps after drinking with fellow-writers Ben Jonson and Michael Drayton. Buried in Holy Trinity Church.
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