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Elizabeth I was born in to the Tudor dynasty in 1533.
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Elizabeth is two years and eight months old when her mother Anne Boleyn is accused of adultery and beheaded on the orders of Henry VIII.
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She is imprisoned because she begins a series of bloody purges of Protestants.
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Elizabeth becomes queen
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Six months after their marriage, the Shakespeare's first child, Susanna, is born and baptized.
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Around this time, Shakespeare writes Henry VI, Part One—his very first play.
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London theaters are closed due to an outbreak of bubonic plague that eventually kills about five percent of the city's residents. Shakespeare uses the break to write poetry.
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In the spring of 1594, the London theaters reopen to the public.
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Wealthy thanks to his theater work and shrewd investments, Shakespeare buys New Place, the second-largest house in Stratford.
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