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Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon.
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This is the time frame Queen Elizabeth I ruled during Shakespeare's life.
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Shakespeare was baptized in the Holy Trinity Church.
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Shakespeare leaves the school, where he was learning Latin, at age 15.
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Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway.
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Shakespeare's first child, Suzanna, was born.
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Shakespeare also had 2 twins named Hamnet and Judith.
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Shakespeare left for London this year.
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The bubonic plague caused the theater to close.
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The theater opens again after the plague passed.
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Hamnet dies at age 11 from unknown reasons.
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Shakespeare buries his only son, Hamnet at age 11, of unknown causes.
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The Chamberlain's Men built the Globe, out of wood, in London. Many of Shakespeare's most famous plays where preformed here.
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This is the time frame King James ruled during Shakespeare's life.
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Publisher Thomas Thorpe printed a collection of 154 of Shakespeare's sonnets.
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He composes the last of his plays published, and they are preformed at the Globe.
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A staged cannon fire accidentally set the stage on fire.
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Shakespeare returns to Stratford.
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Caused by an unknown illness, Shakespeare passes away on his 52nd birthday.
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Shakespeare was buried at the same church he was baptized in, the Holy Trinity Church in Stratford.