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Queen Elizabeth I ruled England during Shakespeare's time. When William Shakespeare was born, Queen Elizabeth had been on the throne for six years.
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William Shakespeare was born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, a market town.
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William Shakespeare was baptized on April 26th,1564 at the Holy Trinity Church.
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William Shakespeare attends the King's New School, which is a grammar school in Stratford attended by the sons of civil servants like his father.
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William Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway on November 28, 1582.
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Only six months after Anne and William's wedding, their first child, Susanna, I born and baptized on May 26,1583.
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Anne Hathaway gives birth to twins, a son named Hamnet and a daughter, Judith.
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William Shakespeare writes his first play, Henry VI, Part One.
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London Theaters have to close their doors for two years due to the outbreak of the plague that killed over 33,000 people in London in January 1593.
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In the spring of 1594, the theaters finally open back up from the plague.
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On August 11, 1596, Hamnet of age 11 dies of unknown causes.
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In May 1597, Shakespeare moves to New Place which was the second largest house in Stratford.
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One of Shakespeare's most popular plays, Romeo and Juliet, was written in about 1594-1596 but it was published in 1597.
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The Chamberlain's Men build the Globe which was a wooden theater in London. Several of Shakespeare's plays were performed for the first time there.
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Shakespeare's Hamlet around the time of his father's death. Many people believe that was what motivated him to do so.
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When Queen Elizabeth dies, King James I succeeds to the throne. King James came to power when she died in 1603 until he died in 1625.
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The publisher, Thomas Thorpe, printed a collection of 154 of Shakespeare's sonnets.
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Shakespeare leaves London to return to Stratford, where his wife and married daughters currently lived.
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Shakespeare writes his last plays such as Henry VIII and Two Noble Kinsmen. However, The Globe catches fire during a performance of Henry VIII and burns to the ground.
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While suffering an unknown illness, William Shakespeare Dies on his 52nd birthday on April 23rd, 1616.
