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Shakespeare is born April 23, 1564, in Stratford-upon-Avon, a market town.
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Shakespeare started his first school at the age of six.
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Shakespeare learned to read, write, and speak Latin at school. He left school at the age of fifteen.
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Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway.
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Shakespeare and his wife have their first child. Suzanna is born six months after their marriage.
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Around 1585, Shakespeare leaves for London.
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Shakespeare has twins Hamnet and Judith.
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Shakespeare writes his first play, Henry VI
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Robert Greene announces that Shakespeare is an "upstart crow" who does not belong as a dramatist.
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The Theatres are shut down due to an outbreak of the bubonic plague.
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Hamnet Shakespeare dies due to the bubonic plague
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Shakespeare's wealth (gained from his plays and theater works) allows him to buy a new house in Stratford, called New Place.
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The Globe Theater, the site of the first performances of many of Shakespeare's most famous plays, is built by the Chamberlain's Men.
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Queen Elizabeth dies.
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Shakespeare's father dies, which many believe is the event that caused Shakespeare to write the grisly tale of Hamlet.
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Thomas Thorpe publishes 154 of Shakespeare's sonnets.
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Shakespeare returns to Stratford.
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Shakespeare passes away at the age of 51.
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Shakespeare is buried in Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon.
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Henry Condell and John Heminge, two of Shakespeare's friends, publish 36 of his plays in a folio.
