Shakespeare wrote it between 1590 and 1596 (no ones really sure)
London Theatres close due to the Bubonic Plague (The Black Death)
The Globe Theatre is built on Bankside
The voyage to Virginia of Sir William Somers was blown off course and shipwrecked in Bermuda. William Strachey, secretary of the colony at Jamestown, Virginia, later sent a letter to England that described the event. The letter is thought by many to have