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Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway in Worchester, in Canterbury.
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For the seven years following the birth of his twins, WIlliam disappears from all records, finally turning up again in London in 1592.
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Shakespeare earned a living as actor and a playwright in London and possibly produced several plays.
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Death of Robert Greene author of Groatsworth of Wit in which he complains about Shakespeare as an "upstart crow"
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Plague closed theaters for about two years, Shakespeare turned to writing book-length narrative poetry.
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John Shakespeare, faher of Shakespeare is Granted a Coat of Arms.
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Shakespeare published 15 of 37 plays attributed to him.
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William and his business partners built their own theater that they called the Globe.
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Queen Elizabeth I dies and James the VI of Scotland becomes the new Monarch in England as king James I
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A cannon fire set fire to the thatch of the Globe and burned it to the ground.
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Shakespeare died at the age of 52 and was buried in the same place that he was baptized at as a baby.