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William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon.
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Shakespeare gets married to Anne Hathaway. Together they have four children.
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William and Anne bury their only son, Hamnet, who dies at the age of 11 of unknown causes.
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The Globe Theatre, a wooden theater in London is built. Many of Shakespeare's most famous plays are performed for the first time here, including Othello and King Lear.
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Shakespeare's fateher dies. His death motivates Shakespeare to write Hamlet. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1vvaQq0HIA]
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Publisher Thomas Thorpe prints a collection of 154 of Shakespeare's sonnets.
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Suffering from an unknown illness, William Shakespeare dies on his 52nd birthday.
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