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Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, England -
The Eighty-Years' War began -
Shakespeare likely attended grammar school at the King Edward VI School in Stratford -
The Battle of Nagashiro, Japan's first major gun battle, took place in the Mikawa Province -
Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway -
Roanoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina, was settled by the first English colonists in America. -
Titus Andronicus was Shakespeare's first published play. -
Death of Queen Elizabeth I; succession of King James VI -
Shakespeare wrote Macbeth -
King Lear was published -
Johannes Kepler published his Laws of Planetary Motion , which explained the movement of the planets around the sun. -
Shakespeare died at New Place, his home in Stratford-upon-Avon -
The Thirty Years' War began -
All's Well that Ends Well was published