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Elizabeth the 1st ruled over England and Ireland from 1558 to 1603. She was the queen most of Shakespeare's life.
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William Shakespeare is born in Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom. He was born on April 23, 1564.
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William Shakespeare was baptized three days after his birth, on April 26, 1564.
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Little is known about Shakespeare's life before 1592, but the school he first went to in Stratford was call "Kings new school". It was a grammar school and boys usually started going at the age of five. His years before 1592, are known as "The lost years".
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William's family was prosperous as his family was a glove-maker and wool trader. He also eventually became Baliff of Stratford. In his childhood he attended school and learned to read, speak, and write Latin. Unfortunately he left school at the age 15.
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William Shakespeare is married to his bride, Anne Hathaway, on November 28, 1582.
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William Shakespeare and his wife had their first child together, Suzanna. Suzanna was born on May 26, 1583.
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William Shakespeare and his wife have twins, Hamnet and Judith, in January 1585.
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Shakespeare wrote his first play Henry VI, Part One around this time.
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Shakespeare gets critiqued and shamed by a fellow playwright, Robert Greene, who called him a upstart crow who does not belong. Now it is known that Shakespeare became so successful to make all of them jealous.
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The scary bubonic plague breaks out and the London theaters eventually have to close. Unfortunately about 5% of the cities population parishes. Alongside this plague and the sudden closing of the London theaters, Shakespeare uses this time to write more poetry.
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In 1594, the London theaters open back up to the public. Shakespeare's troupe, the Chamberlains Men becomes very popular over the years again in London.
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William and his wife bury their only son, Hamnet. He died at the age of 11 of unknown causes.
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The Chamberlains Men build the First Globe, made of wood. Many of Shakespeare's most famous plays were performed in this place.
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James the 1st ruled from Elizabeth the 1st death in 1603, until his death in 1625. He ruled the remaining years of Shakepeare's life.
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After many years in London, Shakespeare finally returns back to Stratford in about 1611-1613 where his wife and daughters live.
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Shakespeare composed his final plays in the remaining years of his life. Some of them were: Henry VII, Two Noble Kinsmen, Cardenio, and more.
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William Shakespeare dies from an unknown illness on April 23,1616. He was 52 years old.
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Buried in Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon. Same church that he was baptized in.
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John Heminge and Henry Condell, Shakespeare's friends of the King's Men, collected 36 of their friends plays and published them together in a volume now known as the First Folio.
