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1564
William Shakespeare is born to parents John Shakespeare and Mary Arden in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire.
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1582
Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway, the daughter of a local farmer, who is eight years his senior.
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1583
William and Anne welcome their first child, Susanna, only six months after their wedding.
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1593
Shakespeare’s first poem is published in London – Venus and Adonis.
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1594
Records of Shakespeare’s first plays begin to appear. He joins other playwrights to form a new theatre company under the patronage of Lord Chamberlain. They are known as Lord Chamberlain’s Men.
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1597
Shakespeare buys a second home called New Place in Stratford. He is starting to become wealthy from his work and New Place is the second biggest house in Stratford.
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1602
Shakespeare buys a place in London’s Silver Street – the location in which the Barbican Centre now stands. It was here where he wrote many of his great plays such as Hamlet and Macbeth.
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1603
King James I comes to the English throne and grants royal patronage to Shakespeare’s acting company who then came to be known as the King’s Men.
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1609
The King’s Men acquire an indoor theatre – the Blackfriars.
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1616
Shakespeare spends the last few years of his life at New Place before dying in 1616, aged 52.
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