TIME LINE OF SHAKESPEARE'S LIFE

 

1555-1564/ John and Mary Shakespeare have two daughters who die while they are still babies.

1564/ William Shakespeare is born to John and Mary Shakespeare in the town of Stratford Upon Avon (approximately).

1570/ William begins grammar school (approximately).

1572/ John Shakespeare takes his son,William, to see a play being performed in the town where they live.

1576/ James Burbage builds the first theatre and calls it The Theatre, which Shakespeare will begin acting in when he is grown up.

1582/ William Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway.

1583/ Anne and William Shakespeare have a baby girl named Susanna.

1585/ Anne and William Shakespeare have twins, a boy named Hamnet and a girl named Judith.

1588/ William Shakespeare leaves his wife and children at home in Stratford and travels to London to work as an actor and playwright.

1593/ The Earl of Southampton begins to pay Shakespeare for his work and this lets William continue his writing.

1594/ All the theatres in London are closed for a year because of the plague.

1599/ William and a group of other actors build The Globe, a new theatre.

1603/ Queen Elizabeth dies and James the First becomes the King of England. Shakespeare's group of actors becomes the King's Men.

1614/ The Globe burns down.

1616/ William Shakespeare retires home to Stratford.

1616/ William Shakespeare falls ill and dies.