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Feb 8, 1563
More plague info
-The plague was not just confined to the towns. Nowhere was safe the same plague outbreak of 1563 claimed 80,000 people in England
-From December 1592 until December 1593 Stow (the Elizabethan archivist) reported 10,675 plague deaths in London, a city of approximately 200,000 people -
Feb 5, 1568
Elizabeth
Becomes first Qween of England -
Feb 5, 1576
King James the First
Future King James 1 is born in Scotland -
Plague
-closes all london theaters
-The black plague killed in 1564 one out of seven of the town's 1,500 inhabitants.
-He lost his sisters Joan, Margaret ( just babies) and Anne (aged 7) to the deadly plague
He also lost his brother Edmund (aged 27)
-In 1563, in London alone, over 20,000 people died of the disease - In 1665 the Great Plague of London again decimated the population of the town which killed 16% of the inhabitants (17,500 out of the population of 93,000) -
Shakespeare
Joins the Lord Chamberlain's men -
Macbeth first proformance
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Shakespeare retires to Strarford
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Shakespeare's wife dies
