Shakespeare

A brief history of William Shakespeare's life (and the world)

By mrentzi
  • Apr 23, 1564

    1564

    1564
    Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, England
  • 1568

    1568

    1568
    The Eighty-Years' War began
  • 1571

    1571

    1571
    Shakespeare likely attended grammar school at the King Edward VI School in Stratford
  • 1575

    1575

    1575
    The Battle of Nagashiro, Japan's first major gun battle, took place in the Mikawa Province
  • 1582

    1582

    1582
    Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway

  • 1585

    1585
    Roanoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina, was settled by the first English colonists in America.

  • 1594

    1594
    Titus Andronicus was Shakespeare's first published play.

  • 1603

    1603
    Death of Queen Elizabeth I; succession of King James VI

  • 1606

    1606
    Shakespeare wrote Macbeth

  • 1608

    1608
    King Lear was published

  • 1609

    1609
    Johannes Kepler published his Laws of Planetary Motion , which explained the movement of the planets around the sun.

  • 1616

    1616
    Shakespeare died at New Place, his home in Stratford-upon-Avon

  • 1618

    1618
    The Thirty Years' War began

  • 1623

    1623
    All's Well that Ends Well was published