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Elizabeth I becomes queen at age 25 until she dies in 1603.
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Shakespeare is born.
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Shakespeare is baptized at Holy Trinity Church.
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Shakespeare starts education at a grammar school called King's New School.
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Shakespeare leaves school at 15 years old
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Shakespeare gets married to Anne Hathaway.
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Shakespeare's first child, Susanna, is born.
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Shakespeare goes to London to pursue his career as a playwright.
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Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway give birth to twins. A boy named Hamnet and a daughter named Judith.
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Shakespeare wrote his first play, "Henry VIII Part II".
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Overcrowding causes an outbreak of bubonic plague and theaters are forced to close
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Shakespeare writes a tragic love story called Romeo and Juliet.
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After recovering from a shutdown from an outbreak of bubonic plague, London theaters reopened to the public.
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Shakespeare's only son, Hamnet, dies.
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The Chamberlain's Men built the Globe in London.
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Shakespeare writes a tragedy in five acts called Hamlet
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Publisher Thomas Thorpe publishes about 154 of Shakespeare's Sonnets.
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Shakespeare moves back to Stratford in 1613
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Shakespeare dies.
