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Shakespeare Biographical Timeline A fact sheet on the important dates in Shakespeare's life 1550 William Shakespeare's father, John Shakespeare moves to Stratford on Avon to start a glove-making business. 1556 John Shakespeare buys house on Henley Street. 1557 John Shakespeare marrys Mary Arden, daughter of his father's landlord. 1558 Elizabeth I becomes Queen of England on November 17th on the death of her half-sister Queen Mary I. 1564 William Shakespeare, son of John and Mary Shakespeare, baptized on April 26th at Holy Trinity Church in Stratford on Avon. 1575 Queen Elizabeth visits Kenilworth in the summer for her birthday celebrations held by the Earl of Leicester. 1576 James Burbage opens the Theatre in London. 1582 Bishop of Winchester on 28th November grants a license for the marriage of William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway, daughter of a local yeoman. 1583 Daughter Susanna baptised on 26th May at Holy Trinity Church. 1585 Twins Judith and Hamnet baptised on 2nd February at Holy Trinity Church. 1589 Henry VI Part 1 written by William Shakespeare. 1592 First mention of Shakespeare as a playwright when Robert Greene writes 'there is an upstart crow...in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country...' in his Greene's Groatsworth of Wit Bought with a Million of Repentance. 1593 Christopher Marlowe is killed on 30th May in a tavern brawl in Deptford. Venus and Adonis is published. 1594 Shakespeare appears with Richard Burbage as a member of the Lord Chamberlain's Men before Queen Elizabeth. 1596 Son Hamnet dies at age of 11 and is buried on 11th August. 1597 Shakespeare buys New Place in Stratford for £60. 1598 Francis Meres publishes Palladis, Tamia, Wit's Treasury which attests to the ascendancy of Shakespeare - 'As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latines, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage...' 1599 The Globe Theatre opens at Bankside in London. 1601 John Shakespeare, William's father dies. 1602 Hamlet is entered in Stationer's Register. William Shakespeare buys 107 acres in Old Stratford for £320. 1603 Queen Elizabeth I dies in March . Her nephew James I ascends to the throne in May and grants a license to the King's Men. 1605 In July William Shakespeare purchases land in Stratford, Old Stratford, Bishopton and Welcombe for £440. 1607 Daughter Susanna marries John Hall, a local physician on June 5th. Shakespeare's youngest brother Edmund dies on December 31st and is buried in St Saviour's Southwark in London. 1608 Elizabeth, daughter of John and Susanna Hall and granddaughter to William Shakespeare is baptised on February 21st. In September Mary Shakespeare, William's mother dies. 1610 William Shakespeare returns to live in Stratford on Avon. 1612 Richard Shakespeare, William's brother dies. 1613 The Globe Theatre burns down during a performance of Henry VIII. 1614 The Two Noble Kinsmen, Shakespeare and Fletcher's last play is written. 1616 Daughter Judith marries Thomas Quiney, a local vintner on February 10th. On the 25th of March William Shakespeare executes his will. William Shakespeare dies on St George's Day the 23rd of April and is buried in the parish church at Stratford on Avon. |
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