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.

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