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A Brief Chronology of Julius Caesar and of Shakespeare's Life and Work
(Some dates are approximate, especially those of Shakespeare's plays.)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61| 100 BCE | Birth of Gaius Julius Caesar |
| 85 | Birth of Marcus Junius Brutus and of Gaius Cassius Longinus (Cassius) |
| 83 | Birth of Marcus Antonius (Antony) |
| 62 | Birth of Gaius Octavius Thurinus (Octavius) |
| 48 | Caesar's defeat of Pompey at the battle of Pharsalus |
| 45 | Caesar's defeat of Pompey's sons and Roman triumph. Caesar's adoption of Octavius as his heir, renamed Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus |
| 44 | Caesar's assassination on 15 March ("Ides of March") |
| 42 | Brutus's and Cassius' defeat at the battle of Philippi. Their deaths by suicide |
| 31 | Octavian's defeat of Antony at the battle of Actium |
| 30 | Antony's death by suicide |
| 27 | Octavian's title "Augustus" bestowed by the senate |
| 14 CE | Death of Augustus |
| 46-120 | Life of Mestrius Plutarchus (Plutarch) |
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| 1509-47 | Reign of Henry VIII |
| 1534 | Act of Supremacy, declaring Henry VIII head of the Church of England |
| 1547-53 | Reign of Edward VI |
| 1553-58 | Reign of Mary I. Return to Catholicism |
| 1558-1603 | Reign of Elizabeth I |
| 1563 | Adoption of the Thirty-Nine Articles |
| 1564 | William Shakespeare born April 23 |
| 1569 | Northern Catholic rebellion suppressed |
| 1576 | James Burbage builds The Theatre |
| 1578 | John Lyly, Euphues |
| 1579 | Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calendar; Sir Thomas North, Plutarch's Lives |
| 1582 | Shakespeare's marriage to Anne Hathaway, November |
| 1583 | Birth of Susanna, May 26 |
| 1583-84 | Plots against Elizabeth on behalf of Mary Queen of Scots |
| 1584 | John Lyly, Galatea |
| 1585 | Births of Shakespeare's son Hamnet and his twin sister Judith, February 2. |
| Earl of Leicester sent to aid the Dutch against the Spanish | |
| 1587 | Execution of Mary Queen of Scots February 8 |
| 1588 | At some point, Shakespeare moves to London; family remains in Stratford. War with Spain. The Spanish Armada fleet destroyed in July |
| 1588-94 | Shakespeare writes the early comedies and histories and the early tragedy Titus Andronicus |
| 1590 | Thomas Lodge,Rosalynde; Philip Sidney, Arcadia; Spenser, Faerie Queene, Books 1-3 |
| 1592 | Shakespeare attacked in print by Robert Greene |
| 1593 | Venus and Adonis |
| 1593-1603 | The Sonnets |
| 1594 | Shakespeare joins the Lord Chamberlain's Men; The Rape of Lucrece |
| 1594-5 | A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard II, Romeo and Juliet |
| 1596-8 | The Merchant of Venice, Henry IV Parts I and II |
| 1597 | Earl of Essex sent to Ireland to put down a rebellion led by the Earl of Tyrone; George Chapman, An Humorous Day's Mirth |
| 1598 | Jonson, Every Man in His Humour |
| 1598-9 | Much Ado About Nothing, The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| 1599 | Shakespeare's company moves to the Globe. As You Like It, Henry V, Julius Caesar |
| Prohibition and public burning of satires | |
| 1600-02 | Twelfth Night, Troilus and Cressida, Hamlet, All's Well That Ends Well |
| 1601 | Shakespeare's father dies |
| Essex's abortive rebellion and his execution; T. Dekker, Satiromastix; Jonson, Poetaster; the "Poet's War" | |
| 1603 | Shakespeare's company the Chamberlain's Men becomes the King's Men |
| Death of Elizabeth I; coronation of James I, March 24 | |
| 1603-4 | Measure for Measure, Othello |
| 1604 | James's confrontation of the Puritans at the Hampton Court Conference. Peace with Spain. |
| 1605 | The Gunpowder Plot foiled November 5 |
| 1605-6 | King Lear |
| 1606-7 | Macbeth, Timon of Athens, Antony and Cleopatra, Pericles |
| 1608 | Coriolanus |
| 1609-11 | Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest |
| 1613-14 | Henry VIII, The Two Noble Kinsmen |
| Shakespeare in retirement,living in Stratford. Globe burns | |
| 1616 | Death of Shakespeare, April 23 |