Chronology

The following pages present a chronology from 500 B.C.-1643:

• A chronology of the plays
• Significant events before Shakespeare's birth
• 1564: Shakespeare's birth
• 1582: Shakespeare's marriage
• 1593: Shakespeare's first publication
• 1599: the Globe Theatre is built
• 1604: the first tax on tobacco
• 1611: the King James Bible is published
• 1616: Shakespeare's death
• 1623: The First Folio is published