1564	William Shakespeare christened on 26 April; accepted date of birth 23 April
	1582	Married Anne Hathaway
	1592	The production in London of Shakespeare's first known play Henry VI, Part 1. Parts 2 and 3 followed in the same year
	1592/3	Richard III
	1592/4	The Comedy of Errors
	1593/4	The Rape of Lucrece, Titus Andronicus, The Taming of the Shrew (the sonnets probably written over this period)
	1594	Love's Labour's Lost
	1594/6	King John
	1595	Richard II
	1595/6	Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream
	1596/7	The Merchant of Venice, Henry IV Part 1, The Merry Wives of Windsor
	1598	Henry IV Part 2
	1598/9	Much Ado About Nothing
	1599	Henry V, As You Like It, Julius Caesar
	1600	Hamlet
	1601/2	Twelfth Night, Troilus and Cressida
	1602/3	All's Well That Ends Well
	1604	Measure For Measure, Othello
	1605	King Lear, Macbeth
	1606/7	Antony and Cleopatra
	1607/8	Coriolanus, Timon of Athens, Pericles
	1609/10	Cymbeline
	1610/11	The Winter's Tale
	1611	The Tempest
	1612/13	Henry VIII. Globe theatre burned down
	1616	Shakespeare's death, aged 52