1616 ⟶ William Shakespeare's Death

English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.
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🎭 William Shakespeare's Baptism

William Shakespeare baptized 26 April⟶
William Shakespeare's Baptism (1564)
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🎭 William Shakespeare's *Romeo and Juliet* Published

Romeo and Juliet is published.⟶
William Shakespeare's *Romeo and Juliet* Published (1597)
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🎭 William Shakespeare's Death

English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.⟶
William Shakespeare's Death (1616)
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✍️ Publication of Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets by Samuel Johnson

1782: Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets by Samuel Johnson⟶
Publication of Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets by Samuel Johnson (1779)
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✍️ Publication of Lyrical Ballads

Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge⟶
Publication of Lyrical Ballads (1798)
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✍️ Alfred Tennyson Appointed Poet Laureate

Alfred Tennyson is appointed Poet Laureate after the death of William Wordsworth.⟶
Alfred Tennyson Appointed Poet Laureate (1850)
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