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A Hamlet timeline - chronicle of events
Claudius - planning my foul murder
King Hamlet's funeral - where was Hamlet?
Gertrude & Claudius - adultery or not?
Horatio - Hamlet's friend?
Horatio - is he passion's slave?
Polonius - the evil that men do
Ophelia's love? - did she love Hamlet?
Ophelia closetted - Polonius on love
O help xxx ....... - Olivier's version
Ophelia's change - is Hamlet suspicious?
Is Hamlet mad? - Polonius's opinion
Hamlet kills Polonius - stabs the "Voice"
Laertes on Ophelia - madness & death
Ophelia's death - a recipe
Hamlet's age - digging up the past
Yorick - something rotting in Denmark
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Hamlet — Timeline
| Date | Events and involvement | Simultaneous events | Day |
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| Dec 15 | Anniversary of defeat of Norway | Hamlet's 29th birthday
| -90 |
| Mar 15 | King Hamlet dies | | 0
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| Mar 16 | Claudius made regent | elected king soon after | 1 |
| Mar 30 | | Horatio returns | 15
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| Mar 31 | King Hamlet's funeral | | 16
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| Apr 15 | Claudius and Gertrude marry | | 31
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| Apr 29 | | Laertes returns | 45
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| Apr 30 | Claudius's Coronation | | 46
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| May 7 | | Hamlet returns | 53
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| May 14/15 Midnight - {Play starts} |
Horatio - platform | 60 |
| May 15 | Voltimand, Laertes leave - Ophelia restricted | Hamlet - platform
- Ghost | 61 |
| July 13 | Lamord's visit - reports Laertes's fencing | | 120 |
| July 14 | Reynaldo - R & G - Voltimand returns | Hamlet goes to
Ophelia | 121 |
| July 15 | Nunnery - Mousetrap - Polonius killed | Hamlet, R & G leave
| 122 |
| July 16 | Polonius buried | Fortinbras - Hamlet - captain | 123 |
| July 17 | Ophelia writes to Laertes | Hamlet captured by pirates | 124
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| July 18 | letter goes | | 125 |
| July 30 | | R & G die in England | 137
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| Aug 11 | letter arrives | | 149
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| Aug 12 | letter delivered | | 150
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| Aug 13 | Laertes - awaits a ship | | 151
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| Aug 14 | Laertes leaves France | | 152
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| Sep 10 | Laertes arrives in Denmark | | 179
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| Sep 11 | Laertes raises an army | | 180
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| Sep 13 | Claudius - Laertes - Ophelia mad - dies | Sailors - Hamlet's letters
| 182 |
| Sep 14 | Hamlet returns | Yorick - Ophelia buried | 183 |
| Sep 15 | {Play ends} | Fencing match - Hamlet dies
| 184 |
| Dec 15 | | Hamlet's 30th birthday | 275
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