September 1968:
Tupac's mother, 
Afeni Shakur, 
joins the New York
Black Panther
Party at age 22.

April 1969:
Afeni arrested.
While out on bail,
she meets 2 men.
Legs and Billy.

February 1971:
Afeni, pregnant with
Tupac has her bail
revoked and is send
to the Women's House
of Dentention.

June 16, 1971:
Afeni acquitted.
Tupac Amaru Shakur 
is born in New York.

1975-1983:
Tupac's family
shuttles between the
Bronx and Harlem.
At times living in 
shelters.

1983:
Legs moves in.
Tupac claims him
as his father.Legs
introduces Afeni
to crack.

September 1983:
12 year old
Tupac gets enrolled
in a Harlem theater
group.Plays Travis
in A Raisin in 
the Sun.

June 1986:
Shakur's family
moves to Baltimor.
As MC New York,
Tupac writes his 
first rap.

September 1986:
Tupac enrolls at
Baltimore School
for the Arts,
where he studies
ballet and acting.

June 1988:
Tupac's family
moves to Marin
City, California.
Shortly after, 
Tupac moves in 
with a friend
and begins 
selling drugs.

August 1988:
Mutulu Shakur,
Tupac's stepfather,
is sentenced to
60 years in prison
for a 1981 robbery.

1990:
Tupac joins Digital
Underground as a 
roadie/rapper/dancer.
learns his mother
is using crack.

1991:
Tupac makes his
recording debut 
on DU's This
is an E.P. Release.
2Pacalypse Now is 
released.Tupac
files a $10 million
lawsuit against the
Oakland police.

January 17, 1992:
Tupac stars in 
Juice as a troubled
youth named Bishop.
"I am crazy.And 
you know what,
I don't give 
a fuck."

April 11, 1992:
Ronald Ray Howard,
19, shoots a Texas
trooper.Howard's
attorney claims
@Pacalypse Now,
which was in his 
client's tape deck,
incited him to kill.

August 22, 1992:
Tupac has an 
altercation with old 
rivals from Marin 
City. A 6 year old 
is shot in the head.
Tupac's half brother,
Maurice Harding is 
arrested and released
due to lack
of evidence.

September 22, 1992:
Vice president Dan
Quayle, denounces
Tupac and says 
2Pacalypse Now 
"has no place in 
our society."

February 1, 1993:
Stictly 4 my
N.I.G.G.Z. is
released and 
eventually goes 
platinum.

March 13, 1993:
Tupac has a fight
with a limo driver
in Hollywood who
accuses him of using
drugs in the car.
Tupacis arrested,
but charges are later
dropped.

April 5, 1993:
Tupac is arrested 
in Lansing, Michigan,
for taking a swing 
at a local rapper with
a bat during a concert.
Tupac is sentenced to
10 days in jail.

July 23, 1993:
John Singleton's
Poetic Justice,
starring Tupac and 
Janet Jackson, is 
released.Jackson 
demanded Tupac to take
a HIV test before any
kissing scenes.

October 31, 1993:
Tupac is arrested
for allegedly shooting 
two off-duty Atlanta
officers.Charges are 
later dropped.

November 18, 1993:
A 19-year old woman
is allegedly sodomized
and sexually abused by
Tupac and 3 friends.

December 1993:
John Singleton is
forced by Columbia
Pictures to drop
the rapper from
the cast of his
upcoming film,
Higher Learning.

March 10, 1994:
Tupac is sentenced
to fifteen days in
jail for punching
out director Allen
Hughes for dropping
Tupac from a role
in Meance II
Society.

March 23, 1994:
Tupac stars as Birdie,
a troubled drug dealer,
in Above the Rim.

September 7, 1994:
Two Milwaukee teens
murder a police 
officer and cite Tupac's
"Souljah's Story" as
their inspiration.

November 30, 1994:
Tupac is shot 5 times
and robbed of $40,000
worth if jewelry.Checks
himself out of the 
hospital less than 3
hours after surgery.

December 1, 1994:
Tupac is acquitted
of sodomy and weapon
charges but is found
guilty of sexual
abuse.

February 14, 1995:
Tupac is sentenced to
up to four and a half
years and immediately
begins serving his
jail time in New York's
Rikers Island 
penitentiary.

April 1, 1995:
While incarcerated,
Tupac's third album,
Me Against the World,
debuts at No. 1 on
the Billboard's pop
chart.The album goes
double platinum in
seven months.

April 1995:
In a VIBE interview
from jail, Tupac
renounces his "Thug 
Life" persona and 
commits himself to
positive works.
Implicates Biggie 
Smalls, Puffy Combs, 
Andre Harrell,
Stretch, and others 
in the shooting 
ambush.

August 1995:
Biggie, Puffy,
and Harrell tell
VIBE they had
no connection to 
Tupac's shooting.

October 1995:
Death Row Records
CEO Suge Knight 
posts $1.4 million
bond to release 
Tupac, who 
immediately flies 
to L.A., signs with
Death Row, and begins
recording All 
Eyez on ME.

November 30, 1995:
Exactly one year 
after Tupac's shooting,
Randy "Stretch" Walker
is murdered execution-
style in Queens.

February 1996:
In VIBE, Tupac
suggests he's been
sleeping with
Biggie's wife,
Faith Evans.Faith
denies the stories.

February 13, 1996:
Tupac's Death Row
debut, All Eyez 
on Me, rap's 
first double
CD is released.

March 29, 1996:
Words are exchanged 
and a gun is pulled
when Death Row and
Bad Boy employees
face off after the
Soul Train
awards in L.A.

April 25, 1996:
In a little over 
two months,
All Eyez on Me
goes quintuple 
platinum.

May 1996:
Tupac and Snoop
Doggy Dogg release
"2 of Americaz Most
Wanted." In the video,
cariatures of Biggie
and Puffy are punished
for setting up Tupac.

June 4, 1996:
Death Row releases
Tupac's "Hit 'Em Up,"
a brutal diatribe 
against Biggie, Bad
Boy, Mobb Deep,
Nas, Jay Z and others.

September 4, 1996:
Tupac returns to
New York for the
MTV Music Video 
Awards and gets
into a scuffle.

Semptember 7, 1996:
Shakur is shot 4 times
in the chest while 
riding with Suge.
Tupac is rushed to
University Medical 
Center, where he
undergoes surgery.

Semtember 11, 1996:
A compton man who 
police say is 
associated with the 
L.A. Crips is shot to
death. Police begins
investigations
on Tupac's shooting.

Friday, September 13, 1996:
After six days in critical
condition, Tupac Shakur
is pronounced dead at
4:03 p.m. his body is later
cremated.He was 25.

November 5, 1996:
Makaveli album,
The Don Killuminati:
the 7 Day Theory,
released.