1993
Construction work on the Globe begins.
1993
Sam Wanamaker dies while the Globe is still under construction, after a lengthy process of trying to secure planning permission and sufficient funding.
1995
Mark Rylance becomes the Globe's first artistic director.
1995
Amends for Ladies by Nathan Field is the first Read Not Dead performance.
1996
The Two Gentlemen of Verona is performed as part of The Prologue Season.
1997
Official opening of the Globe. The building has been constructed as closely as possible to the original, using green oak and fixing the timbers together with wooden pegs. Changes include installing a sprinkler system and fire retardant materials.
1997
The Festival of Firsts season, which includes the first original practices production (Henry V) and the first international production (Umabatha - Zulu Macbeth).
1999
The first performance of a piece of new writing at the Globe, Augustine's Oak, written by Peter Oswald and directed by Tim Carroll.
2006 - 2010
The RSC's Courtyard Theatre opens, a temporary construction for use while the Royal Shakespeare and Swan Theatre are under redevelopment.
2008
The Rose Theatre Kingston opens, modelled on the Elizabethan Rose Theatre on London's Bankside.
2010
The RSC's Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon reopens.
2012
Shakespeare's plays are performed in 38 languages in the Globe to Globe festival.
2014
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse opens with the production The Duchess of Malfi. The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse is an intimate candlelit indoor theatre with capacity for 340 audience members, and it is predominantly lit with beeswax candles.
2016
The 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death inspires more construction of Globe theatres around the world. The Pop-up Globe opens in Auckland, New Zealand to showcase Shakespeare's plays. This is the first full-scale temporary working replica of the Globe.
2018
Europe's first Elizabethan pop-up theatre opens in York for a ten week season.