William Shakespeare, a playwright and poet, marries Anne Hathaway in 1582.
In November 1582, William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway, with whom he stayed married until Shakespeare's death in 1616. William was 18 when they married, and Anne was 26 and pregnant with their first child. The average age of marriage at the time was 26, thus Anne would have been a suitable young lady. William, on the other hand, was still a juvenile in the eyes of the law and so needed Anne's father's consent to marry her. Shakespeare's early marriage also meant that he would be unable to officially finish an apprenticeship.
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