Timeline February 1616

Events in February 1616 1

• 1616 Marriage of Judith Shakespeare Shakespeare's younger daughter Judith marries Thomas Quiney, a vintner, on 10 February 1616 — during Lent, without the required licence. Quiney is simultaneously revealed to have fathered a child by another woman, who dies in childbirth with the infant. Shakespeare alters his will days later, adjusting Judith's inheritance to protect it from her new husband. The scandal clouds his final weeks.