(¯\_'Tupac' Shakur_/¯)

February: Afeni, pregnant with Tupac, has her bail revoked; she's sent to the Women's House of Detention in Greenwich Village. ____________________________________________________________ __ 1971 June 16th: Shortly after his mom is acquitted on bombing charges, Tupac Amaru Shakur is born in New York. Tupac Amaru are Inca Words meaning "shining serpent." Shakur is Arabic for Thankful to God. ____________________________________________________________ __ 1975-1983 Tupac's family shuttles between the Bronx and Harlem, at times living in shelters. ____________________________________________________________ __ 1983 Legs comes to live with the Shakur family; Tupac "claims" him as his father. Legs introduces Afeni to Crack. ____________________________________________________________ __ September: Afeni enrolls 12-year-old Tupac in the 127th Street Ensemble, a Harlem theater group. In his first performance, Tupac plays Travis in a Raisin the Sun. ____________________________________________________________ __ 1986 June: Shakur's family moves to Baltimore;. As MC New York Tupac writes his first rap. ____________________________________________________________ __ September: Tupac enrolls at the Baltimore School for the Arts, where he studies ballet and acting. ____________________________________________________________ __ 1988 June: Tupac and his family move to Marine City, California "Leaving that school affected me so much," he said later. "I see that as the point where I got off track." Shortly after, Tupac moves in with a neighbor and begins selling drugs. ____________________________________________________________ __ August: Mutulu Shakur, Tupac's stepfather, is sentenced to sixty years in prison for his involvement in a 1981 armored-car robbery. ____________________________________________________________ __ 1990 Tupac joins Digital Underground as a rodie/dancer/rapper. While on tour, he learns that his mother is using crack. ____________________________________________________________ __ 1991 January 3rd: Tupac makes his recording debut on DU's. This is an E.P. Release ____________________________________________________________ __ November 12th: 2Pacaplypse Now is released. Shorty thereafter, Tupac files a $10 million lawsuit against the Oakland police for alleged brutality following an arrest for jaywalking. ____________________________________________________________ __ 1992 January 17th: Tupac makes his big-screen debut in Ernest Dickerson's Juice, earning praise for his portrayal of Bishop. He is perhaps best remembered for the line "I am crazy, and I don't give a f-ck!" ____________________________________________________________ __ April 11th: Ronald Ray Howard, 19, shoots a Texas trooper. Howard's attorney claims 2Pacalypse Now, which was in his client's tape deck, incited him to kill. ____________________________________________________________ __ Augest 22nd: Tupac has an altercation with old acquaintances in Marine City. A 6 year old bystander is shot in the head. Tupac's half brother, Maurice Harding is arrested but released due to lack of evidence. ____________________________________________________________ __ September 22nd: Tupac is denounced by Vice President Dan Quayle, who says 2Pacalypse Now "has no place in our society." ____________________________________________________________ __ 1993 February 1st: Strictly 4 My NIGGAZ is released and eventually goes platinum. ____________________________________________________________ __ March 13th: Tupac has a fight with a limo driver in Hollywood who accuses him of using drugs in the car. Tupac's arrested but the charges are dropped. ____________________________________________________________ __ April 5th: Tupac is arrested in Lansing Michigan, for taking a swing at a local rapper with a baseball bat during a concert. He's sentenced to 10 days in jail. ____________________________________________________________ __ July 23rd: John Singleton's Poetic Justice, starring Tupac and Janet Jackson, is released. Before filming began, Jackson demanded Shakur take an HIV test before she would do any kissing scenes. ____________________________________________________________ __ October 21st: Tupac is arrested for allegedly shooting two off-duty Atlanta police officers who he says were harassing a black motorist. Charges are eventually dropped. ____________________________________________________________ __ November 18th: A 19 year old woman, whom Tupac picked up 4 days earlier in a New York nightclub, is allegedly sodomized and sexually abused by the rapper and 3 of his friends. ____________________________________________________________ __ December: John Singleton is forced by Columbia Pictures to drop the rapper from the cast of his upcoming film, Higher Learning. ____________________________________________________________ __ 1994 March 10th: Tupac is sentenced to fifteen days in a Los Angeles jail for punching out director Allen Hughes. (Hughes and his brother, Albert, had dropped Tupac from Menace II Society.) ____________________________________________________________ __ March 23rd: Tupac stars as Birdie, a troubled drug dealer, in Above the Rim. The soundtrack album, featuring the song "Pour out a little Liquor," recorded by Tupac's group, Thug Life, sells 2 million copies. ____________________________________________________________ __ September 7th: Two Milwaukee teens murder a police officer and cite Tupac's "Souljah's Story" as their inspiration. ____________________________________________________________ __ November 30th: While on trial for sex and weapons charges, Tupac is shot five times and robbed of $40,000 worth of jewelry in the lobby of a Times Square recording studio. Tupac checks himself out of the hospital less than three hours after surgery. The case remains unsolved. ____________________________________________________________ __ December 1st: Tupac is acquitted of sodomy and weapons charges but is found guilty of sexual abuse. ____________________________________________________________ __ 1995 February 14th: Tupac is sentenced to up to four and a half years in a maximum security prison, convicted of touching her bum. He immediately begins serving his time in New York's Rikers Island penitentiary. ____________________________________________________________ __ April 1st: While he's incarcerated, Tupac's third album, Me Against the World, debuts at no. 1 on Billboard's pop chart. Fueled by the single "Dear Mama," the album goes double platinum in 7 monthsIn a vibe interview from jail, Tupac renounces "Thug Life" personal and commits himself to positive works. He also implicates Biggie Smalls, Puffy Combs, Andre Harrell, and his close friend Stretch, and others in the recording studio ambush. ____________________________________________________________ __ May: Shakur married longtime girlfriend, Keisha Morris. (I ain't sure about this one, so any info would be useful) ____________________________________________________________ __ August: Biggie, Puffy and Harrell tell Vibe, they had no connection to Tupac's shooting. ____________________________________________________________ __ October: Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight posts $1.4 million bond to release Tupac, who immediately flies to LA, signs with Death Row and begins recording All Eyez on Me. ____________________________________________________________ __ November 30th: Exactly on year after Tupac's shooting, Randy "Stretch" Walker is murdered execution-style in Queens. ____________________________________________________________ __ 1996 February: In Vibe Tupac suggests he's been sleeping with Biggie's wife, Faith Evans. She denies the stories. ____________________________________________________________ __ February 13th: Tupac's Death Row Debut, All Eyez on Me, rap's first double CD, is released. ____________________________________________________________ __ March 29th: Words are exchanged and a gun is pulled when Death Row and Bad Boy employees face off after the Soul Train awards in Los Angeles. ____________________________________________________________ __ April 25th: All Eyez on Me goes quintuple platinum. ____________________________________________________________ __ May: Tupac and Snoop Doggy Dogg release "2 of Amerikaz most Wanted." In the video, caricatures of Biggie and Puffy and punished for setting up Tupac. ____________________________________________________________ __ June 4th: Death Row releases Tupac's "Hit 'Em Up," a brutal diatribe against Biggie, Bad Boy, Mobb Deep, and others. ____________________________________________________________ __ September 4th: Tupac returns to New York for the MTV music awards and gets into a scuffle. ____________________________________________________________ __ September 7th: After leaving the Mike Tyson-Bruce Seldon fight in Las Vegas in Suge Knight's car, Shakur is shot four times in the chest by an assailant in a white Cadillac. Knight, who has connections with the Bloods, escapes with a minor injury. Shakur is rushed to University Medical Center, where he undergoes surgery, including the removal of his right lung. ____________________________________________________________ __ September 11th: A Compton man who police say is associated with the LA Crips is shot to death while sitting in his car, the first in a series of gang releated murders. Police begin investigating possible connections to Tupac's shooting. ____________________________________________________________ __ September 13th: After six days in critical condition, Tupac Shakur is pronounced dead at 4:03pm. His body is later cremated. He was only 25. ____________________________________________________________ ____