Time Line
June 16, 1971-Tupac Amaru Shakur is born in New York.
September 1983-Tupac,12,is enrolled in the 127th Street Ensemble, a Harlem theater group. In his first performance he plays Travis in A Raisin in the sun.
June 1986-Afeni Shakur moves her family to Baltimore and as MC New York Tupac writes his first rap.
September 1986-Tupac enrolls at the Baltimore School of arts.
June 1986-Tupac and his family move to Marin City, California. Shortly after Tupac moves in with a neighbour and starts selling drugs.
August 1988-Mutulu Shakur, Tupac's stepfather, is sentanced to sixty years in prison for his involvement in a 1981 armoured-car robbery.
1990-Tupac joins Digital Underground as a dancer/rapper.
January 3 1991-Tupac makes his recording debut on Digital Underground's This is an E.P. Release.
November 12, 1991-2pacalypse Now is released.
January 17, 1992-Tupac plays Bishop in his big-screen debut in Juice.
April 11, 1992-Ronald Ray Howard, 19, shoots a Texas trooper. His attorney claims 2pacalypse Now incited him to kill.
August 22, 1992-Tupac has an altercation with old acquaintances in Marin City. A 6-year old bystander is shot in the head. Maurice Harding (Tupac's half brother) is arrested but released due to lack of evidence.
September 22, 1992-Tupac is denounced by Vice President Dan Quayle, who says 2pacalypse Now "has no place in our society".
February 1, 1993- Strictly 4 my N.I.G.G.A.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. He is arrested but the charges are dropped.
April 5, 1993-Tupac is arrested in Michigan, for taking a swing at a local rapper with a baseball bat in a concert. He's sentanced to 10 days in jail.
July 23, 1993-Poetic Justice starring Tupac and Janet Jackson is released. Jackson demands Shakur take a HIV test before she'd do any kissing scenes.
October 31, 1993-Tupac is arrested for allegedley shooting at two off-duty Atlanta police officers who he says were harassing a black motorist. Charges were eventually dropped.
November 18, 1993-A 19-year-old woman, whom Tupac picked up a couple of days earlier in a New York night club, is alledgedley sodomized and sexually abused by Shakur and three of his friends.
March 10, 1994-Tupac is sentenced to fifteen days in a Los Angeles jail for pumching out director Allen Hughes.(Hughes and his brother, Albert, had dropped Tupac from Menace II Society.)
March 23, 1994-Above the Rim is released and Tupac plays Birdie,a drug dealer.
September 7, 1994- Two Milwaukee teenagers kill a police officer and cite Tupac's Soulja's Story as their inspiration.
November 30, 1994-While on sex and weapons charges, Tupac is shot five times and robbed of over $40,000 worth of jewelry in the lobby of a Times Square recoding studio. Tupac checks himself out of the hospital less than three hours after surgery.The case remains unsolved.
December 1, 1994-Tupac is acquitted of sodomy and weapons charges but is found guilty of sexual abuse.
February 14, 1995-Tupac is sentanced to 4½ years in jail.
April 1, 1995-While locked up, Tupac's third album, Me Against The World, debuts at No.1 on Billboard's pop chart.
April 1995-In an interview with magazine VIBE, Tupac implicates Biggie Smalls,Puffy Combs, Andre Harrell, his close friend Stretch, and others in the recording studio ambush.
August 1995-Biggie, Puffy and Harrell tell VIBE they had no connection with 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 is murdered execution-style in Queens.
February 1996-Tupac suggests in VIBE he has 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 Los Angeles.
April 25, 1996-All Eyez On Me goes quintuple platinum.
June 4, 1996-Death Row releases Tupac's Hit'Em Up, a brutal diatribe against Biggie, Bad Boy, Mobb Deep, and others.
September 4, 1996-Tupac returns to New York for the MTV Music Awards and gets into a scuffle.
September 7, 1996-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.Shakur is rushed to University Medical Center, where he undergoes surgery, including the removal of his right lung.
September 11, 1996-A Compton man who was said to be associated with the L.A Crips is shot to death while sitting in his car, the first in a series of gang-related murders. Police begin investigating possible connections to 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 Killiminati:The 7 day theory, is released.
February 28, 1997-Suge Knight is sentenced to nine years in prison for his role in the attack on Orlando Anderson the night of Tupac's shooting.
March 9, 1997-Christopher Wallace (Notorious B.I.G.) is murdered in Los Angeles in a drive-by shooting.
October 8, 1997-Gang Related, starring Tupac and James Belushi is released.
November 25, 1997- R U Still down? (Remember me), a double CD of previously unreleased Tupac tracks, comes out on Amaru Records, a label established to be run by Afeni Shakur.
May 29, 1998-Orlando Anderson is killed during a dispute at a Los Angeles car wash.