1968: Tupac's mother, Afeni Shakur, joins the NEW YORK Black Panther party at the age of 22.
April 1969: Afeni Shakur is arrested and charged with conspiracy to bomb several public areas in New York. While out on bail Afeni dates two men, Legs, a local G, and Billy, who is a member of the party.
February 1971: Afeni, pregnant with Tupac, has her bail revoked. She is then sent to the Womens House of Detention in Greenwich Village.
June 16 1971: Afeni gives birth to Tupac Amaru Shakur, shortly after been acquitted on bombing charges. Tupac Amaru are Inca words meaning "shining serpant". Shakur is Arabic for "Thankful to God".
1975-1983: Tupac's family constantly move between the Bronx and Harlem, sometimes living in shelters. Legs comes to live with the Shakur family and Tupac "claims" him as his father. Legs then introduces Afeni to Crack.
September 1983: Afeni enrolls Tupac, now aged 12, in the 127th Street Ensemble, a Harlem theater group. In his first performance little Tupac plays Travis in Raisin The Sun.
June 1986: Tupac's family move to Baltimore, where as MC New York Tupac writes his first rap.
September 1986:Tupac enrolls himself at the Baltimore School For Arts where 'pac studies ballet and acting.
June 1988: Tupac and his family move again, this time to Marine City, Claifornia. Tupac said later "leaving that school affected me so much, I see that as the point where I got of track." Shortly after moving Tupac moves in with a neighbour and begins to slang drugs.
August 1988: Mutulu Shakur, Tupac's stepfather, is sentenced to sixty years in prison for his involvement in a an amoured-car robbery which took place in 1981.
1990: Tupac joins Digital Underground as a rodie/dancer/rapper. Whilst he is on tour he learns that his mother, Afeni, is doing crack.
January 3, 1991: Tupac makes his recording debut on Digital Underground's. This is an E.P. release.
November 12, 1991: Tupac releases his debut solo album, 2PACALYPSE NOW. Shortly after 'pac launches a $10 million lawsuit against Oakland police for alleged brutality following his arrest for jaywalking.
January 17, 1992: Tupac makes his big-screen debut in Ernest Dickinson's JUICE, in which he earnt praise for his portrayel of his character, Bishop. He is perhaps best remebered for the line "Im crazy and I dont give a fuck!"
April 11, 1992: Ronald Ray Howard, aged 19, shoots a Texas trooper. Howard's attorney claims 2Pacalypse Now , incited him to kill.
August 22, 1992: Tupac meets with old mates 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 eveidence.
September 22, 1992: Tupac is denounced by vice president Dan Quayle, who says 2Pacalypse Now "has no place in our society." And what does everyone else think??.....fuck u Quayle!
February 1, 1993: STRICTLY 4 MY N.I.G.G.A.Z is released and goes platinum.
April 5, 1993: Tupac is arrested in Lansing Michigan for taking a swing at a local rapper with a baseball bat during a concert. 'pac is sentenced to 10 days in prison.
July 23, 1993: John Singleton's POETIC JUSTICE, starring Tupac and Janet Jackson is released. Before the filming began Janet demanded Tupac to take a HIV test before she would do any kissing scenes.
October 31, 1993: Tupac is arrested for allegedly shooting two off-duty Atlanta police officers who he says were harassing a black motorist. The charges are eventually dropped.
November 18, 1993: A 19 year old woman who Tupac 'picked-up' 4 days earlier in a New York nightclub, is allegedly sodomized and sexually abused by Tupac and 3 of his friends.
December 1993: John Singleton is forced by Columbia Pictures to drop Tupac from the cast of his upcoming film, Higher Learning.
March 10, 1994: Tupac is sentenced to 15 days in a Los Angeles jail for punching out Director Allen Hughes. Hughes and his brother had earlier dropped Tupac from the film Menace II Society.
March 23, 1994: Tupac stars as Birdie, a troubled drug dealer, in a film called Above The Rim. The soundtrack album, featuring the song "Pour out a little liquor," recorded by Tupac's group, Thug Life, sells 2 million coppies.
September 7, 1994: Two Milwaukee teens murder a police officer and say that Tupac's "Souljah's Story" is their inspiration.
November 30 1994: 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 Times Square Recording Studios. Tupac later checks himself out of the hospital less than three hours after the surgery. This case still remains unsolved.
December 1, 1994: Tupac is acquitted of sodomy and weapons charges but is found guilty of sexual abuse.
Febuary 14, 1995: Tupac is sentenced to up to four and a half years in a maximum security prison after been convIcted of "touching her bum." He immediately begins serving his time in the New York Rikers Island penitentiary.
April 1, 1995: While Tupac is in prison his third album, ME AGAINST THE WORLD, debuts at No.1 in the USA Billboard pop chart. Fueled by the single "Dear mama" the album goes double platinum in less than 7 months. John Singleton is forced by Columbia Pictures to drop Tupac from the cast of his upcoming film, Higher Learning.
April 1995: In a vibe interview from jail, Tupac renounces "Thug Life" persona 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.
August 1995: Biggie, Puffy and Harrell tell Vibe, they had no connection to Tupac's shooting.
October 1995: 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 30, 1995: Exactly on year after Tupac's shooting, Randy "Stretch" Walker is murdered execution-style in Queens.
February 1996: In Vibe Tupac suggests he's been sleeping with Biggie's wife, Faith Evans. She 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.
May 1996: 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 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. 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 11, 1996: 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 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 4:03pm. His body is later cremated. He was only 25.
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