Tupac Shakur: A Timeline

June 16, 1971 - Tupac Amaru Shakur is born in New York, NY, shortly after his mother is acquitted bombing charges for the Black Panther organization.

1975 to 1983 - Tupac and his family switch repeatedly between homes in the Bronx and Harlem, at times living in shelters.

1983 - Tupac recognizes "Legs," one of his mother's boyfriends, as his father.

September 1983 - Tupac enrolls in the 127th Street Ensemble, a theater group in Harlem, where he acts in teh play "A Raisin in the Sun."

June 1986 - The Shakur family moves to Baltimore, MD. Tupac writes his first rap.

September 1986 - Tupac begins attending the Baltimore School of the Arts.

June 1988 - Tupac's family moves to Marine City, CA, stating that leaving the School of the Arts was the point "where [he] got off track." He begins to sell drugs shortly after.

August 1988 - Tupac's stepfather, Mutulu Shakur, is sentenced to sixty years in prison for his involvement in the robbery of an armed car.

1990 - Tupac joins Digital Underground as a dancer and rapper.

January 3, 1991 - Tupac makes his recording debut with Digital Underground.

November 12, 1991 - Tupac releases his album "2Pacalypse Now."

January 17, 1992 - Tupac makes his first film appearance in Ernest Dickerson's "Juice," gaining him widespread acclaim for his acting.

August 22, 1992 - Tupac's half-brother, Maurice Harding, is arrested for accidentally shooting a six year old during an altercation, but is released.

September 22, 1992 - The Vice President Dan Quayle denounces Tupac's music, saying it 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. Tupac is arrested but the charges are dropped.

April 5, 1993: Tupac is arrested for attacking another rapper with a baseball bat during a concert. He's sentenced to 10 days in jail.

July 23, 1993 - Tupac stars in John Singleton's "Poetic Justice" with Janet Jackson.

March 23, 1994 - Tupac stars in another film, "Above the Rim," this time playing a drug dealer.

October 31, 1993 - Tupac is accused of shooting two off-duty Atlanta police officers who he claims were harassing a black motorist. Charges are eventually dropped.

November 18, 1993 - A 19 year old woman accuses Tupac of raping her with three of his friends.

November 30, 1994 - Tupac is shot five times and robbed of $40,000 worth of jewelry in the lobby of a Times Square recording studio. The case remains unsolved.

February 14, 1995 - Tupac is sentenced to up to four and a half years in a maximum security prison for sexual assault. During his incarceration, Tupac's album "Me Against the World" debuts at No. 1 on Billboard's Pop Chart and eventually goes double platinum.

April 1995 - In an interview from jail, Tupac renounces "Thug Life" and commits himself to positive works. He also states that Biggie Smalls, Puffy Combs, Andre Harrell, and his close friend Stretch, and others were involved in the recording studio ambush, which the rappers later deny.

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, which 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.

September 7, 1996 - A few days after a scuffle at the MTV Music Awards, Tupac Shakur is shot four times in the chest by an assailant in a white Cadillac while leaving the Mike Tyson vs. Bruce Seldon fight. Shakur is rushed to University Medical Center, where he undergoes surgery, including the removal of his right lung. A series of gang-related murders soon breaks out.

September 13, 1996 - After six days in critical condition, Tupac Shakur is pronounced dead at 4:03 pm. His body is later cremated. He was only 25 years old.

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