| Term | Definition |
| Sunday | Mercutio tells Romeo to give up on Rosaline |
| Monday | Romeo gets Friar Lawrence to agree to perform the wedding. |
| Thursday | Prince gives his judgement that the deaths are a punishment on both families because of the feud. |
| Sunday | The Prince declares that anyone caught fighting in the streets will forfeit his life. |
| Monday | Tybalt is killed and the Prince declares that Romeo is banished as punishment. |
| Monday | Mercutio is killed |
| Wednesday | Juliet is buried |
| Wednesday | Balthasar brings word to Romeo that Juliet has died. |
| Sunday | Romeo and Benvolio meet the servant and read the guest list. |
| Monday | Benvolio goes to check on Romeo and discovers the letter of challenge from Tybalt. |
| Tuesday | Capulet promises Juliet to Paris to marry on Thursday. |
| Tuesday | Juliet refuses the marriage and asks the Friar to help. |
| Tuesday | Juliet drinks the sleeping potion. |
| Monday | Romeo and Juliet are married. |
| Sunday | Romeo crashes the Capulet party and sees Juliet. |
| Tuesday | Friar Lawrence sends Friar John to Mantua with a message for Romeo. |
| Tuesday | Juliet pretends to go along with the marriage plan and Capulet moves the wedding up a day. |
| Thursday | Lady Capulet dies that early morning out of grief for Romeo's banishment. |
| Tuesday | Lady Capulet threatens to hire an assassin to poison Romeo. |
| Tuesday | Romeo leaves for Mantua. |