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1775 Birth of Joseph Mallord William Turner in London on 23 April.

1787 Makes first signed and dated watercolours.

1789 Probably begins studying with Thomas Malton, Jr and also admitted as student to Royal Academy Schools.

1790 Exhibits first work at the Royal Academy.

1791 Tours the West Country.

1792 Tours south and central Wales.

1793 Awarded the ‘Greater Silver Pallet’ for landscape drawing by the Royal Society of Arts.

1794 Tours Midlands and north Wales.

1795 Tours southern England and south Wales.

1796 Exhibits first oil painting at the Royal Academy.

1797 Tours north of England and Lake District.

1798 Tours north Wales.

1799 Elected an Associate Royal Academician. Visits West Country, Lancashire and north Wales.

1801 Tours Scotland.

1802 Elected Royal Academician. Tours Switzerland.

1804 Death of mother after a long illness.

1805 Holds first exhibition in own gallery in London.

1807 Elected Royal Academy Professor of Perspective.

1808 Visits Cheshire and Wales. Probably pays first visit to Farnley Hall, home of Walter Fawkes.

1811 Delivers first course of perspective lectures at the Royal Academy. Tours West Country for material for the ‘Southern Coast’ series.

1812 First quotation from his own poem, ‘Fallacies of Hope’, in the Royal Academy catalogue.

1813 Completes Sandycombe Lodge in Twickenham. Revisits West Country.

1814 Again tours West Country.

1815 Tours Yorkshire.

1816 Tours Yorkshire to gain material for the ‘Richmondshire’ series.

1817 Tours Belgium, Germany and Holland.

1818 Visits Edinburgh.

1819 Walter Fawkes exhibits over sixty Turner watercolours in his London residence. Pays first visit to Italy, stays in Venice, Florence, Rome and Naples.

1821 Visits Paris and tours northern France.

1822 Visits Edinburgh for State Visit of King George IV.

1824 Tours south-east England, also the Meuse and Moselle rivers.

1825 Tours Holland, Germany and Belgium. Death of Walter Fawkes.

1826 Tours Germany, Brittany and the Loire.

1827 Stays at East Cowes castle, the home of the architect John Nash. Autumn, starts visiting Petworth regularly.

1828 Delivers last lectures as Royal Academy Professor of Perspective. Visits Italy a second time, stays principally in Rome.

1829 Exhibits seventy-nine ‘England and Wales’ series watercolours in London. Visits Paris, Normandy and Brittany. Death of father. Draws up first draft of will.

1830 Tours Midlands. Exhibits a watercolour for the last time at the Royal Academy.

1831 Tours Scotland. Revises will.

1832 Visits Paris, probably meets Delacroix.

1833 Exhibits 66 ‘England and Wales’ watercolours in London. Visits Vienna and Venice.

1835 Tours Denmark, Prussia, Saxony, Bohemia, the Rhineland and Holland.

1836 Tours France, Switzerland and the Val d’Aosta.

1837 Death of Lord Egremont. Resigns as Royal Academy Professor of Perspective.

1839 Tours the Meuse and Moselle rivers.

1840 Meets John Ruskin for the first time. Visits Venice.

1841 Tours Switzerland, and does so again in following three summers.

1845 Acts as temporary President of Royal Academy. Tours northern France in May; in the autumn Dieppe and Picardy, his last tour.

1846 Moves to Chelsea around this time.

1848–49 Growing infirmity. Revises will.

1850 Exhibits for the last time at the Royal Academy.

1851 Dies 19 December in Chelsea, London.

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