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1854—16 October Oscar Wilde born at 21 Westland Row, Dublin

1855—June Family moves to I Merrion Square North

1864–71—At Portora Royal School, Enniskillen

1871—Wins scholarship to Trinity College, Dublin

1873—June Wins Trinity Foundation Scholarship

1874—Wins Berkeley Gold Medal for Greek

June Wins Demyship in Classics to Magdalen College, Oxford

October Goes up to Magdalen

1875—June Travels in Italy with his old Trinity Classics Tutor, J. P. Mahaffy

1876—19 April Death of father, Sir William Wilde

5 July Gains first class in Classical Moderations (Mods)

1877 March-April Visits Greece with Mahaffy, returning via Rome

1878 10 June Wins Newdigate Poetry Prize with ‘Ravenna’

19 July Gains first class in Literae Humaniores (Greats)

28 November Takes BA degree

1879 February Takes rooms with Frank Miles at 13 Salisbury Street, London

1880 Writes and publishes Vera

August Moves with Miles to Keats House, Tite Street, Chelsea

1881 June First edition of Poems published by David Bogue

24 December Sails to New York for lecture tour of the United States

1882 Lectures in US and Canada all year

1883 February-May In Paris, at Hotel Voltaire where he writes The Duchess of Padua for the American actress Mary Anderson who then turns it down

?July Moves into rooms at 9 Charles Street, London

August-September Visits New York briefly for first production of Vera with Marie Prescott in the lead; it is not a success September Begins lecture tour of UK which lasts off and on for a year

26 November Becomes engaged to Constance Lloyd while lecturing in Dublin

1884 29 May Married to Constance Lloyd in London

May-June On honeymoon in Paris and Dieppe

1885 January Moves into 16 Tite Street, Chelsea

May ‘The Truth of Masks’ published in the Nineteenth Century

5 June Cyril Wilde born

1886 Meets Robert Ross who remains lifelong friend and after his death becomes his literary executor

3 November Vyvyan Wilde born

1887 February-March ‘The Canterville Ghost’ published in the Court & Society Review

May ‘The Sphinx without a Secret’ published in the World and ‘Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime’ in the Court & Society Review

June ‘The Model Millionaire’ published in the World

November Becomes editor of Woman’s World

1888 May The Happy Prince and Other Tales published

December ‘The Young King’ published in the Lady’s Pictorial

1889 January ‘The Decay of Lying’ published in the Nineteenth Century and ‘Pen, Pencil and Poison’ in the Fortnightly Review

March ‘The Birthday of the Infanta’ published in Paris Illustre

July Gives up editorship of Woman’s World. ‘The Portrait of Mr W. H.’ appears in Blackwood’s Magazine

1890 20 June ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ appears in Lippincott’s Magazine

July-September Both parts of ‘The Critic as Artist’ published these months in the Nineteenth Century

1891 26 January First production of The Duchess of Padua under the title Guido Ferranti. It opens anonymously in New York and runs for only three weeks

February ‘The Soul of Man under Socialism’ published in the Fortnightly Review

April The Picture of Dorian Gray published in book form with additional chapters and a preface

2 May Intentions published (comprising ‘The Truth of Masks’, ‘The Critic as Artist’, ‘Pen, Pencil & Poison’ and ‘The Decay of Lying’)

?June Meets Lord Alfred Douglas (Bosie)

July Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories (the other stories being ‘The Sphinx without a Secret’, ‘The Canterville Ghost’ and ‘The Model Millionaire’) published in book form

November A House of Pomegranates published. It included ‘The Young King’, ‘The Birthday of the Infanta’, ‘The Fisherman and his Soul’ and ‘The Star Child’, the last two of which had not been published before

November-December Writes Salome in Paris

1892 20 February Lady Windermere’s Fan produced at St James’s Theatre

June A production of Salome with Sarah Bernhardt in the title role is banned by the Lord Chamberlain July Takes cure at Homburg

August-September Writes A Woman of No Importance in Norfolk

1893 22 February Salome published in French

19 April A Woman of No Importance produced at Haymarket Theatre

October Writes An Ideal Husband

November Lady Windermere’s Fan published

1894 9 February Salome published in English with Aubrey Beardsley’s illustrations

May In Florence with Douglas

11 June The Sphinx published

July ‘Poems in Prose’ published in the Fortnightly Review

August-September Writes The Importance of Being Earnest at Worthing

9 October A Woman of No Importance published

October At Brighton with Douglas

November ‘A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated’ published in the Saturday Review

December ‘Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young’ published in the Chameleon

1895 3 January An Ideal Husband produced at Haymarket Theatre

January-February Visits Algiers with Douglas

14 February The Importance of Being Earnest produced at St James’s Theatre

28 February Finds Queensberry’s card at Albemarle Club

1 March Obtains warrant for Queensberry’s arrest

9 March Queensberry remanded at Bow Street for trial at Old Bailey

12–20 March Visits Monte Carlo with Douglas

3 April Queensberry trial opens

5 April Queensberry acquitted. Wilde arrested at Cadogan Hotel and charged at Bow Street. Bail refused. Imprisoned at Holloway until first trial

24 April Sheriff’s sale of all Wilde’s possessions at his home, 16 Tite Street

26 April First trial opens

1 May Jury disagree

7 May Released on bail

20 May Second trial opens

25 May Convicted and sentenced to two years’ hard labour. Imprisoned at Pentonville

30 May The Soul of Man under Socialism published in book form

4 July Transferred to Wandsworth

12 November Declared bankrupt

20 November Transferred to Reading

1896 3 February Death of his mother, Lady Wilde

11 February Salome produced in Paris at the Theatre de l’Oeuvre

1897 January-March Writes De Profundis

19 May Released. Crosses to Dieppe

26 May Moves from Dieppe to Berneval-sur-Mer July-October Writes and revises The Ballad of Reading Gaol

?28 August Meets Douglas in Rouen

15 September Leaves Dieppe for Paris

20 September Arrives at Naples with Douglas

1898 February Returns to Paris

13 February The Ballad of Reading Gaol published

End March Moves to Hotel d’Alsace, rue des Beaux-Arts, Paris

7 April Death of Constance Wilde in Genoa after spinal operation

June-July At Nogent-sur-Marne

August At Chevennieres-sur-Marne

December Invited by Frank Harris to spend three months on French Riviera at Napoule near Cannes

1899 February The Importance of Being Earnest published. Leaves Napoule for Nice

25 February Leaves Nice to stay as Harold Mellor’s guest at Gland, Switzerland

13 March Willie Wilde, his brother, dies

1 April Leaves Gland for Santa Margherita on Italian Riviera

May Returns to Paris. Stays at Hotel de la Neva, then at Hotel Marsollier

July An Ideal Husband published

August Moves back to the Hotel d’Alsace

1900—April-May Spends two weeks as Mellor’s guest travelling in Italy and Sicily

May Returns to the Hotel d’Alsace

10 October Undergoes ear operation in hotel room

30 November Dies in Hotel d’Alsace of cerebral meningitis. Buried at Bagneux

1905—February De Profundis first published in heavily expurgated form by Robert Ross

1906—July Wilde’s estate discharged from bankruptcy. Creditors paid 20s in the £ and 4 per cent interest from sales of books and licensing of plays

1908—First collected edition of Wilde’s works published by Methuen

1909—20 July Wilde’s remains are moved from the cemetery at Bagneux to Pere Lachaise and reinterred under Jacob Epstein’s monument. The manuscript of De Profundis is presented by Ross to the British Museum on the condition that it remain closed for fifty years

1945—20 March Death of Lord Alfred Douglas

1949—Suppressed part of De Profundis published by Wilde’s son, Vyvyan Holland, from Ross’s typescript

1954—Unveiling of plaque on Wilde’s London home at 16 Tite Street

1956—First publication of the original four-act version of The Importance of Being Earnest

1962—Publication of Wilde’s Collected Letters including first fully correct version of De Profundis

1995—Consecration of a window to Oscar Wilde in Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey

1998—Erection of a publicly funded sculpture A Conversation with Oscar Wilde in Adelaide Street, London