Читать книгу Southey on Nelson: The Life of Nelson by Robert Southey - Richard Holmes - Страница 15

1758 (29 September) Horatio Nelson born at Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk

1774 Robert Southey born in Bristol

1771 Nelson joins the Royal Navy as a midshipman at Chatham

1773 Nelson sails to the Arctic

1777 Nelson sails to the West Indies

1787 Nelson marries Mrs Fanny Nisbet on Nevis, in the British Caribbean

1788 Nelson retires to Norfolk on half-pay

1792 Southey goes to Oxford University

1793 (January) Nelson given command of HMS Agamemnon (September) Nelson first meets Emma Hamilton at Naples

1794 (July) Nelson loses sight of right eye while besieging Calvi, Corsica

1795 Southey lectures with Coleridge in Bristol

1796 Southey sails to Spain

1797 (February) Nelson ‘breaks the line’ at the Battle of Cape St Vincent (July) Nelson loses right arm at Santa Cruz

1798 (August) Nelson wins the Battle of the Nile (Aboukir Bay) Southey publishes his ballads, ‘The Inchscape Rock’ and ‘The Battle of Blenheim’

1799 Nelson in Naples with Emma Hamilton Execution of Caraccioli, and Neapolitan ‘rebels’

1800 Nelson separates from Lady Nelson

1801 (April) Nelson disobeys orders at the Battle of Copenhagen

Nelson’s illegitimate daughter, Horatia, born Southey publishes Thalaba, the Destroyer

1803 (June) Nelson takes command of the Mediterranean fleet

Southey moves to the Lake District

1805 (August) Nelson’s last summer in England with Emma and Horatia

(15 October) Nelson dies at the Battle of Trafalgar

1810 Southey begins publishing his History of Brazil Southey reviews several Nelson biographies for The Quarterly

1813 Southey publishes The Life of Nelson Southey appointed Poet Laureate

1815 Emma Hamilton dies in Calais

1820 Southey publishes The Life of John Wesley

1833 Southey publishes his Lives of the British Admirals

1843 Southey dies in Keswick, Cumberland