| 1756 | (3 March) Birth of William Godwin |
| 1759 | (27 April) Birth of Mary Wollstonecraft |
| 1775 | Wollstonecraft meets Fanny Blood |
| 1785 | Wollstonecraft goes to Lisbon |
| 1786 | Wollstonecraft publishes Thoughts on the Education of Daughters |
| 1788 | Wollstonecraft works as governess in Dublin |
| | Wollstonecraft begins writing for the Analytical Review Wollstonecraft publishes Mary: a Fiction (novel) |
| 1791 | (November) Godwin and Wollstonecraft meet at dinner party in London with Joseph Johnson and Tom Paine |
| 1792 | (January) Wollstonecraft publishes A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Wollstonecraft intimate with Henry Fuseli (December) Wollstonecraft goes to Paris |
| 1793 | Godwin publishes An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (April) Wollstonecraft meets Gilbert Imlay in Paris |
| 1794 | (May) Fanny Imlay born at Le Havre-Marat Godwin publishes Caleb Williams (novel) |
| 1795 | (April) Wollstonecraft returns to London Wollstonecraft travels in Scandinavia Wollstonecraft makes two suicide attempts in London Wollstonecraft publishes Letters Written during a Short Residence in Norway, Denmark and Sweden |
| 1796 | (April) Wollstonecraft calls upon Godwin |
| 1797 | (March) Godwin and Wollstonecraft marry (30 August) Birth of Mary Godwin (10 September) Death of Mary Wollstonecraft |
| 1798 | (January) Godwin publishes Memoirs of the Author of the Rights of Woman (first edition) (August) Godwin publishes Memoirs (second edition) |
| 1801 | Godwin publishes St Leon (novel) |
| 1814 | Shelley elopes with Mary Godwin |
| 1816 | Fanny Imlay (Godwin) commits suicide |
| 1836 | Death of William Godwin |
| 1853 | Death of Mary Shelley |
| 1892 | Centenary edition of A Vindication of the Rights of Women |
| 1927 | Third edition of Memoirs, edited by William Clark Durant |
