THE OSCHOLARS

 

THE WILDE CHRONOLOGY

This is assembled from the Calendars that were published monthly in THE OSCHOLARS in 2001/2.

It complements THE WILDE CALENDAR (q.v.) in that the information is given in chronological order rather than as a day-by-day diary.

Although much in this Chronology is well-known, we believe that a continuing project of adding new material to it is possible, and that it will be an increasingly valuable biographical tool.

Much work still  needs to be done and all contributions and corrections are welcome and of course will be credited.

We will add the American lectures omitted from the monthly calendars.  There is  a well-designed and accurate Calendar of Wilde's engagements in America, edited by Marilyn Bisch, on the website of The Oscar Wilde Society of America.  This can be found at http://owsoa.org/library/libraryhome.htm.

Contributors include Geoff Dibb, Danielle Guérin, Anne Jordan, Robert Maguire, Peter Vernier and Roy Waters,
to whom our thanks, which are also due to John Cooper for suggesting this format.

CL = Complete Letters

New material and corrections last added: 9th March 2006

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Year

Day

Month

Event

1805

02

04

Birth of Hans Christian Andersen.

1809

06

08

Birth of Alfred Tennyson.

1811

31

08

Birth of Théophile Gautier.

1812

07

04

Birth of Robert Browning.

1813

22

05

Birth of Richard Wagner.

1820

06

04

Birth of Nadar.

1823

11

05

Birth of Alfred Stevens.

1824

11

05

Birth of Jean Léon Gérôme.

1828

12

05

Birth of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

1833

30

04

Birth of Hortense Schneider.

1833

28

05

Birth of Félix Bracquemond.

1834

10

07

Birth of Whistler.

1836

31

05

Birth of Jules Chéret.

1836

25

08

Birth of Bret Harte.

1837

05

04

Birth of Swinburne.

1838

20

08

Birth of Augustin Daly.

1840

02

04

Birth of Zola.

1840

20

04

Birth of Odilon Redon.

1840

07

05

Birth of Piotr Tchaikovski.

1840

09

05

Birth of Blanche d'Antigny.

1841

22

05

Birth of Catulle Mendès.

1842

12

05

Birth of Massenet.

1842

23

08

Birth of John Payne.

1843

15

04

Birth of Henry James.

1844

03

05

Birth of Richard D'Oyley Carte.

1844

22

05

Birth of Mary Cassatt.

1844

15

08

Birth of Walter Crane.

1845

12

05

Birth of Gabriel Fauré.

1845

16

05

Birth of Elie Metchnikoff.

1848

07

06

Birth of Paul Gauguin.

1849

18

08

Birth of Gyp de Martel.

1850

20

04

Birth of J.-F. Raffaëlli.

1850

05

08

Birth of Guy de Maupassant.

1851

12

11

Wedding of Jane Elgee and William Wilde.

1852

26

09

Birth of William Charles Kingsbury Wilde (Willie).

1853

24

05

Birth of Alphonse Bertillon.

1853

30

05

Birth of Frank O'Meara.

1853

06

06

Birth of J.E.C. Bodley

1853

30

09

Birth of David 'Dunsky' Hunter Blair [no hyphen]. [PV]

1854

11

01

 Birth of William Welsford 'Bouncer' Ward  [PV]

1854

16

10

BIRTH OF OSCAR WILDE.

1855

26

04

Wilde baptised at St Mark's, Great Brunswick Street (now Pearse Street),Dublin.

1855

21

05

Birth of Émile Verhaeren.

1855

24

05

Birth of Arthur Wing Pinero.

1855

28

08

Wedding of HoraceLloyd and Adelaide (Adele) Atkinson, the parents of Constance Wilde.

1856

09

04

Birth of Harry de Windt.

1856

06

05

Birth of Sigmund Freud.

1856

20

05

Birth of Henri-Edmond Cross.

1856

22

06

Birth of Henry Rider Haggard.

1856

26

07

Birth of George Bernard Shaw.

1857

02

04

Birth of Isola Wilde.

1857

02

06

Birth of Richard Reginald 'Kitten' Harding ['not Reginald Richard', as Ellmann, p 43, has it, the mistake originating in the Magdalen Record].  [PV]

1858

04

04

Birth of Remy de Gourmont.

1858

04

05

Birth of Frank Benson.

1858

19

06

Birth of George Alexander.

1858

17

07

Birth of Florence Balcombe.

1858

21

07

Birth of Lovis Corinth.

1858

15

08

Birth of Emma Calvé.

1859

15

05

Birth of Pierre Curie.

1859

22

05

Birth of Arthur Conan Doyle.

1859

28

07

Birth of Mary Anderson.

1860

13

04

Birth of James Ensor.

1860

22

04

Birth of Ada Rehan [Crehan] in Limerick.

1860

09

05

Birth of J.M. Barrie.

1860

31

05

Birth of Walter Sickert.

1860

18

08

Birth of  Jules Laforgue.

1861

29

06

Birth of Félix Fénéon.

-15    1876

11

07

Wilde attends garden parties at Bingham Rectory and the Duke of Rutland's(CL, p.22).  [PV]

1862

29

 

Birth of Maurice Maeterlinck.

1862

24

04

Birth of Cyril Maude.

1862

22

06

Birth of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and of Claude Debussy.

1862

06

08

Birth of Elizabeth Robins.

1863

06

05

Lady Wilde writes to Mary Travers.

1863

25

05

Birth of Camille Erlanger.

1864

28

01

William Wilde knighted.

1864

18

04

Birth of Richard Harding Davis.

1864

22

04

Birth of Phil May.

1864

01

08

The Wildes visit Bray [to 12th August].

1864

12

12

Travers v. Wilde opens [to 17th December].

1865

07

05

Birth of A.E.W. Mason.

1865

19

05

Birth of Reginald Lister.

1866

26

02

Wedding of the Marquess of Queensberry and Sibyl Montgomery in Saint George's Church, Hanover Square.  [DG]

1866

17

05

Birth of Erik Satie.

1867

12

05

Birth of Frank Brangwyn.

1867

27

05

Birth of Arnold Bennett.

1867

 

08

Wilde spends three weeks in Paris.

1867

02

08

Birth of Ernest Dowson.

1867

04

08

Birth of Travers Humphreys.

1868

29

05

Birth of Baron Frédéric d'Erlanger.

1869

 

02

Wilde goes to Portora Royal School, Enniskillen [to 1871].

1869

25

05

Birth of Robert Ross.

1870?

02

06

Birth of Reggie Turner.

1871

16

04

Birth of John Millington Synge.

1871

10

07

Birth of Marcel Proust.

1871

10

10

Wilde goes up to Trinity College Dublin, with rooms at 18 Botany Bay [to 1874].

1871

22

10

Birth of Lord Alfred Douglas.

1871

26

11

Wilde becomes a Queen's Scholar.

1872

31

01

Wilde placed third in Exam Honours.

1872

09

04

Birth of Léon Blum.

1872

29

04

Wilde wins the Michaelmas Prize.

1872

21

08

Birth of Aubrey Beardsley.

1872

24

08

Birth of Max Beerbohm.

1872

02

10

Wilde gives 'Selected Poems of Matthew Arnold' to Helena  Sickert.

1873

11

05

Birth of Chaliapin.

1873

09

06

Wilde elected to a Foundation Scholarship.

1873

19

11

Wilde elected to the 'Hist' at Trinity.

1874

27

04

Birth of Maurice Baring.

1874

21

05

Birth of W. Somerset Maugham.

1874

11

06

Wilde's Magdalen demyship gazetted.

1874

 

08

J.E.C. Bodley meets Wilde in Dublin during Horse Show Week.

1874

17

09

Wilde matriculates at Oxford.

1874

10

10

Start of the Michaelmas Term at  Oxford University. Wilde starts at Magdalen College.  [PV]

1875

19

01

J.E.C. Bodley encounters Oscar Wilde with Willie at the Victoria Music Hall, Oxford.

1875

17

02

'Found Wilde and Barton boxing in my rooms' [D.P. Barton?] (J.E.C. Bodley's diary).

1875

22

02

J.E.C. Bodley meets Wilde.

1875

23

02

Wilde received into the Oxford University Freemasons, Apollo Lodge.

1875

05

04

Birth of Mistinguett.

1875

22

04

Wilde let off progging fine.

1875

24

04

Wilde raised to second degree Mason.

1875

25

04

J.E.C. Bodley dines with Wilde.

1875

14

05

Wilde on the River Cherwell with Bodley and Goldschmidt. Wilde, Bodley and Bodley's brother Albert have supper at the Mitre Hotel (J. E. C. Bodley's diary, Bodleian Library).  [PV]

1875

25

05

Wilde raised to Master Mason.

1875

25

05

Wilde and Bodley dine together.  Lodge meeting: William Grenfell, Prince Leopold, Wilde,  Bodley.

1875

16-20

06

(between) Wilde visits Venice.

1875

03

06

Wilde found by J.E.C. Bodley late in the evening in Harter’s rooms in Oriel College,  Oxford, singing noisily with Arnold Fitzgerald of Oriel. 'Late in the evening I went to Harter's rooms in Oriel where I found Groves preparing to be  ploughed on the morrow & Fitz & Wilde who were very noisy about the "Villa Bayheu" &c. (J.E.C. Bodley’s diary, Bodleian Library).   [PV]

1875

07

06

J.E.C. Bodley, who has been watching the Commemoration Procession of Boats, meets Wilde in Christ Church Meadow. [PV]

1875

16-2

06

(between) Wilde visits Padua.

1875

15

06

Wilde in Florence; writes 'San Miniato'.

1875

22

06

Wilde in Milan with Mahaffy.

1875

23

06

Wilde in Milan.

1875

24

06

Wilde in Milan.

1875

26

06

Wilde arrives in Lausanne.

1875

 

10

At Magdalen College, Oxford, Wilde moves into the two-room set designated 'Cloisters VIII, Ground Floor Right' (Rooms Register, Magdalen Archives). [PV]

1875

31

10

Wilde and Bodley breakfast at the Mitre and go on to Wilde's rooms.

1875

23

11

Wilde at the dedication by Cardinal Manning of S. Aloysius, Oxford.

1875

04

12

J. E.C. Bodley and Arnold Fitzgerald call on Wilde at Magdalen' (J.E.C.  Bodley's diary, Bodleian Library).  [PV]

1876

22

 

Wilde visits Blenheim Palace in a party of 24 made up of 12 Magdalen men and their  relatives.  The nineteen-month-old Winston Churchill is in the nursery upstairs.  At the  picnic lunch afterwards in a field outside Blenheim Park Wilde sets tongues wagging by  flirting with Gertrude Ward (Florence Ward's Oxford diary; Marian Fowler, Blenheim, 1989, p.68).   [PV]

1876

19

04

Death of Sir William Wilde.

1876

22

04

Funeral of Sir William Wilde at Mount St Jerome, Dublin.

1876

04

06

Lord Ronald Sutherland-Gower and Frank Miles visit Wilde in his rooms at Magdalen (Cloisters VIII, Ground Floor Right). 'By early train to Oxford with F. Miles…There I made the acquaintance of young Oscar Wilde, a friend of Miles's.  A pleasant cheery fellow, but with his long-haired head full of nonsense about the Church of Rome.  His room filled with photographs of the Pope and of Cardinal Manning' (Gower, My Reminiscences, II, p.134).  [PV]

1876

16

06

'Terminal Examinations' at Magdalen College, Oxford. Wilde in the category 'Specially  Commended for Regularity and Diligence' for the first time.  [PV]

1876

21

06

Around 3.15 pm: Wilde is in a group of 23 Magdalen men and their relatives photographed  by Jules Guggenheim in the Magdalen Cloister Quadrangle.  The group includes William Ward, his mother and sisters Gertrude and Florence; Reginald Harding, his brother James, their sister Amy ('Miss Puss', 'the child Amy'), whom Wilde mentions in his letters., and their mother.  (The Oxford diary of Florence Ward,  Magdalen College Archives; Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde, 1987, Illustration 9). Wilde at a dinner-party for 11 given by William Ward in his rooms at Magdalen, later Wilde's rooms (Florence Ward's Oxford diary).  [PV]

1876

23

06

Wilde lunches with the Wards at their lodgings at 53 Broad Street, Oxford.  Wilde visits Radley College, near Abingdon, William Ward's old school, with the Wards and Henry Shuttleworth.  Wilde gives a dinner-party at Magdalen.  The Wards are among the guests. Wilde attends a private dance at the Alfred Masonic Lodge, Oxford.  Talks to Florence  Ward, who writes: 'I think Wilde found me very green and tried to puzzle me by asking me such questions as "whether I found the world very hollow?" etc.' (Florence Ward's Oxford diary).  [PV]

1876

25

06

Wilde and William Ward take Mrs Ward, Gertrude and Florence to see 'All Souls and  Worcester and a lot of colleges' (CL, p.17) .  [PV]

1876

27

06

Wilde rides to Abingdon with William Ward and they dine there (CL, p.17).  [PV]

1876

28

06

Wilde and William Ward have tea and lawn tennis at Radley College (CL, p 17).  [PV]

1876

29

06

Wilde dines with William Ward at the Mitre Hotel, High Street, Oxford (CL, p.17).  [PV]

1876

30

06

Wilde goes from Oxford to West Ashby, Horncastle, Lincolnshire, to stay with his uncle, the Revd John Maxwell Wilde (CL, p.17)  [PV]

1876

30

06

Wilde goes from Oxford to West Ashby, Horncastle, Lincolnshire, to stay with his uncle,  the Revd John Maxwell Wilde (CL, p.17).  [PV]

1876

02

07

Wilde attends morning and evening service at West Ashby church...'argued fiercely with my poor uncle, who revenged himself by preaching on Rome in the morning, and humility in the afternoon.  Both very "nasty ones" for me' (CL, p.18).  [PV]

1876

03

07

Wilde 'runs up' to London from West Ashby. He finds Frank Miles sketching 'the most lovely and dangerous woman in London -- Lady Desart'.

Evening: Wilde goes up to Magdalen College, Oxford, to read for his viva voce exam for Classical Honour Moderations (CL, p.19).  [PV]

1876

04

07

Wilde has got the date of his viva wrong.  At 10 a.m. he is 'lying in bed…with Swinburne (a copy of)' when he is woken by the Clerk of the Schoolsarriving to find out why he has not come for his exams. 'About one o’clock'he 'nips up' to the Schools (next to the Bodleian Library) and is 'ploughedimmediately in Divinity' for barefaced, if witty, insolence to Dr Spooner.  In Moderations he gets 'a delightful exam from a delightful man', who would have been one of these College Fellows: W. Lock, Corpus Christi; D. B. Monro, Balliol, later Provost of Oriel; A. O. Prickard, New College; J. Wood, Balliol (CL, pp. 20,21; Oxford Honours).  [PV]

1876

05

07

Evening, 7 p.m.: the Classical Honour Moderations class list is posted at the Schools. As Wilde is going up the High Street with 'the B.C.'s [?]'to dine with Nichols' at Christ Church he is told the list is out but refuses to go and see it, claiming he knows he has a First, swaggering 'horribly' and making all the others 'very ill, absolutely'.  [PV]

1876

06

07

Noon: 'breakfasting' at the Mitre Hotel, High Street, Wilde reads the Mods class list in The Times and finds he has indeed got a First. 'My poor mother is in great delight and I was overwhelmed with telegrams on Thursday from everyone I know' (CL, pp.20, 21).  [PV]

1876

07

07

Wilde goes to London and stays at 4 Albert Street, SW, the lodgings of Charles Harrison 'Julia' Tindal, Magdalen undergraduate reading law 1874-77 (CL,pp. 20, 21).  [PV]

1876

08

07

'Young Stewy' dines with Wilde and Tindal - and possibly the Peyton brothers (CL, p. 69).  [PV]

1876

09

07

Wilde hears Cardinal Manning preach at the Church of Our Lady of Victories, South Kensington, the Pro-Cathedral. Wilde visits London Zoo with Tindal, Algernon Peyton, heir to a baronetcy, Magdalen undergraduate 1873-75, and his brother Thomas, Magdalen undergraduate 1875-79 (CL, p.21).  [PV]

1876

10

07

Wilde goes from London to Bingham Rectory, Nottinghamshire, to stay with Frank Miles's family (CL, p.21).  [PV]

1876

17

07

Wilde leaves Bingham Rectory (CL, p.22).  [PV]

1876

25

07

In Grafton Street, Dublin, Wilde happens to meet the Revd John Rigaud, Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and his brother Major-General Gibbes Rigaud (CL, p.24).  [PV]

1876

17 & 20  (between)

07

Wilde goes home to Dublin (CL, pp.22, 23). [PV]

1876

 

08

Wilde at Moytura with Frank Miles.

1876

14

12

Wilde at the Albert Hall for a performance of Haydn's 'Creation'.

1876

15

12

Wilde & David Hunter Blair see Ellen Terry in 'New Men and Old Acres' at the Court Theatre.

1876

16

12

Wilde goes to see Henry Irving in 'Macbeth' with Arthur Dampier May.

1876

17

12

Wilde leaves for Ireland.

1877

 

01

At Magdalen College, Oxford, Wilde moves into the three-room set designated' Kitchen Stairs 1 pair left', now one very large room known as 'The Oscar Wilde Room'  (Rooms Register, Magdalen Archives).  [PV]

1877

03

03

Wilde visits the Royal Academy.

1877

05

03

Wilde enters for the 'Ireland' Scholarship.

1877

14c

03

Wilde has tea with Frank Miles to meet Lord Ronald Gower and Constance Duchess of Westminster.

1877

31

03

Wilde enters Ravenna on his way to Greece (CL, p.71).  [PV]

1877

 

04

Wilde returns from Greece with Mahaffy viâ Rome.

1877

01

04

Wilde leaves Brindisi.

1877

02

04

From Corfu Wilde writes to the Revd H. R. Bramley, Senior Dean of Arts at Magdalen College, Oxford, saying that he is afraid he 'will not be able to be back for the beginning of term [4 April]. I hope you will not mind if I miss ten days… . We expect to be in Athens by the 17th and I will post back to Oxford immediately'.

From Corfu Wilde writes a postcard to Reginald Harding telling him that he has come to Greece, not Rome as he had planned, but  'I will take Rome on my way back' (CL, p.44, 45). [PV]

1877

26

04

The Easter Term at Oxford started on 4th April 1877 and on 26th April, when Wilde is still absent without permission after three weeks, the Magdalen Officers meet and 'resolve' that he shall be 'rusticated' [suspended] for the rest of the academic year and fined half a year's Demyship [scholarship]money; and that if he does not return punctually in October 'with an amount of work prescribed by his Tutor satisfactorily prepared, the Officers will consider whether he shall retain his Demyship' (President Bulley's 'President's Note-Book, Magdalen Archives).  [PV]

1877

30

04

Wilde at inaugural reception of the Grosvenor Gallery, wearing a coat that from behind  resembled a 'cello.

1877

01

05

Wilde at the official opening of the Grosvenor Gallery.

1877

04

05

Wilde's fine: the Magdalen Officers rule that 'the Order of 26th April be maintained with the proviso that half the fine shall be remitted, if in October the work prescribed by his Tutor be satisfactorily prepared'(President Bulley's 'President's Note-Book', Magdalen Archives). [PV]

1877

08

05

Wilde travels from London to Oxford to attend the 'anniversary festival' of the Churchill Masonic Lodge. He is 'appointed and invested' one of the Lodge's new officers, Junior Deacon, and J.E.C. Bodley is likewise made one of the two Directors of Ceremonies (local newspapers; Peter Vernier, 'Oscar's "Mental Photograph" Revisited', The Wildean 15, July 1999). [PV]

1877

11

05

Wilde arrives back in Dublin (CL, p.47; Peter Vernier, Oscar's "Mental Photograph" Revisited', The Wildean 15, July 1999). [PV]

1877

15

05

Mr Gladstone writes to Wilde.

1877

09

06

Wilde dines with Henry Wilson.

1877

13

06

Death of Henry Wilson (Wilde), æt.39, of pneumonia.

 Was the cause of death mentioned?  A severe chill, it seems.

1877

 

07

Publication of Wilde's 'The Tomb of Keats' in The Irish Monthly.

1877

14

07

From his house in Bradmore Road, Oxford, Walter Pater writes in reply to Wilde’s sending him a copy of The Dublin University Magazine containing his first published prose work, a review of the exhibition at the new Grosvenor Gallery in London. Pater bestows, in Wilde’s words, 'such sympathetic praise' and writes: 'I hope you will give me an early call on your return to Oxford'.  [PV]

1877

 

08

Wilde goes to Clonfin House, Granard to shoot.

1877

15

10

The Magdalen Officers 'resolve': 'That the Officers having considered the reasons given by Mr. Wilde for not having prepared the work assigned by his Tutor in accordance with the Orders are so far satisfied that they will inflict no further penalty than that already imposed, of the loss of the emoluments of his Demyship for the half-year ending Michaelmas 1877'(President Bulley's 'President's Note-Book', Magdalen Archives). [PV]

1877

29

10

Mr Gladstone writes to Lady Wilde.

1877

29

12

Publication of Wilde's article on Henry O'Neill anonymously in Saunders' Newsletter, Dublin (but 29.12.1878 is also given).

1878

01

05

Wilde as Prince Rupert at Mrs George Morrell's fancy dress ball, Headington Hill Hall.  On or around this date Jules Guggenheim photographs Wilde as Prince Rupert with his Magdalen friend J. H. T. Wharton standing beside him as Sir Walter Raleigh (The Oxford and Cambridge Undergraduate's Journal, 2nd May 1878; Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde, 1987, Illustration 11; Merlin Holland, The Wilde Album, 1997, p. 51; CL,p 38).  [PV]

1878

01

06

Wilde starts the written exams for 'Greats' (The Oxford University Gazette; R.F. Horton,  An Autobiography, 1917).  [PV]

1878

10

06

Wilde wins the Newdigate Prize with 'Ravenna'.

1878

15

06

Wilde gives a dinner at Magdalen for Julia Constance Fletcher, author of Mirage and The  Nile Novel, and her stepfather. Invites A. H. Sayce to join them (CL, p 68).  [PV]

1878

21

06

'Terminal Examinations' at Magdalen College. Wilde in the category 'Specially Commended for Regularity and Diligence' for only the second time.  At the 'Terminal Examinations' Wilde is presented with the marble bust of the young  Augustus bequeathed to the College by Dr Daubney to be given to the first Magdalen undergraduate to win the Newdigate after Daubney's death (President Bulley's 'President's  Note-Book').  [PV]

1878

24

06

Wilde attends the University Ball in the Corn Exchange, Oxford, with his brother Willie  (guest list in local newspapers).  [PV]

1878

25

06

Wilde attends the Freemasons' Ball in the Corn Exchange, Oxford, with his brother Willie  (guest list in local newspapers).  Wilde photographed in academic dress standing behind a seated lady who is most likely his mother in a huge group.  [PV]

1878

26

06

Wilde recites Ravenna in the Sheldonian.  Ravenna published by Thomas Shrimpton & Son, Broad Street, Oxford.  Wilde photographed in academic dress standing behind a seated lady who is most likely his mother in a huge Encaenia day group in the Magdalen  College Cloister Quadrangle (Peter Vernier '"Newdigate" Photographs of Oscar Wilde',  The Wildean 10, January 1997). Wilde attends the Christ Church Ball in the Corn Exchange, Oxford, with his brother Willie (guest list in local newspapers).  [PV]

1878

15

07

'Ravenna' published by Thos. Shrimpton & Sons, Oxford. [RW]

1878

19

07

Wilde's First in Literae Humaniores ('Greats') is announced. [PV]

1878

22

07

Gaudy Dinner at Magdalen College, Oxford. Wilde, the College's first Newdigate Prize-winner for more than half a century, with top Firsts in ‘Mods' and 'Greats', has been invited to the Gaudy. The Gaudy speech at the dinner is made by Herbert Warren, Probationer Fellow (and next President of Magdalen, 1885-1928). Wilde to William Ward: 'They made me stay up for the Gaudy and said nice things about me' (President Bulley’s 'President’s Note-Book', Magdalen Archives; CL, p.70).  [PV]

1878

23 (prob)

07

Wilde to William Ward: 'Then I rowed to Pangbourne with Frank Miles in a birchbark canoe! And shot rapids and did wonders everywhere – it was delightful' (CL, p.70).  [PV]

1878

08, 11, 12 

07

Hearings in a law suit concerning some house property that Wilde has inherited from his father take place in Dublin.  Wilde is not present (CL, p.69).  [PV]

1878

 

09

Publication of Augustus Moore's 'To Oscar Wilde, author of Ravenna' in The Irish Monthly.

1878

 

10

At Oxford Wilde moves into lodgings--rooms above a chemist's shop at 71 High Street (Oxford University lodgings records, Bodleian Library; Oxford City Directories).  [PV]

1878

28

11

Wilde takes his B.A. at Oxford.

1878

17

12

End of Michaelmas Term at Oxford

1878

29

12

Publication of Wilde's article on Henry O'Neill in Saunders’ Newsletter, Dublin (but see 29.12.1877 as alternative).

1879

 

 

Wilde visits Oscar Browning in Cambridge.

05 1874

01

05

Birth of Romaine Goddard (Romaine Brooks).

1879

07

05

Lady Wilde gives up 1 Merrion Square.

1879

 

06

Publication of Wilde's poem 'Easter Day' in 'Waifs and Strays' (ed. Harold Boulton) no. 1.

1879

01

06

Death of The Prince Imperial (inspiring a poem by Wilde).

1879

02

06

Wilde present at the opening of the Comédie Française London season at the Gaiety  Theatre (to 12th July).

1879

11

06

Wilde publishes 'To Sarah Bernhardt' in 'The World'.

1879

 

07

Wilde in Belgium with Rennell Rodd.

1879

16

07

Wilde publishes 'Queen Henrietta Maria' in The World.

1879

 

08

Wilde visits the Sickert family in Dieppe.

1880

04

02

First cartoon of Wilde by George du Maurier appears in Punch.

1880

04

02

Wilde one of 350 guests (all men) at Irving's party at the Lyceum.

1880

08

05

Death of Gustave Flaubert.

1880

 

08

Wilde moves with Frank Miles to Keats House, Tite Street, Chelsea.

1880

25

08

Publication of Wilde's sonnet 'Ave Imperatrix' in The World.

1880

 

09

Wilde's 'Vera' published by Ranken & Co.

1880

25

09

Wilde's 'Pan, A Villanelle' published in 'Pan'.

1880

10

11

Publication of Wilde's 'Libertatis Sacra Fames' in the 'New York World'.

1881

31

01

Opening night of the Tennyson's play 'The Cup' at the Lyceum, where Florence Balcombe begins her acting career with a small part alongside Henry Irving and Ellen Terry. Wilde attends the performance and sends some flowers to his former beloved.  [DG]

1881

c28

02

Edmund Gosse meets Wilde at a masked party at Alma-Tadema's, Wilde not masked.

1881

02

03

Wilde's 'Impression du matin' published in The World.

1881

13

03

Assassination of Tsar Alexander II.

1881

19

04

Death of Disraeli.

1881

23

04

Wilde at first night of 'Patience' at the Opéra Comique.

1881

23

04

Wilde's 'Impressions' published in 'Pan'.

1881

25

04

Wilde at the first night of the revival of Sheridan Knowles's 'Virginius', Theatre Royal,  Drury Lane.

1881

29

04

Wilde at the General Private View for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, painted by Frith.

1881

02

05

Wilde at first night of 'Othello'.

1881

17

05

Wilde signs the contract with David Bogue for the publication of his poems.

1881

25

05

Birth of Robert Vansittart.

1881

30

06

Publication of Wilde's 'Poems'.

1881

26

07

Mr Gladstone writes to Wilde.

1881

03

08

Mr Gladstone encounters Wilde at the studio of Burne-Jones.

1881

30

09

Wilde receives telegram from Colonel Morse suggesting the U.S. lecture tour.

1881

01

10

Wilde sends telegram to Colonel Morse accepting the U.S. lecture tour.

1881

30

11

Wilde withdraws 'Vera' from production.

1881

17

12

Wilde's 'Vera' due, but fails, to open at the Adelphi Theatre with Mrs Bernard Beere in the title rôle.

1881

23c

12

Wilde dines at 'one of the taverns of Bohemia' with Whistler and Rennell Rodd 'just before' leaving for America.

1881

24

12

Wilde embarks for America on the Guion Line's Arizona.

1882

24

03

Death of Longfellow.

1882

 

04

Publication of Rose Leaf and Apple Leaf by Rennell Rodd, with an Introduction by Oscar  Wilde. London: J.M. Stoddart & Co.

1882

10

04

Death of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

1882

27

04

Death of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

1882

02

06

Wilde lectures at the Globe Theatre, Boston.

1882

29

06

Death of James Aloysius Hansom.

I'll take a hansom. There is nothing in the world so respectable as a good Shrewsbury and Talbot.

1882

 

08

Bankruptcy of David Bogue, Wilde's publisher.

1882

22

10

Wilde gives an interview to the New York World.

1882

06

11

Wilde at first night of Tom Taylor's 'An Unequal Match', Wallack's Theatre, New York.

1882

07

11

Publication of Wilde's 'Mrs Langtry as Hester Grazebrook' in the 'New York World'.

1882

27

11

Wilde leaves America on the S.S. Bothnia from New York.

1882

04

12

First mention of Wilde in Sweden, in 'The Göteborg Newspaper'.

1883

 

 

Wilde begins 'The Duchess of Padua'.

1883

 

01

Wilde in Paris, first at the  Hôtel Continental and then at the Hôtel Voltaire [till ?May] and is visited by Sickert.

1883

 

02

Sickert meets Wilde.

1883

15

03

Wilde sends MS of 'The Duchess of Padua' to Mary Anderson.

1883

 

04

Wilde meets Robert Sherard 'at the house of a Greek lady'.

1883

 

04

Wilde meets Robert Sherard 'at a dinner-party at which I was also first introduced to Paul  Bourget and John Sargent'.

1883

21

04

Wilde meets Edmond de Goncourt.

1883

30

04

Death of Manet.

1883

 

05

Walter Sickert a guest of Wilde at the Hôtel Voltaire.

1883

05

05

Wilde dines with Edmond de Goncourt and Giuseppe de Nittis.

1883

05

05

Death of Eva Gonzalès.

1883

15

05

Death of Madame Mohl.

1883

20

06

Wilde at a poetry recital in London.

1883

30

06

Wilde lectures to the Royal Academy arts students at their club in Golden Square, Westminster.

1883

 

07

Wilde lectures on America at the Prince's Hall, Piccadilly.

1883

10

07

London. Wilde lectures in Prince's Hall, Piccadilly, on 'Personal Impressions of America' for the first time (CL, p. 21; Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde, 1987, pp. 225-6).  [PV]

1883

20

07

Wilde at a poetry recital. Also present Lady Wilde, Matthew Arnold, Robert Browning, Mary Endicott.

1883

26

07

Margate. 3.30 p.m.: Wilde lectures at the Cliftonville Hotel on 'Personal Impressions of America'.  His notes for this lecture on Cliftonville Hotel paper were sold at Sotheby's on 19th July 1993, Lot 286.

Ramsgate. 8 p.m.: Wilde lectures on 'Personal Impressions of America' (advertisement and ‘trailer’ article for both lectures in Keble's Gazette, 21st July 1883). [PV]

1883

01

08

Wilde lectures at the Winter Gardens, Southport on 'Personal Impressions of America' (Donald Mead, ‘Personal Impressions of America: Oscar Wilde at Southport', The Wildean 16, January 2000) . [PV]

1883

02

08

Wilde sails for New York on board RMS Britannia.

1883

11

08

Wilde arrives in New York.

1883

20

08

Wilde at production of Vera (Union Square Theatre, New York).

1883

24

09

Wilde begins lecture tour in England, lasting on and off all year.

1883

11

10

Wilde among those who see Irving and Ellen Terry off to the  USA on the Britannic for their first American tour.

1883

20

11

Wilde gives a lecture on poetry in Dublin.

1883

22

11

Wilde lectures on 'The House Beautiful' and 'Personal Impressions of America' in Dublin.

1883

26

11

Wilde and Constance become engaged.

1883

10

12

Wilde lectures at the Claughton Music Hall, Birkenhead; Robert Le Gallienne in the audience.

1883

23

12

Whistler gives a breakfast party for Wilde and Constance; Lord and Lady Garmoyle also present.

1884

21

01

Wilde lectures at Firth College, Sheffield on 'The House Beautiful (CL, p.224). [PV]

1884

23

01

8 p.m.: Wilde lectures in the Queen Street Assembly Rooms, Huddersfield on 'The House Beautiful' (Geoff Dibb, 'Oscar Wilde's Lectures in West Yorkshire, The Wildean 3 nd).  [PV]

1884

26

01

8 p.m.: Wilde lectures at the Dean Clough Institute, Halifax on The House Beautiful' (Geoff Dibb, 'Oscar Wilde's Lectures in West Yorkshire, The Wildean 3 nd). [PV]

1884

31

01

Afternoon: Wilde lectures in the Grand Saloon of the York Fine Art and Industry Exhibition Hall on 'The House Beautiful'.

Evening: Wilde lectures in the Grand Saloon of the York Fine Art and Industry Exhibition Hall on 'Personal Impressions of America' (Geoff Dibb, 'Oscar Wilde in York', The Wildean 13, July 1998).  [PV]

1884

01

02

Wilde lectures on 'Personal Impressions of America', Londesborough Theatre, Scarborough (stayed at Pavilion Hotel, Westborough).  [GD]

1884

04

02

Wilde lectures on '"The House Beautiful" with special reference to Women's Work in House Decoration', Mechanics' Hall, Darlington. [GD]

1884

11

02

Wilde lectures on 'Personal Impressions of America' (afternoon) and 'The House Beautiful' (evening), Albert Hall, Mechanics' Institute, Leeds.

1884

13

02

Wilde lectures on 'Personal Impressions of America', Public Hall, Cockermouth.

1884

14

02

Wilde lectures on 'Personal Impressions of America', Mechanics' Institute, Bradford.

1884

16

02

Evening: Wilde lectures in the Victoria Hall, Sunderland,  on 'The House Beautiful' (local newspaper). [PV]

1884

17

02

Wilde lectures in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. (CL, p 245). [PV]

1884

18

02

Wilde lectures on 'The House Beautiful', County Hall, Carlisle.

1884

22

02

Wilde lectures on 'The House Beautiful', Temperance Hall, Ulverston.

1884

23

02

Wilde lectures in the Victoria Hall, Sunderland on 'Personal Impressions of America' (local newspaper).  [PV]

1884

04?

03

Wilde lectures on 'The House Beautiful', Bijou Theatre, St Leonard's.

1884

29

05

WEDDING OF OSCAR WILDE AND CONSTANCE LLOYD at St James', Sussex Gardens,  London.

1884

29

05

The Wildes honeymoon at the Hôtel Wagram, rue de Rivoli, and in Dieppe [to 24th June].

1884

04

06

Wilde and Constance give a dinner party.

1884

09

06

Wilde gives an interview to the Morning News in which he discusses Sarah Bernhardt's 'Macbeth'.

1884

24

06

The Wildes return from honeymoon.

1884

25

06

Wilde and Constance go to the theatre with Mme Gabrielli.

1884

19

07

Wilde and Constance at first night of 'Twelfth Night'  (Irving, Ellen Terry, Rose Leclercq).

1884

30

07

Wilde at one of  Lady Archie Campbell's Open Air concerts. [AJ]

1884

30

07

Death of Charles Hawtrey.

1884

14

10

Publication of Wilde's 'Woman's Dress' in The Pall Mall Gazette.

1884

 

11

Wilde's last visit to Ireland. Stays in Dublin at the Shelbourne Hotel.

1884?

 

11

Wilde and Constance visit Oscar Browning in Cambridge.

1885

01

01

The Wildes move to 16 Tite Street, Chelsea.

1885

05

01

Dublin. Afternoon: Wilde lectures in the Gaiety Theatre on 'Dress'(CL, p.244).  [PV]

1885

06

01

Dublin. Afternoon: Wilde lectures in the Gaiety Theatre on 'The Value of Art in Modern Life' (CL, p 244).  [PV].

1885

08

01

Wilde probably present at Sidney Webb's lecture, Kelmscott House, on 'The Irish National Movement and its bearing on Socialism'.

1885

18

01

Wilde lectures at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. (CL, p. 245) [PV]

1885

19

01

Evening: Wilde lectures in the New Assembly Hall, Sunderland on 'Dress'(local newspaper).  [PV]

1885

20

02

Wilde attends Whistler's 'Ten o'clock Lecture' at Prince's Hall.

1885

21

02

Publication of Wilde's 'Mr Whistler's Ten o'clock' in The Pall Mall Gazette.

1885

28

02

Publication of Wilde's 'The Relation of Dress to Art' in The Pall Mall Gazette.

1885

07

03

Publication of Wilde's 'Dinners and Dishes' in The Pall Mall Gazette.

1885

14

03

Publication of Wilde's 'Shakespeare on Scenery' in 'The Dramatic Review'.

1885

15

03

'Saw Oscar Wilde and his wife just going into the Fine Arts to see the Holman Hunt.  He is a rather fine looking gentleman, but inclined to stoutness.  The lady was strangely dressed.' [Diary of Beatrix Potter]

1885

 

05

The Wildes at a party of Sir Morell Mackenzie.

1885

09

05

Publication of Wilde's 'Hamlet at the Lyceum' in The Dramatic Review.  (This production, with Irving as Hamlet, had opened on the 2nd. [RW]

1885

22

05

Death of Victor Hugo.

1885

23

05

Publication of Wilde's 'Henry V at Oxford' in The Dramatic Review, mentioning having seen it 'the week before ' [RW]

1885

30

05

Wilde reviews Ellen Terry in 'Olivia' in the Dramatic Review.

The first night of this revival was 27th May, which he can be assumed to have attended. [RW]

1885

 

06

Publication of Wilde's poem 'Roses and Rue' in 'Society'.

1885

05

06

Birth of Cyril Wilde.

1885

06

06

Wilde reviews an amateur performance of 'As You Like It' at Coombe House in the Dramatic Review, mentioning having seen it the week before. [RW]

1885

06

08

The Labouchère Amendment (Clause XI of the Criminal Law Amendment Act, sometimes referred to as Clause 2 through the mistaken identification of the Arabic numeral ll with the Roman II).

1885

18

11

Publication of Wilde's 'A Handbook to Marriage' in 'The Pall Mall Gazette'.

1885

16

12

Publication of Wilde's 'Aristotle at Afternoon Tea' in The Pall Mall Gazette.

1886

16

02

Wilde attends a performance of 'Twelfth Night' in Oxford. [RW]

1886

20

02

Wilde reviews 'Twelfth Night' at Oxford in the Dramatic Review.[RW]

1886

28

04

Wilde and Constance at a political conversazione at the Hancocks'.

1886

 

05

Publication of Wilde's review 'A Fire at Sea (from the French of Ivan Tourgenieff)',  Macmillan's Magazine.

1886

07

05

Wilde attends a private performance of 'The Cenci' at the Grand, Islington. [RW]

1886

15

05

Wilde reviews the performance of 'The Cenci' in the Dramatic Review. [RW]

1886

22

05

Wilde reviews 'Helena in Troas' in the Dramatic Review. (This opened at Hengler's Circus on 17th May, and he can be assumed to have attended the first night. [RW]

1886

 

07

Publication of Wilde's 'Keats's 'Sonnet on Blue'' in the Century Guild Hobby Horse.

1886

09

09

Publication of Wilde’s 'Balzac in English' in 'The Pall Mall Gazette'.

1886

09

09

Wilde meets Bernard Shaw at J.F. Molloy's house, Red Lion Square, London.

1886

20

09

Publication of Wilde’s 'Ben Jonson' in The Pall Mall Gazette.

1886

18

11

Publication of Wilde's 'A "Jolly" Art Critic' in 'The Pall Mall Gazette'.

1886

24

11

Wilde lectures on Chatterton at Birkbeck College, London.

1887

23

03

Publication of Wilde's 'The American Invasion' in 'Court & Society Review'.

1887

28

03

Publication of Wilde's 'Great Writers by Little Men' in The Pall Mall Gazette.

1887

13

04

Wilde proposes meeting Alsagar Vian for dinner at Pagani's the following Friday.

1887

18

04

Publication of Wilde's 'A Cheap Edition of a Great Man' in The Pall Mall Gazette.

1887

02

05

Publication of Wilde's 'Injury & Insult' in The Pall Mall Gazette.

1887

18

05

Wilde begins editorship of Woman's World.

1887

30

05

Publication of Wilde's 'From the Poets' Corner' in 'The Pall Mall Gazette'.

1887

11

06

Publication of Wilde's 'Mr Pater's Imaginary Portraits' in 'The Pall Mall Gazette'.

1887

13

07

Wilde & Constance give a party at Tite Street.

1887

17

07

Wilde elected a Fellow of the Society of Authors.

1887

23

07

Wilde and Constance at the Irving benefit, Lyceum Theatre.

1887

27

09

Publication of Wilde's 'Two Biographies of Keats' in 'The Pall Mall Gazette'.

1887

14

11

Wilde attends magistrate's court hearing of Cunninghame Graham and John Burns, arrested on Bloody Sunday. Haldane, Asquith and Mrs Pankhurst also present.

1887

 

12

Gissing attends a lecture on art by Wilde.

1888

20

01

Publication of Wilde's 'From the Poets' Corner' in 'The Pall Mall Gazette'.

1888

15

02

Publication of Wilde's 'From the Poets' Corner' in The Pall Mall Gazette.

1888

06

03

Death of Louisa May Alcott.

1888

 

04

Wilde visited at 'Woman's World' offices by Edith Somerville.

1888

15

04

Death of Matthew Arnold

1888

09

06

Theatrical Dinner at the Garrick Club - possible attendance by Wilde?

1888

14

07

Mr Gladstone writes to Wilde.

1888

21

07

Death of Mary Atkinson née Hemphill grandmother of Constance Wilde.

1888

25

07

Wilde at the Society of Authors' Dinner for visiting American writers,  Criterion Restaurant. He sits next to Lady Colin Campbell, and this was not a successful placement.

1888

25

07

Yeats visits Lady Wilde for the first time.

1888

02

08

Wedding  of Adrian Hope and Laura Troubridge, eventual guardians of the young Wildes.

1888

11

08

Wedding of Whistler and Beatrix Godwin.

1888

 

09

Yeats meets Wilde at the house of W.E. Henley.

1888

 

10

Wilde proposed but not accepted for the Savile Club.

1888

 

11

Ill-mannered exchange between Whistler and Wilde in 'The World'.

1888

01

11

Mr Gladstone writes to Wilde.

1888

06

11

Wilde lectures at the Somerville Club for the Rational Dress Society.

1888

08

12

Publication of Wilde's 'English Poetesses' in 'Queen'.

1888

11

12

Publication of Wilde's 'Sir Edwin Arnold's Last Volume' in 'The Pall Mall Gazette'.

1888

25

12

Yeats keeps Christmas with the Wildes.

1889

26

01

Publication of Wilde's 'The New President' in The Pall Mall Gazette.

1889

 

02

The Wildes entertain Boucicault.

1889

 

02

Publication of Wilde's 'Some Literary Notes' in 'Woman's World'.

1889

03

02

Dowson has suggested to Jean Thorel that he send Wilde a copy of 'La Complainte Humaine'.

1889

05

02

Wilde present at Shaw's lecture to the Church & Stage Guild on 'Acting, by one who does not believe in it'.

1889

08

03

Robert Ross is set upon by six undergraduates and thrown into the fountain of King's College.  Very distressed, Robbie has a minor nervous breakdown and leaves Cambridge.  [DG]

1889

30

03

Publication of Wilde's 'The Birthday of the Infanta' as 'The Birthday of the Little Princess' in French and English in Paris Illustré.

1889

30

04

Death of Carl Rosa in Paris.

1889

27

05

Wilde at a reception given by the Attorney-General, Sir Charles Russell QC (later Lord Russell of Killowen).

1889

 

08

Ricketts & Shannon publish The Dial and send a complimentary copy to Wilde.

1889

27

09

Wilde attends Wilkie Collins' funeral

1889

 

10

Wilde gives up the editorship of 'Woman's World'.

1889

 

10

Publication of Constance Wilde's 'There Was Once'.

1889

16

11

Yeats visits Lady Wilde.

1889

 

12

Wilde attends the thought reading session of Dr Onofroff.

1889

 

12

Conversation between Yeats and Wilde.

1889

17

12

Wilde attends inaugural dinner for 'The Speaker', a new weekly.

1889

19

12

First night of Frank Benson's 'Midsummer Night's Dream', Wilde 'a frequent visitor'.

1890

08

02

Publication of Wilde's review of 'Chuang Tzu: Mystic, Moralist and Social Reformer' in  'The Speaker'.

1890

12

03

Publication of Wilde's 'Mr Pater's Appreciations' in 'The Speaker'.

1890

24

05

Lady Wilde awarded a civil list pension of £70/-/- a year.

1890

20

06

Publication of Wilde's 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' in 'Lippincott's Magazine'.

1890

 

07

Wilde calls at the Gazette offices and protests to S.H. Jeyes about his review of Dorian Gray.

1890

 

07

Wilde calls at the Whitefriars Club; has long talk about Dorian Gray with Sidney Low.

1890

08

07

Society of Authors Annual Dinner, Criterion Restaurant: Wilde present.

1891

 

01

William Morris meets Wilde at the Richmonds.

1891

 

01

Wilde meets Lady Blanche Hozier.

1891

 

01

Publication of Wilde's 'London Models' in The English Illustrated Magazine.

1891

 

01

Wilde and Constance at first night of 'Macbeth' (Irving, Ellen Terry).

1891

 

01

Wilde meets Lord Alfred Douglas for the first time.

1891

 

01

Rhymers' Poetry reading at Herbert Horne's. Wilde there with John Gray.

1891

 

01

Sherard sees 'much' of Wilde in London.

1891

 

02

Wilde at a meeting of the Rhymers' Club at 20 Fitzroy Street.

1891

24

02

First visit by Wilde to a Mallarmé 'Mardi'.

1891

03

03

Wilde visits Mallarmé.

1891

11

03

Wilde in Paris to meet Zola.

1891

 

04

Publication of The Picture of Dorian Gray in book form.

1891

24

04

Wilde sees 'Hedda Gabler' at the Vaudeville Theatre, 2.30.

1891

04

05

Traditional date of the death of Holmes and Moriarty in the Reichenbach Falls.

1891

10

05

Wilde, Constance Wilde and Edward and Georgiana Burne-Jones dine with the Ranee of Sarawak.

1891

04

07

Wilde at the Crabbet Club.

1891

05

07

Wilde at the Crabbet Club.

1891

09

10

Wilde at first night of Zola's 'Thérèse Raquin' at the Royalty  Theatre.

1891

16

10

Wilde lunches with William Heinemann.

1891

17

10

The musical comedy 'La Cigale' achieved its first anniversary at the Savoy, and a Birthday Celebration was held at the theatre.  Arthur Bryan covered a whole page (No. 176) in the 17th October issue of the broadsheet Sporting and Dramatic News with caricatures of the guests.  Wilde appears prominently among them. [RW]

1891

27

10

Wilde breakfasts with Wilfrid Blunt, George Curzon and Willy Peel in Paris.

1891

 

11

Wilde in Paris (19 boulevard des Capucines), writing 'Salome'.

1891

 

11

Wilde visits Lord Lytton several times at the British Embassy.

1891

02

11

Wilde lunches at the British Embassy.

1891

03

11

Visit by Wilde to a Mallarmé 'Mardi'.

1891

26

11

First meeting of Wilde and Gide?

1891

28

11

Second meeting of Wilde and Gide, chez Heredia.

1891

29

11

First meeting between Wilde and Pierre Loüys.  Third meeting of Wilde and Gide.

1891

30

11

Fourth meeting of Wilde and Gide.

1891

02

12

Fifth meeting of Wilde and Gide. Dinner at Stuart Merrill's.

1891

03

12

Sixth meeting of Wilde and Gide.  Dinner at Aristide Bruant's with Marcel Schwob.

1891

06

12

Seventh meeting of Wilde and Gide, chez Princess Ouroussof.

1891

07

12

Eighth meeting of Wilde and Gide. Dinner at Marcel Schwob's.

1891

08

12

Ninth meeting of Wilde and Gide. Dinner at Aristide Bruant's.

1891

11

12

Tenth meeting of Wilde and Gide.

1891

12

12

Eleventh meeting of Wilde and Gide.

1891

13

12

Twelfth meeting of Wilde and Gide, chez Princess Ouroussof, with Henri de Régnier.

1891

15

12

Thirteenth meeting of Wilde and Gide plus Marcel Schwob.

1891

17

12

Wilde writes to Margot Asquith saying he had dedicated 'The Star Child' to her.

1891

17

12

Article on Wilde by Sherard (with contributions by Wilde!) appears in 'Le Gaulois'.

1892

 

02

Wilde chairs a public meeting.

1892

19

02

Wilde meets Graham Robertson.

1892

20

02

Wilde offends with Edward Shelley.   First performance of Lady Windermere's Fan at the Saint James's Theatre. [DG]

1892

21

02

Wilde calls on Coulson Kernahan, a.m. (possibly the 22nd).

1892

24

02

Wilde goes to dinner party at Philip Currie's.

1892

04

03

Wilde at first night of the triple bill 'Le Baiser' (Banville, tr. John Gray), 'A Visit' (Brandes),  'A Modern Idyll' (adapted by Arthur Symons from the novel by Frank Harris.

1892

17

03

Death of Emily Lloyd, aunt of Constance Wilde, leaving her £3000.

1892

07

04

Wilde lunches at a Paris restaurant.

1892

 

05

Death of James Ripley Osgood.

1892

 

05

Wilde meets Richard Le Gallienne in Piccadilly, the day after J.R. Osgood's death.

1892

17

05

Wilde has tea with Elizabeth Robins.

1892

19

05

First night of Brookfield's satire on Wilde 'The Poet & the Puppets' at the Comedy Theatre.  It runs for 40 performances.

1892

20

05

Wilde moves back to his mother's house.

1892

26

05

Wilde speaks at meeting of the Royal General Theatrical Fund.

1892

31

05

Society of Authors Annual Dinner, Holborn Restaurant: Wilde present.

1892

30

06

Wilde at the Lyric Club with George Ives.

1892

03

07

Wilde takes the cure at Homburg, staying at 51 Kaiser-Friedrich Promenade.

1892

31

07

Last night of Brookfield's 'The Poet & the Puppets', at the Comedy Theatre.

1892

 

08

Wilde writes A Woman of No Importance at Grove Farm, Felbrigg, near Cromer, Norfolk [to September].

1892

08

08

Edward Carson takes his seat in the House of Commons.

1892

 

09

Wilde at a house party given by Mrs Walter Palmer.

1892

 

11

The Wildes rent Babbacombe Cliff, near Torquay.

1892

18

11

Wilde first meets Fred Atkins’ at Little College Street.  Neil McKenna: The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde.  London: Century/Random House 2003 p.211.

1892

21

11

Wilde goes to Paris with Fred Atkins by the 2.45 Club Train.  Neil McKenna: The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde.  London: Century/Random House 2003 p.211.

1893

 

02

Wilde at a dinner party chez George Louis.

1893

 

02

Wilde meets Debussy.

1893

23

02

Wilde sends Shaw a copy of Salome (which Shaw appears not to have received).

1893

05

03

The Wildes leave Babbacombe.

1893

13

03

Alfred Taylor introduces Wilde to the Parkers.  Wilde offends with Charles Parker at the  Savoy Hotel.

1893

20?

03

Dowson sends Wilde a copy of 'The Pierrot of the Minute'.

1893

03

04

First night of Brookfield's satire on Wilde 'The Poet & the Puppets' at the Garden Theatre, New York.

1893

20

04

Wilde dines at the Albemarle Club with Lord Alfred Douglas, Max Beerbohm and Herbert  Tree.

1893

 

05

Wilde in Oxford.

1893

04

05

Pierre Louÿs publishes his sonnet 'Hyacinthe', inspired by a letterof
Wilde to Bosie, in The Spirit Lamp.  [DG]

1893

25

05

Wilde and Pierre Louÿs quarrel.

1893

 

06

Wilde at The Cottage, Goring-on-Thames.

1893

02

06

Society of Authors Dinner: Wilde present.

1893

03

08

Contract signed for the publication of 'The Portrait of Mr W.H.'

1893

16

08

Wilde at last night of A Woman of No Importance.

1893

07

09

Wilde stays the night in Jersey for a performance of A Woman of No Importance.

1893

20

09

First night of Henry Arthur Jones' 'The Tempter', but Wilde at the Alhambra with Lord Alfred Douglas.

1893

 

10

Wilde takes rooms at 10 and 11 St. James's Place and writes 'An Ideal Husband' there.

1893

15

10

Wilde dines at the Savoy with George Ives and (perhaps) Raffalovich and Sir Egbert Sebright.

1893

19

10

Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas are guests of George Ives.

1893

 

12

Wilde and Queensberry meet at the Café Royal.

1893

13

12

Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas dine with George Ives at the Albemarle Club.

1893

23

12

Wilde dines with George Ives at the New Travellers Club.

1894

13

01

Constance Wilde opens a 'fancy bazaar' for the Ferdinand Place Mission Schoolroom, Chalk Farm.

1894

 

04

Wilde takes Vyvyan to see 'Once upon a Time' at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket.

1894

01

04

Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas lunch at the Café Royal and are seen there by Queensberry. Queensberry writes threatening letter to Douglas, provoking the response 'What a very funny little man you are'.

1894

21

04

Wilde at first night of 'The Arms and the Man'.

1894

27

04

Wilde in Paris at the Hôtel des Deux Mondes with Bosie.

1894

28c

04

Wilde meets Marcel Proust.

1894

 

05

Wilde in Florence with Douglas.  Meets Mary Costello (Berenson) several times.

1894

 

05

Vyvyan Wilde goes to Hildersham House School, Broadstairs.

1894

 

05

Fourteenth meeting of Wilde and Gide, in Florence.

1894

26

05

Wilde taken by Mary Costello to have tea with Eugene Lee Hamilton and Vernon Lee.

1894

26c.

05

Wilde has tea with Walpurga Lady Paget in Florence.

1894

02

06

Goncourt discusses Wilde with Baronne Deslandes.

1894

18

06

Wilde at the wedding of Violet Maxse and Lord Edward Cecil.

1894

30

06

Death of Walter Pater.

1894

30

06

The Marquess of Queensberry bursts into Wilde's home in Tite Street, with a pugilist as bodyguard.  [DG]

1894

27

07

Meeting between Wilde and George Ives.

1894

 

08

Wilde begins writing The Importance of being Earnest at Worthing, andis joined by Lord Alfred Douglas.

1894

 

08

Wilde writes the scenario for 'Mr & Mrs Daventry' at Worthing.

1894

07

08

Wilde lunches at the Café Royal with Lord Alfred Douglas and Max Beerbohm.

1894

12

08

Alfred Taylor arrested in the police raid on 46 Fitzroy Street.

1894

 

09

Wilde finishes 'The Importance of being Earnest'.

1894

 

10

Wilde at Brighton with Lord Alfred Douglas.

1894

16

10

For his fortieth birthday, Oscar receives a vindictive letter from Douglas concluding with these words : 'When you are not on your pedestal, you are not interesting. The next time you are ill I will go away at once.' [DG]

1894

19

10

Death of Lord Drumlanrig.

1894

 

12

Publication of Wilde's 'Phrases & Philosophies for the Use of the Young' in 'The Chameleon'.

1894

25

12

Wilde attends rehearsal of 'An Ideal Husband'.

1895

26

 

Sherard visits Wilde in Wandsworth.

1895

 

01

Wilde and Carson meet in the Strand.

1895

04

01

Gilbert Burgess interviews Wilde for 'The Sketch'.

1895

17

01

Wilde visits Algiers with Lord Alfred Douglas.

1895

30

01

Fifteenth meeting of Wilde and Gide, in Algiers.

1895

31

01

Wilde returns from Algiers.  First night of 'An Ideal Husband' at the Theatre Royal,  Haymarket.  [DG]

1895

14

02

First night of The Importance of being Earnest.

1895

18

02

Lord Queensberry leaves his card for Wilde at the Albemarle Club :'To Oscar Wilde, posing as a somdomite' [or 'posing somdomite']. [DG]

1895

28

02

Wilde calls on Charles Ricketts and goes on to the Albemarle Club where he is handed Queensberry's card.

1895

01

03

Wilde obtains warrant for Queensberry's arrest.

1895

01

03

Death of Prince Richard Metternich.

1895

07

03

Wilde at 'The Importance' with Lord Alfred Douglas and Constance; Constance returns alone to Tite Street.

1895

13

03

Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas go to Monte Carlo for a week.

1895

25

03

Wilde visits the fortune teller Mrs Robinson.

1895

01

04

The Café Royal meeting between Wilde, Douglas, Frank Harris and Shaw. Wilde at 'The  Importance' with Lord Alfred Douglas and Constance, after dining together.

1895

05

04

Acquittal of Queensberry; Wilde consults Sir George Lewis; Wilde and Douglas lunch at the  Holborn Viaduct Hotel, where George Wyndham tries unsuccessfully to see them; then go  to the Cadogan Hotel, stopping en route at a bank where Wilde draws 'a considerable sum of money'.

Wilde arrested at the Cadogan Hotel, room 53.

1895

06

04

Wilde charged at Bow Street and refused bail; imprisoned at Holloway [till 26th April].

1895

14

04

News of Wilde's plight discussed in Paris.

1895

16

04

Wilde writes to Sherard from Holloway.

1895

24

04

Selling up of Wilde's possessions at Tite Street. Lord Alfred Douglas goes abroad, not returning until November 1898.

1895

26

04

Wilde's first trial opens before Mr Justice Charles.

Death of Count Eric Stenbock.

1895

 

05

The Wildes move to Nervi, near Margaret Brooke, Ranee of Sarawak.

1895

08-19

05

Wilde stays at the Leversons' house in Courtfield Gardens.

1895

08-19

(between)

05

Wilde meets Robert Cunninghame Graham in Rotten Row.

1895

04

05

Frank Harris visits Wilde in Holloway.

1895

07

05

Wilde released on bail of £5,000.

1895

08

05

Wilde moves into his mother's house where he is visited by R.H. Sherard and Ernest Dowson.

1895

15

05

Toulouse-Lautrec's drawing of Wilde appears in the Revue Blanche.

1895

22

05

Wilde's second trial opens before Mr Justice Wills (Sir Alfred Wills). Lord Queensberry and Lord Percy of Hawick bound over to keep the peace.

1895

25

05

Wilde sentenced to two years' hard labour and imprisoned at Pentonville.  Announcement  of a knighthood for Henry Irving.

1895

25

05

Death of Rosa Bonheur.

1895

28

05

Daudet brings to Paris news of Wilde from Sherard.

1895

 

06

The Wildes move to Bevais, nr Neuchâtel and stay with Otho Lloyd.  Here they change  their names to Holland.

1895

05

06

Article in the Daily Chronicle suggesting Wilde is suffering a mental breakdown.  This is  read by Asquith (Home Secretary and former social acquaintance) who orders an  investigation.

1895

12

06

Wilde visited by Haldane in Pentonville (miscalled Holloway in Haldane's Autobiography).

1895

21

06

Queensberry petitions for Wilde's bankruptcy.

1895

04

07

Wilde is transferred to Wandsworth.

1895

06

07

Mirbeau compares Wilde and Huysmans.

1895

11

07

Birth of Dolly Wilde.

1895

 

09

Constance Wilde moves to Sori, near Bogliasco.

1895

21

09

Constance Wilde visits Wilde in Wandsworth.

1895

24

09

Wilde's first examination in bankruptcy.

1895

12

11

Wilde's second examination in bankruptcy.

1895

20

11

Wilde transferred to Reading Gaol. The Clapham Junction incident.

1896

11

02

Salome is produced at the Théâtre de l'Oeuvre in Paris, with Aurélien Lugné-Poé (Hérode) and Lina Munt (Salomé).[DG]

1896

12

02

Constance visits Wilde in prison.

1896

10

05

Charles Ricketts visits Wilde in prison [N.B.  Peter Vernier questions this].

1896

10

05

Death of Beatrix Whistler.

1896

13

06

Frank Harris visits Wilde in Reading Gaol.

1896

21

11

Alleged visit by Frank Harris to Wilde in Reading Gaol.

1897

28/9

 

Lord Alfred Douglas in Rouen.

1897

28

 

Or perh. 29th. Wilde gives a children's party at Berneval.

1897

29

 

Lord Alfred Douglas leaves Rouen for Paris.

1897

 

01

Wilde begins 'De Profundis'.

1897

 

01

Wilde is allowed to let his hair grow.

1897

28

01

More Adey visits Wilde in Reading Gaol.

1897

19

02

Constance goes from Genoa to Reading to inform her husband of his mother's death.  [DG]

1897

22

02

After visiting Wilde in his jail, Constance visits Edward Burne-Jones and his wife.  [DG]

1897

 

03

Willie Wilde called to the Bar.

1897

 

03

Wilde visits Greece with Mahaffy, returning viâ Rome in April.

1897

 

03

Publication of Wilde's poem 'Impression de Voyage' in Waifs and Strays 3 (Oxford, ed. by  Harold Boulton) (N.B. 'the dear Duchessof Bolton').

1897

 

03

Lillie Langtry stays with Sir George & Lady Lewis at Walton-on-Thames.Wilde and the Comyns Carrs visit.

1897

 

03

Wilde finishes The Duchess of Padua.

1897

 

03

Wilde and Constance dine with Mr and Mrs Charles Hancock.

1897

 

03

Wilde lectures on Chatterton.

1897

 

03

Publication of Wilde's 'Further Literary Notes in Woman's World.

1897

 

03

Wilde finishes 'De Profundis'.

1897

13

03

Death of Rodolphe Salis.

1897

17

04

Frank Harris visits Wilde in Reading Gaol.

1897

18

05

Wilde transferred to Pentonville.

1897

19

05

Wilde is released and goes to Stewart Headlam's house, 31 Upper Bedford Place,  Bloomsbury, where he is visited by Ada Leverson.

1897

19

05

Wilde sails from Newhaven by the night boat, the 'Tamise'.  Publication of Dracula.

1897

20

05

04.30. Wilde lands at Dieppe and stays at the Hotel Sandwich.

1897

26

05

Wilde moves from Dieppe to the Hôtel de la Plage, Berneval-sur-Mer.

1897

27

05

Wilde is visited by Lugné-Poë.

1897

 

06

Charles Wyndham visits Wilde at Berneval in the hope of persuading him to adapt Eugène Sue's play 'Le Verre d'Eau'. Wilde turns the idea down in September.

1897

16

06

Wilde and Dowson together.

1897

17

06

Wilde and Dowson together.

1897

20

06

Sixteenth meeting of Wilde and Gide, in Berneval. Weather terrible.

1897

21

06

Publication of Wilde's first letter to the Daily Chronicle.

1897

 

07

Whistler visits Dieppe and is seen passing by, but does not  see, Wilde.

1897

24

07

Wilde and Beardsley meet.

1897

 

09

Wilde interviewed in Dieppe by Gideon Spilett for 'Gil Blas'.

1897

 

09

Wilde has suggested that Dowson should translate Louÿs' 'Aphrodite'.

1897

09

09

Wilde in Rouen.

1897

20

09

Wilde leaves Dieppe for Paris, staying in a hotel in the rue de Helder.  Constance Wilde writes to Oscar a letter full of anger : 'I forbid you to see Lord Alfred Douglas. I forbid you to return to your filthy, insane life. I forbid you to live at Naples. I will not allow you to come to Genoa'. [DG]

1897

25c

09

Wilde arrives at Naples and stays with Douglas at the Hôtel Royal des Etrangers.

1897

27

09

Wilde stays at the Villa Giudice, Posillipo [37 via Posillipo].

1897

15

10

Wilde visits Capri with Lord Alfred Douglas.

1897

18

10

Wilde leaves Capri.

1897

06

11

The Academy prints a list of 40 possible members of a British Academy of Letters. Shaw and H.G. Wells suggest Wilde (13, 20.11.1897).

1897

 

12

Wilde visits Sicily with Lord Alfred Douglas.

1897

 

12

Wilde meets J. Joseph Renaud at lunch.

1898

28

 

Lord Ronald Gower and Frank Hird travel from Tours to Paris.

1898

30

 

Lord Ronald Gower and Frank Hird travel from Paris to Strasbourg, Heidelberg and Dresden.

1898

13?

02

Wilde moves to Hôtel de Nice, rue des Beaux Arts, Paris.

1898

13

02

Publication of The Ballad of Reading Gaol; Wilde sends inscribed copies to William Archer, R.B. Haldane, Ada Leverson.

1898

09

03

Wilde meets George Ives in Paris.

1898

13

03

Wilde meets Carlos Blacker in Paris.

1898

16

03

Publication of Wilde's second letter to the 'Daily Chronicle'.

1898

16

03

Death of Aubrey Beardsley.

1898

27?

03

Wilde moves to the Hôtel d'Alsace, 13 rue des Beaux-Arts.

1898

28

03

Wilde cuts his lip badly in a fiacre accident.

1898

 

04

Wilde dines at Pousset's with Henry and Aline Harland.

1898

07

04

Death of Constance Wilde.

1898

13

04

Carlos Blacker visits Wilde, Ross also there.

1898

14

04

Wilde introduces Henri Davray to Frank Harris at Foyot's.

1898

 

05

Wilde meets and dines with Diaghilev (perhaps).

1898

19

05

Death of Mr Gladstone.

1898

26?

05

Wilde goes to the Salon with Lord Alfred Douglas and Maurice Gilbert; then meets Sherard  in Campbell's Bar and goes on to dine with the Vicomte d'Humières.

1898

 

06

Wilde at Nogent-sur-Marne till July with Lord Alfred Douglas, who goes to Paris every  day.

1898

07

06

Carlos Blacker visits Wilde at Nogent-sur-Marne.

1898

16

06

Death of Sir Edward Burne-Jones.

1898

 

07

Wilde leaves Nogent-sur-Marne.

1898

 

08

Lord Alfred Douglas leaves Nogent-sur-Marne for Trouville, joining his mother; then to Aix-les-Bains viâ Paris.

1898

 

11

Frank Harris is in Paris and gives Wilde dinner at Durand's.

1898

 

12

Laurence Housman sends Wilde 'All-Fellows'.

1898

 

12

A.E. Housman sends Wilde 'A Shropshire Lad'.

1898

15

12

Wilde leaves for La Napoule, near Cannes.

1899

 

02

Publication of 'The Importance of Being Earnest'.  Wilde sends inscribed copy to William Archer.

1899

 

02

Wilde visits Constance's grave.

1899

25

02

Wilde leaves Nice for Gland, outside Geneva, to stay with Harold Mellor.

1899

16

03

Death of Francisque Sarcey.

1899

 

04

Wilde returns to Paris, Hotel de la Neva, till May.

1899

01

04

Wilde leaves Gland for Santa Margherita.

1899

 

05

Wilde moves to the Hôtel Marsollier.

1899

 

05

Wilde at Marlotte, near Fontainebleau.

1899

 

06

Wilde dines with Stuart Merrill, meets André Hérold.

1899

02c

06

Wilde meets Ada Rehan and Mrs & Mrs Augustin Daly in a Paris restaurant.

1899

11

06

Wilde meets Ernest Dowson.

1899

23

06

Wilde at Trouville and Le Havre.

1899

26

06

Wilde leaves Trouville and Le Havre.

1899

 

07

Wilde at Chennevières-sur-Marne.

1899

 

08

Wilde moves back to the Hôtel d'Alsace.

1900

02

04

Wilde visits Palermo.

1900

10

04

Wilde leaves Palermo.

1900

12

04

Wilde in Rome [till 15th? May].

1900

15?

04

Wilde leaves Rome.

1900

18

04

Death of R.A.M. Stevenson.

1900

 

05

Wilde spends ten days in Gland.

1900

01

05

Death of Mihaly Munkáczy.

1900

 

07

Wilde visits the Rodin Pavilion at the Exposition Universelle.

1900

09?

08

Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas dine at the Grand Café.

1900

09

09

George Ives sends  Wilde £5/-/-.

1900

10

10

Wilde's operation.

1900

17

10

Robert Ross arrives in Paris and visits Wilde.

1900

20

10

Wedding of Lily Wilde and Alexander Texeira de Mattos.

1900

25

10

First night of 'Mr & Mrs Daventry'.

1900

25

10

Alec Ross and Lily Texeira de Mattos visit Wilde.

1900

12

11

Robert Ross visits Wilde at the Hotel d’Alsace but leaves to join his mother in the south of France.  [DG]

1900

28

11

Carlos Blacker goes to Paris from Freiburg, but delays going to see Wilde.

1900

03

12

Wilde's funeral at Bagneux.

1900

08

12

Short piece on Wilde by Max Beerbohm in 'The Saturday Review'.

1901

03

04

Death of Richard d'Oyley Carte.

1903

03

03

Death of Alexandre Charpentier.

1903

25

03

Death of General Sir Hector MacDonald.

1903

08

05

Death of Paul Gauguin.

1903

03

07

Wilde's creditors paid 13/4d in the £.

1903

07

07

Death of Whistler.

1904

11

05

Death of Adrian Hope.

1904

28

07

Vyvyan Wilde leaves Stonyhurst.

1904

02

08

Vyvyan Wilde goes to Dr Kümmer's crammer at Ouchy, Lausanne.

1904

09

09

Stuart Mason finishes his translation of André Gide: 'Oscar Wilde, A Study from the French'. Oxford: Holywell Press 1905.

1906

12

01

Charles Hemphill, great uncle of Constance Wilde, raised to the peerage.

1906

12

01

First performance of Wilde's 'Florentine Tragedy' in Berlin, directed by Max Reinhardt.

1906

14

05

Death of Hercules Brabazon Brabazon.

1906

28

05

Wilde estate declared solvent after all debtors are paid at 20/- in the £ + 4%.

1906

19

08

James Joyce finishes reading 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'.

1907

 

05

Wilde's 'A Florentine Tragedy' produced at the Théâtre de l'Œuvre.

1907

13

05

Death of Joris--Karl Huysmans.

1907

06

08

Vyvyan Wilde meets Robbie Ross for the first time.

1907

03

11

Vyvyan Wilde comes of age.

1908

04

03

Death of Lord Hemphill, great-uncle of Constance Wilde

1909

24

03

Death of John Millington Synge.

1909

09

04

Death of Charles Conder.

1909

10

04

Death of Swinburne.

1909

20

07

Re-interment of Oscar Wilde at Père Lachaise.

1910

20

03

Death of Nadar.

1910

21

04

Death of Mark Twain

1910

16

05

Death of Henri-Edmond Cross.

1911

29

05

Death of Sir W.S. Gilbert.

1912

20

04

Death of Bram Stoker.

1912

14

05

Death of Strindberg.

1913

20

10

Death of Charles Brookfield.

1914

08

04

Death of Hubertine Auclert.

1914

03

05

Death of Ernst von Schuch, first conductor of Salome.

1915

09

05

Death of Cyril Holland, k.i.a.

1916

01

03

Death of Mounet-Sully.

1916

11

04

Death of Richard Harding Davis.

1917

17

05

Death of Charles Vyner Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak.

1917

02

07

Death of Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree.

1918

16

03

Death of Sir George Alexander.

1918

05

10

Death of Robert Ross of a heart failure in his flat of Halfmoon Street.  He was aged just forty nine.  His friend Siegfried Sassoon noted 'It seems reasonable to claim that this was the only occasion on which his heart failed him' [DG]

1918

05

10

Death of George du Maurier.

1920

06

05

Death of Hortense Schneider.

1922

07

10

Death of Lily Texeira de Mattos.

1923

01

03

Death of Bourke Cockran.

1923

26

03

Death of Sarah Bernhardt.

1924

21

04

Death of Eleonora Duse.

1924

17

07

Death of Lovis Corinth.

1925

15

04

Death of John Singer Sargent.

1925

14

05

Death of Sir Henry Rider Haggard.

1925

28

05

Death of J.E.C. Bodley.

1925

03

06

Death of Pierre Louÿs.

1926

09

04

Death of Henry Miller.

1928

16

05

Death of Edmund Gosse.

1929

15

03

Death of Laura Hope.

1930

15

05

Death of W.J. Locke.

1930

18

07

Death of Vincent O'Sullivan.

1931

26

03

Death of Arnold Bennett.

1932

12

02

Death of William Welsford 'Bouncer' Ward.  [PV]

1932

22

11

Death of Richard Reginald 'Kitten' Harding ['not Reginald Richard', as Ellmann p. 43 has it, the mistake originating in the Magdalen Record].  [PV]

1934

08

03

Death of Stephen Mac Kenna.

1934

10

03

Death of F. Anstey.

1934

14

06

Death of John Gray.

1935

22

10

Death of Edward Carson.

1935

30

10

Death of Sibell Dowager Marchioness of Queensberry.

1936

23

05

Death of Henri de Régnier.

1936

03

06

Death of Margaret de Windt,  Ranee of Sarawak.

1937

25

05

Death of Florence Balcombe (Mrs Bram Stoker).

1938

01

04

Death of Mortimer Menpes.

1938

11

04

Death of Edgar Jepson.

1938

19

04

Death of Suzanne Valadon.

1939

12

09

Death of David 'Dunsky' Hunter Blair [no hyphen]. [PV]

1942

15

03

Death of Alexander von Zemlinsky.

1942

21

03

Death of Philip Wilson Steer.

1944

15

05

Death of Sir John Martin-Harvey.

1945

20

03

Death of Lord Alfred Douglas.

1949

06

05

Death of Maurice Maeterlinck.

1950

30

11

Ceremony at Père Lachaise to mark 50th anniversary of Wilde's death. Robbie Ross's ashes are buried beside Wilde.  Those present include Francis Marquess of Queensberry and H. Montgomery Hyde.

1951

21

04

Death of Olive Fremstad.

1952

08

05

Death of Elizabeth Robins.

1954

10

04

Death of Auguste Lumière.

1954

22

05

Death of Lloyd Osbourne.

1954

16

10

Sir Compton Mackenzie (Magdalen 1901-1904) unveils plaque on Wilde's house in Tite Street.

1956

22

05

Death of Max Beerbohm.

1967

10

10

Death of Vyvyan Holland.

1972

22

05

Death of Margaret Rutherford ("Miss Prism' in the Anthony Asquith film).

1991

23

08

Foundation of the first Irish Oscar Wilde Society.

1991

29

09

First meeting of the Irish Oscar Wilde Society, Bewley's Café, Dublin.

1994

16-18

09

First Oscar Wilde Autumn School held in Bray, Co Wicklow.

1995

14

02

Panel in stained glass window in Westminster Abbey dedicated to Wilde.

1995

16

03

Death of Heinrich Sutermeister.

[AJ] = Anne Jordan; [DG] = Danielle Guérin; [GD] = Geoffrey Dibb; [PV] = Peter Vernier; [RW]  = Roy Waters

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