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 |
|
|
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 |
|
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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