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