| The Carlyles | History | Cultural Events | ||
| 1795 | Born Ecclefechan, Scotland, 4th Dec. | Keats born
Goethe - Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre | ||
| 1796 | Napoleon invades Italy. Invasion of England threatened | Robert Burns dies, aet 37. Napoleon invades Italy | ||
| 1798 | Battle of the Nile | Malthus: Essay on Population, Coleridge: Lyrical Ballads | ||
| 1801 | Jane Baillie Welsh born Haddington, Scotland,14 July | Union of Great Britain and Ireland | ||
| 1804 | Napoleon declared Emperor | |||
| 1805 | Battle of Trafalgar | |||
| 1806-9 | Attends Annan Academy | 1808:Scott's Marmion and Goethe's Faust Pt 1 | ||
| 1809-14 | At Edinburgh University | 1811: Insanity of George III; Lord Liverpool PM | 1811: Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility | |
| 1811-12 | Luddite Riots; Napoleon invades Russia | Byron: Childe Harold | ||
| 1812-14 | War between England and America | 1814: Scott's Waverley | ||
| 1815 | Waterloo, Napoleon exiled, Corn Laws passed. | Grimm's Fairy Tales | ||
| 1816-18 | Teaches at Kirkcaldy Burgh School, Fife. Meets Mgt Gordon. Friendship with Irving. Mother ill for one year. | Jane Austen: Emma. Keats's Sonnets | ||
| 1818 | Edinburgh. Learning German. 'Illness' begins | Scott: Heart of Midlothian | ||
| 1819 | Peterloo massacre of Corn Law protesters | |||
| 1820 | Dr Welsh (Jane's father) dies Haddington | George III dies. Prince Regent becomes George IV | ||
| 1821 | May: first meets Jane Welsh at Haddington | De Quincey: Opium Eater | ||
| 1821-22 | 'Leith Walk Experience' in June 1821 or July/Aug 1822. | |||
| 1822-24 | Tutor to Buller family | Byron: Don Juan | ||
| 1824 | Visits London, Paris. Corresponds with Goethe | Scott: Redgauntlet | ||
| 1825 | Hoddam Hill farm. Happier. Jane visits and meets family.
24 July: she confesses past love of Irving. | |||
| 1826 | Marriage to Jane Welsh, 17 October, Thornhill. Move to 21 Comely Bank, Edinburgh. Health gradually improves. Parents and family move to Scotbrig farm, nr Ecclefechan. | Heine: Reisebilder. Manzoni: I Promessi Sposi | ||
| 1828-34 | Move to Craigenputtoch. Essays on Burns and Goethe | 1828 Wellington becomes PM. | ||
| 1829 | 'Voltaire', 'Signs of the Times', articles on German Literature. Sister Margaret dies of cancer | Catholic Emancipation Act | First Baedeker published | . |
| 1830 | George IV dies; William IV succeeds. Manchester-Liverpool Railway. | Tennyson: Poems; Stendhal: Le Rouge et le Noir | ||
| 1831 | Sartor finished. To London. Fails to find publisher. Meets JS Mill. 'Characteristics.' | |||
| 1832 | Father dies; writes reminiscence. Returns to Craigenputtoch | Cholera in Scotland
First Reform Bill Darwin sails on the Beagle | Goethe dies
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| 1833 | Edinburgh Jan-May. Emerson visits C'puttoch Aug. Sartor serialised in Frasers magazine. | Factory Act | Oxford Movement | |
| 1834 | June: Move to Cheyne Row, London. Begins French Revolution. Edward Irving dies | Fire at Houses of Parliament: TC present |
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