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01/24/1812 John Dickens moves family to Hawke Street, Kingston, Portsea 02/07/1812 Dickens born in Landport, Portsmouth 1814 John Dickens transferred to Somerset House, London+B779 1815 Catherine Hogarth, Dickens` future wife, born 1817 John Dickens moves family to Chatham 1821 Dickens starts school at William Giles School, Chatham 1822 John Dickens transferred to London, moves family to 16 Bayham Street, Camden Town 1824 Dickens leaves blacking factory, returned to school 1824 John Dickens imprisoned at Marshalsea for debt 1824 Dickens leaves school, employed at Warren`s Blacking House 1825 John Dickens retires with small pension 1827 John Dickens evicted from home, Dickens removed from school 1827 Dickens begins work as solicitor`s clerk, Ellis and Blackmore, Gray`s Inn 1828 Dickens working as a reporter for the Morning Herald 1829 Dickens becomes a freelance reporter at Doctor`s Common 1831 Dickens reporting for the Mirror of Parliament 1832 Dickens reporting for the True Sun 1833 Dickens` first story, A Dinner at Poplar Walk, published in Monthly Magazine 1834 Dickens meets Catherine Hogarth, 8 more stories published in Monthly Magazine 1836 Dickens marries Catherine Hogarth, begins writing Pickwick 1836 Sketches by Boz published 1837 Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club published 1838 Oliver Twist published 1839 Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby published 1841 The Old Curiosity Shop published 1841 Barnaby Rudge published 1842 Dickens first visit to America 1843 A Christmas Carol published 1844 Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit published 1845 Dickens writes Cricket on the Hearth 1848 Dombey and Son published 1850 David Copperfield published 1853 Bleak House published 1854 Hard Times published 1857 Little Dorrit published 1858 Dickens and Catherine are legally separated 1859 A Tale of Two Cities published 1861 Great Expectations published 1865 Our Mutual Friend published 1867 Dickens second American visit 1869 Dickens begins writing Edwin Drood (never completed) 1870 Dickens dies, buried in Poet`s Corner, Westminster Abbey |
