1778 William Hazlitt born at Maidstone in Kent, April 10.
1783-1786 Residence in America.
1787 ff. Residence at Wem in Shropshire.
1793-1794 Student in the Hackney Theological College.
1798 Meeting with Coleridge and Wordsworth.
1798?-1805 Study and practice of painting.
1802 Visit to Paris.
1805 _Essay on the Principles of Human Action_.
1806 _Free Thoughts on Public Affairs_.
1807 _An Abridgment of the Light of Nature Revealed, by Abraham Tucker_.
_Reply to the Essay on Population by the Rev. T. R. Malthus_.
_Eloquence of the British Senate_.
1808 Marriage with Sarah Stoddart and settlement at Winterslow.
1810 _A New and Improved Grammar of the English Tongue_.
1812 Removal to London.--Lectures on philosophy at the Russell Institution.
1812-1814 On the staff of the _Morning Chronicle_.
1814 Begins contributing to the _Champion_, _Examiner_, and the
_Edinburgh Review_.
1816 _Memoirs of the Late Thomas Holcroft_.
1817 _The Round Table_.
_The Characters of Shakespeare's Plays_.
1818 _A View of the English Stage_.
_Lectures on the English Poets_. (Delivered at the Surrey
Institution.)
1819 _Lectures on the English Comic Writers_. (Delivered at the Surrey
Institution at the close of 1818.)
_A Letter to William Gifford Esq., from William Hazlitt Esq._
_Political Essays_.
1820 _Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth_.
(Delivered at the Surrey Institution at the close of 1819.)
Joins the staff of the _London Magazine_.
1821-22 _Table Talk, or Original Essays_ (2 volumes).
1822 Episode of Sarah Walker.--Journey to Scotland to obtain a divorce
from his wife.
1823 _Liber Amoris, or the New Pygmalion_.
_Characteristics in the Manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims_.
1824 _Sketches of the Principal Picture-Galleries in England_.
_Select British Poets_.
Marriage with Mrs. Bridgewater.--Tour of the Continent.
1825 _The Spirit of the Age_.
1826 _Notes of a Journey through France and Italy_.
_The Plain Speaker, Opinions on Books, Men, and Things_ (2 volumes).
1828-1830 _Life of Napoleon Buonaparte_ (4 volumes).
1830 _Conversations of James Northcote_.
Death of William Hazlitt, September 18.