Year	Mo	Dt	Dy	EVENT
1812	02	07	Fr	Born at Landport, a suburb of Portsmouth to Elizabeth and John Dickens, a clerk in the navy pay-office at the dockyard.
1814				Family moved to London when John D. was transferred.
1816				Family moved to Chatham when John D. was transferred.
1822	09			CD leaves schooling and joins his family in a house in Camden Town, London. John has lost his employment and most of his fortune
1824	02	20		Father arrested for debt and sent to Marshalsea prison, where family joins him, except for Charles, who has been put to work at Warren's Blacking Factory at Hungerford Market.
	05	28		Father's release from prison. The family returns to Camden Town.
	06			CD is enrolled in Wellington House Academy, (Hampstead Road, London)
1827	05			Removed from school and sent to an attorney as an office boy.
1829	sp			Becomes a free-lance reporter at Doctor's Commons Courts.
1830	05			Meets Maria Beadnell and falls madly in love.
1831				Reporter for The Mirror of Parliament..
1832	03			Requested a theatrical audition, and was accepted.
	04			Was taken ill and could not keep his theatrical audition.
1833	05			His love affair with Maria Beadnell ends.
	12			His first published story, "Dinner at Poplar Walk," appears in Monthly Magazine.
1834	08			First publishes under the name "Boz."
	11			Father arrested again, for debt. CD makes arrangements for the debts.
1835	05			Becomes engaged to 19 year old Catherine Thomson Hogarth
1836	02	07		Sketches by Boz first appears, on CD's 24th birthday.
	02	18		First begins work on Pickwick Papers.
	04	02		Weds Catherine Thomson Hogarth
	03	31		First monthly appearance of Pickwick Papers.
	11			Becomes editor of Bentley's Miscellany.
	12			Meets John Forster, who becomes a lifelong confidant and his first biographer.
1837	01	06		Birth of first child, Charles Culliford Boz D_.
	01			Oliver Twist, begins in monthly parts in Bentley's Miscellany.
	03	25		Signs 3 year lease on house at 48 Doughty Street, later to become the Dickens' House Museum
	05	03		CD gave his first public speech at the anniversary festival of the Literary Fund.
	05	07	Su	Mary Hogarth dies. CD has such great affection for her that he removes a ring from her finger and places it on his own, where it remains until his own death.
	11	18		Pickwick Papers ends.
1838	03	06		Second child, Mary is born.
	04			Nicholas Nickleby begins
1839	02			Resigns as editor of Bentley's Miscellany.
	04			Oliver Twist ends
	10			Daughter Kate is born
	10			Nicholas Nickleby ends.
1840	06			Master Humphrey's Clock begins.
				The Old Curiosity Shop. begins
1841	02			The Old Curiosity Shop ends.
	02			Barnaby Rudge, begins.
	10	08		Had surgery to remove a fistula.
	11			Barnaby Rudge ends.
1842	01	04	Tu	Travels with Catherine to US and Canada.
	06	29		Returns to London.
	10			American Notes begins.
	11			Began to write A Child's History of England".
1843	01			Martin Chuzzlewit begins.
	12	19		A Christmas Carol is published.
1844	01	15		Fifth child, Francis Jeffrey, is born.
	07	01		Martin Chuzzlewit ends.
	07	02		Takes his family on an an extended tour of Italy.
	12	30	Sa	Returns to London when The Chimes is published. Then returns to Genoa.
1845	06			Returns to London.
	09	20		Begins his amateur theatrical company with the production of "Every Man in His Humour".
	10	28		Sixth child, Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson, is born.
	12	01		The Cricket and the Hearth published.
	12			Last installment of A Child's History of England.
1846	01			Becomes editor of Daily News.
	01			Pictures from Italy
	02	09		Resigns as editor of Daily News
	07			Completed work on the first installment of Dombey and Son.
	10			Wrote The Battle of Life which was published the week before Christmas.
1847	04	08		7th child, Sydney Smith Haldimand D_, is born.
1848	04			Dombey and Son finished and published in book form.
				Directs and acts in amateur theatricals.
				Begins writing The Haunted Man.
	09			His sister Fanny dies.
	12			His final Christmas book, The Haunted Man, is published
1849	01			Eighth child, Henry Fielding D_, is born.
	05	01		First installment of David Copperfield.
1850	08			9th child, Dora Annie is born.
	11			Last installment of David Copperfield.
	03			Begins Household Words and takes position as its editor.
1851	01			Acting in farces.
	03	31		Death of his father, John.
	04	14		Death of Dora Annie
	11			Moved to Tavistock House from Devonshire Terrrace.
1852	03			First appearance of Bleak House.
	03	13		10th child, Edward Bulwer Lytton D_ is born.
1853				Autumn-Tours Italy with Augustus Egg and Wilkie Collins.
	08	25		Read the last number of Bleak House to family and friends.
	12	27		Gives his first public reading as a benefit.
1854	04	01		Hard Times begins.
	08	12		Hard Times ends.
	10			Vacations with Catherine and Georgina in Boulogne.
1855	10			Travels to Paris with family.
	12			First installment of Little Dorrit
1856				Works with Wilkie Collins on his play, The Frozen Deep.
	03	14		Purchases Gad's Hill Place.
1857	05			Little Dorrit ends.
	07			Visit from Hans Christian Anderson
				The Frozen Deep is performed for the Queen by his theatre company.
	08			Falls in love with a young actress named Ellen Ternan
1858	04	29		Performs his first public readings for pay, in London.
	05			Separates from his wife Catherine.
1859				Stage readings continue in London.
	04	30		Begins as editor of All the Year Round
	12			A Tale of Two Cities ends.
1860	12			Great Expectations begins.
1861				More public readings in London.
	08	03		Great Expectations ends.
1862				Public readings from spring until June.
1863	01			More public readings in Paris and London.
	09			Mother, Elizabeth, dies.
1864	05			First installment of Our Mutual Friend.
1865	02			His health begins to fail.
	06	09		He and Ellen Ternan are involved in a railway accident at Staplehurst.
	11			Our Mutual Friend ends.
1866	04			Tours Endland and Scotland with more public readings.
1867	11			Tours England and Ireland with more public readings, against his doctor's wishes.
	11			Arrives in Boston for his American reading tour.
1868	04	22		Leaves America for England.
				Takes additional duties at All the Year Round.
1869				Tours England, Scotland and Ireland with more readings.
	09			Begins The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
1870	03	15	Tu	Finishes final series of readings in London. His career comprises a total of 444 readings.
	06	08	We	Spends a full day writing Edwin Drood and then suffers a stroke at dinner.
	06	09	Th	Dies at 6:10 PM.
	06	14	Tu	Funeral service in Westminster Abbey.
	06	17	Fr	His coffin is sealed after 3 days procession of mourners.
	09			Last installment of The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

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