| Timeline |
| 1827 |
Born 2 April in Cheapside |
| 1839 |
Becomes an office clerk |
| 1843 |
Begins applying for a place at the Royal Academy school |
| 1844 |
Wins place at R.A. |
| 1846 |
Exhibits picture Little Nell and her Grandfather at the British Institution, and Hark at the Royal Academy |
| 1848 |
Forms the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood with Rossetti and Millais |
| 1849 |
Travels to France and Belgium with Rossetti |
| 1854 |
Leaves England to join Thomas Seddon in Egypt, does not return from the Holy Land until 1856 |
| 1856 |
Refuses associateship of the Royal Academy |
| 1858 |
Helps to form Hogarth Club |
| 1865 |
Marries Fanny Waugh |
| 1866 |
Fanny and William leave England for a trip to the East in August |
| 1866 |
Son was born 26 October; Fanny contracts miliary fever and dies on 20 December |
| 1867 |
Returns to England |
| 1868 |
Travels back to Florence in June to work on a memorial to Fanny |
| 1869 |
Finally reaches Jerusalem on 31 August |
| 1872 |
Returns to England in July |
| 1875 |
Marries Edith Waugh (his sister-in-law) in November; they travel to Jerusalem |
| 1876 |
Daughter, Gladys Millais Mulock, born 20 September |
| 1878 |
Hunt family returns to London in April |
| 1892 |
Visits the Middle East for the last time |
| 1905 |
Awarded the Order of Merit from Edward VII and an honorary D.C.L., by Oxford University |
| 1905 |
Publishes Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood |
| 1910 |
Dies in London, 7 September |
