| Timeline |
| 1833 |
Born 28 August in Birmingham |
| 1844 |
Admitted to King Edward VI School |
| 1853 |
Enters Exeter College, Oxford, and it is here that he meets William Morris |
| 1855 |
Tours northern France with Morris |
| 1856 |
Meets Rossetti |
| 1857 |
Takes part in the Oxford Union mural campaign |
| 1858 |
Joins the Hogarth Club |
| 1859 |
Travels to Italy |
| 1860 |
Burne-Jones is a founding partner in the firm of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co along with William Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Maddox Brown, and Phillip Webb |
| 1860 |
Marries Georgiana MacDonald |
| 1862 |
Travels with Georgiana to Italy |
| 1863 |
Elected Associate, Old Watercolour Society |
| 1871 |
Third visit to Italy |
| 1873 |
Last visit to Italy |
| 1875 |
Morris, Faulkner & Company dissolved |
| 1877 |
Burne-Jones is a major contributor to the first exhibition of the Grosvenor Gallery |
| 1878 |
Visits Paris |
| 1881 |
Receives honorary degree D. C. L. from Oxford. |
| 1883 |
Honorary Fellow, Exeter College, Oxford (with Morris) |
| 1885 |
Elected president, Birmingham Society of Artists |
| 1885 |
Invited to join the Royal Academy, reluctantly accepts |
| 1893 |
Resigns from Royal Academy |
| 1894 |
Knighted by Prime Minister Gladstone |
| 1898 |
Dies 17 June in Fulham |
