| Timeline |
| 1795 |
Born 4 December |
| 1800 |
Attends village school |
| 1804 |
Attends Annan Grammar School |
| 1809 |
Begins attendance at University in Edinburgh |
| 1813 |
Receives his B.A. |
| 1814 |
Begins teaching at Annan Academy |
| 1816 |
Begins teaching at Kircaldy Grammar School |
| 1818 |
Teaches privately in Edinburgh; reads law |
| 1825 |
The Life Of Schiller published |
| 1826 |
Marries Jane Baillie Welsh |
| 1828 |
Essay On Burns published |
| 1828 |
The Carlyles move to Craigenputtock |
| 1829 |
Signs Of The Times published |
| 1830 |
On History published |
| 1833 |
On History Again published |
| 1834 |
Sartor Resartus published |
| 1834 |
Moves to London |
| 1837 |
The French Revolution, and Lectures On German Literature published |
| 1838 |
Lectures On The History Of Literature and Essay On Scott published |
| 1839 |
Lectures On European Revolutions and Collected Essays published |
| 1840 |
Charitism published |
| 1841 |
On Heroes, Heroworship, And The Heroic In History published |
| 1843 |
Past And Present published |
| 1845 |
Oliver Cromwell's Letters And Speeches published |
| 1850 |
Latter-Day Pamphlets published |
| 1852 |
Visits Germany |
| 1858 |
Visits Germany again |
| 1865 |
The History Of Friedrich II Of Prussia (complete) published |
| 1866 |
On The Choice Of Books published |
| 1866 |
Appointed Rector of the University of Edinburgh; wife dies |
| 1867 |
Shooting Niagara - And After? published |
| 1874 |
Receives Prussian Order of Merit; refuses Disraeli's offer of a Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath |
| 1875 |
Early Kings Of Norway published |
| 1881 |
Reminiscences published |
| 1881 |
Dies 5 February in London |
| 1882 |
Last Words published |
| 1883 |
Correspondence With Emerson published |
| 1887 |
Correspondence With Goethe published |
| 1889 |
Early Letters published |
| 1892 |
Rescued Essays published |
| 1897 |
Montaigne And Other Essays, Chiefly Biographical published |
