| Timeline |
| 1795 |
Born 31 October at the Swan and Hoop Livery Stables |
| 1803 |
Enters John Clarke's School at Enfield |
| 1804 |
Father is killed in a riding accident. Mother remarries William Rawlings, and the Keats children move to their maternal grandparents
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| 1810 |
Mother dies |
| 1811 |
Apprenticed to be a surgeon |
| 1815 |
Becomes a medical student at Guy's Hospital |
| 1816 |
Passes examinations and is licensed to practice as an apothecary |
| 1817 |
Poems published |
| 1818 |
Endymion published |
| 1818 |
Brother dies, Keats moves to Wentworth Place |
| 1818 |
Goes on a tour of Scotland and Ireland |
| 1819 |
Suffers from depression and the first signs of tuberculosis |
| 1820 |
Diagnosed with tuberculosis, sails to Italy |
| 1821 |
Dies 23 February at 26 Piazza di Spagna, Rome |
