| Timeline |
| 1772 |
Born 21 October, Ottery St. Mary, Devonshire
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| 1775 |
Begins attending Dame Key's Reading School |
| 1778 |
Attends Henry VIII Free Grammar School in Ottery |
| 1781 |
Father dies |
| 1782 |
At Christ's Hospital, London (charity boarding school which still exists today) until 1791 |
| 1791 |
Enters Jesus College, Cambridge |
| 1793 |
"Reign of Terror" begins, Coleridge enlists in 15th Light Dragoons as Silas Tomkyn Comberbache |
| 1794 |
Discharged, returns to Cambridge |
| 1794 |
First poems published in Morning Chronicle |
| 1794 |
Leaves Cambridge without degree, tours Wales |
| 1794 |
Publishes drama The Fall of Robespierre with Southey |
| 1795 |
Marries Sara Fricker 4 October, they move to Clevedon, Somerset |
| 1796 |
Coleridge and family move to Nether Stowey |
| 1796 |
Produces The Watchman, Poems on Various Subjects published |
| 1797 |
Poems, Second Edition published |
| 1797 |
Engaged by Morning Post |
| 1798 |
Lyrical Ballads published anonymously |
| 1798 |
Travels to Germany to study language & philosophy, at University of Göttingen in 1799 |
| 1798 |
Unitarian sermons at Shrewsbury |
| 1800 |
Coleridge and family move to Greta Hall, Keswick |
| 1801 |
Prolonged illnesses (rheumatic fever), may be the beginning of his eventual addiction to opium |
| 1802 |
Poems published |
| 1803 |
Tours Scotland with William & Dorothy Wordsworth |
| 1804 |
Appointed under-secretary to British High Commissioner of Malta |
| 1804 |
Travels to Malta and Mediterranean in an attempt to regain health and kick opium |
| 1805 |
Appointed Acting Public Secretary in Malta |
| 1805 |
Leaves Malta; tours Syracuse, Naples, Rome, Florence, Pisa, Leghorn; returns to England |
| 1808 |
Begins first lecture series on poetry and principles of taste, Royal Institution |
| 1809 |
Produces The Friend, political/philosophical periodical until 1810 |
| 1811 |
Writes for Courier |
| 1814 |
Under the care of Dr. Daniel for opium addiction & suicidal depression |
| 1815 |
Biographia Literaria published |
| 1824 |
Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, receives annuity |
| 1828 |
Publishes Poetical Works (3 volumes) and Work without Hope |
| 1828 |
Tours Netherlands and Rhine with William & Dora Wordsworth |
| 1834 |
Dies 25 July |
