| Timeline |
| 1812 |
Born 7 May in Camberwell, a London suburb |
| 1820 |
Takes up school, as a weekly boarder in Peckham |
| 1826 |
Begins writing poetry |
| 1828 |
Attends London University for a semester then returns home (where he lives well into his thirties) |
| 1833 |
Pauline, A Fragment of a Confession published anonymously |
| 1834 |
Travels across Europe to Saint Petersburg, Russia |
| 1835 |
Paracelsus published |
| 1837 |
Strafford published |
| 1838 |
Visits Italy for the first time |
| 1840 |
Sordello published |
| 1842 |
Dramatic Lyrics published |
| 1845 |
of Dramatic Romances and Lyrics published |
| 1845 |
Writes a letter to Elizabeth Barrett praising her poetry, meets her and falls in love |
| 1846 |
Secretly marries Elizabeth Barrett, they settle in Florence, Italy |
| 1849 |
Becomes a father when son, Robert, is born |
| 1850 |
Christmas Eve and Easter Day published |
| 1851 |
Visits Paris and London and meets Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Charles Kingsley, and Tennyson. |
| 1855 |
Men and Women published |
| 1861 |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning dies, Robert moves to London with his son |
| 1864 |
Dramatis Personae published |
| 1868 |
The Ring and the Book published |
| 1880 |
The Browning Society established in London |
| 1889 |
Asolando, his last collection of poems, published |
| 1889 |
Dies 12 December in Venice of bronchitis and is buried in Poets' Comer of Westminster Abbey
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