| Timeline |
| 1822 |
Born 24 December in Laleham-on-Thames |
| 1828 |
Moves to Rugby School |
| 1847 |
Appointed as private secretary to Lord Landsdowne |
| 1849 |
"The Strayed Reveller and other Poems" published |
| 1851 |
Appointed Inspector of Schools |
| 1851 |
Marries Fanny Lucy Wightman |
| 1852 |
Publishes "Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems" |
| 1853 |
"Poems", with the famous "preface" (Arnold's first important critical essay), published |
| 1855 |
"Poems, Second Series" published |
| 1861 |
"On Translating Homer" published |
| 1865 |
"Essays in Criticism" published |
| 1867 |
"On the Study of Celtic Literature" published |
| 1867 |
Elected professor of poetry at Oxford University |
| 1867 |
Resigns chair at Oxford. |
| 1869 |
"Culture and Anarchy" published |
| 1871 |
"Friendship's Garland" published |
| 1873 |
"Literature and Dogma" published |
| 1883 |
First tour of America |
| 1888 |
Dies 15 April of a heart attack. He is buried at Laleham |
