| Timeline |
| 1809 |
Born 6 August at Somersby rectory, Lincolnshire |
| 1815 |
Attends Louth Grammar School until 1820 |
| 1827 |
Poems by Two Brothers published |
| 1827 |
Enters Trinity College, Cambridge |
| 1829 |
Receives chancellor's Gold Medal for prize poem Timbuctoo
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| 1832 |
Poems published |
| 1843 |
Loses fortune in "wood carvings by steam" venture |
| 1844 |
Nervous breakdown |
| 1845 |
Receives Civil List pension |
| 1847 |
The Princess published |
| 1850 |
In Memoriam published anonymously |
| 1850 |
Appointed Poet Laureate |
| 1855 |
Maud published |
| 1869 |
The Holy Grail and Other Poems published |
| 1872 |
Gareth and Lynette published |
| 1875 |
Queen Mary published |
| 1880 |
Ballads and Other Poems published |
| 1881 |
The Cup published |
| 1883 |
Accepts barony |
| 1885 |
Tiresias and Other Poems published |
| 1886 |
Locksley Hall Sixty Years After published |
| 1892 |
Dies 6 October |
