| Timeline |
| 1837 |
Born 5 April |
| 1849 |
Attends Eton |
| 1856 |
Attends Balliol College, Oxford, meets William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and Gabriel Rossetti |
| 1860 |
The Queen Mother and Rosamond published |
| 1862 |
Lives with Rossetti at Tudor House in Chelsea |
| 1865 |
Atalanta in Calydon published |
| 1865 |
Chastelard published |
| 1866 |
Poems and Ballads published |
| 1867 |
A Song of Italy published |
| 1868 |
William Blake: A Critical Essay |
| 1871 |
Songs before Sunrise published |
| 1874 |
Bothwell published |
| 1875 |
Songs of Two Nations, Essays and Studies |
| 1876 |
Erechtheus |
| 1877 |
A Year's Letters published under the pseudonym Mrs. Horace Manners, father dies |
| 1878 |
Poems and Ballads, Second Series |
| 1879 |
Suffers breakdown, moves in with his legal advisor, Theodore Watts-Duncan |
| 1880 |
A Study of Shakespeare, Songs of the Springtides, Studies in Song, The Heptalogia, or The Seven Against Sense |
| 1881 |
Mary Stuart published |
| 1882 |
Tristram of Lyonesse published |
| 1883 |
A Century of Roundels |
| 1884 |
A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems |
| 1885 |
Marino Faliero |
| 1887 |
Gathered Songs, Locrine |
| 1889 |
Study of Ben Jonson, Poems and Ballads, Third Series |
| 1892 |
The Sisters |
| 1894 |
Astrophel and Other Poems and Studies in Prose and Poetry |
| 1896 |
The Tale of Balen, Swinburne's mother dies |
| 1899 |
Rosamund, Queen of the Lombards |
| 1904 |
A Channel Passage and Other Poems |
| 1908 |
The Age of Shakespeare and The Duke of Gandia |
| 1909 |
Three Plays of Shakespeare, dies 10 April |
