| Timeline |
| 1784 |
Born 19 October at Southgate, Middlesex |
| 1792 |
Attends school at Christ Hospital |
| 1799 |
Leaves Christ Hospital |
| 1801 |
Juvenilia published |
| 1807 |
Classic Tales published |
| 1808 |
Editor of the Examiner |
| 1809 |
Marries Marianne |
| 1810 |
Edits the Reflector for his brother; son, Thornton Leigh Hunt, is born |
| 1813 |
Hunt is charged with libel after publishing an article criticizing the Prince Regent, he is imprisoned for two years |
| 1816 |
Story of Rimini published; becomes friends with Shelley & Keats |
| 1818 |
Foliage published |
| 1819 |
Hero and Leander and Bacchus and Ariadne published; starts the Indicator; son is born |
| 1821 |
Leaves for Italy |
| 1823 |
Ultra-Crepidarius, a Satire on William Gifford published |
| 1825 |
Returns to England |
| 1828 |
Lord Byron and some of his Contemporaries published; son, Swinburne, dies |
| 1830 |
Starts the Tatler |
| 1834 |
Starts Leigh Hunt's London Journal |
| 1837 |
Editor of the Monthly Repository |
| 1840 |
The play Legend of Florence is performed at Covent Garden |
| 1844 |
Imagination and Fancy published |
| 1846 |
Wit and Humour published |
| 1847 |
Men, Women and Books published; The crown grants a yearly pension to Hunt of £200 |
| 1848 |
The Town and A Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla published |
| 1849 |
A Book for a Corner published |
| 1850 |
His Autobiography is published |
| 1851 |
Table Talk published |
| 1852 |
Hunt's son, Vincent, dies |
| 1853 |
The Religion of the Heart published |
| 1855 |
Stories in Verse and The Old Court Suburb published |
| 1857 |
Hunt's wife, Marianne, dies |
| 1859 |
Dies 28 August at Putney |
