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Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, at Portsea on the southern coast of England. http://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/life/childhood/
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The first chapters of The Pickwick Papers are published. Charles gets married to Catherine Hogarth.
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The first of his 10 children, Charles Culliford Boz Dickens, is born. Mary Hogarth, Catherine’s sister, dies. The publication of Oliver Twist begins.
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Dickens and Hablot Browne travel to Yorkshire to see the boarding schools. Publication of Nicholas Nickleby begins.
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Barnaby Rudge is published. Charles and Catherine go on a tour in Scotland. Their son, Walter, is born.
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Charles Dickens and his family travel to Switzerland. Charles starts the publication of Dombey and Son begins.
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Catherine Dickens his wife, suffers a nervous collapse. John Dickens, the father of Charles Dickens, dies.
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Charles Dickens is involved in the Staplehurst railway accident along with Ellen Ternan and her mother.
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Dickens gives his final public reading. Publication of The Mystery of Edwin Drood begins. Charles Dickens dies at Gad’s Hill Place on June 9.
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In the year 1884 Dickens's criticism of America was unbuckled, in Charles's 6th novel Martin Chuzzelwit.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1990.Martin_Chuzzlewit
