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Birth
John Keats was born near London -
Father Dies
His father fell off a horse and died from a skull fracture -
Mother Leaves
His mother left him and his three living siblings and put them in the care of their grandmother -
Mother Returns
His mother returned but she has tuberculosis, and dies a year later -
Withdraws
Abbey, the Keats family's new guardian, took all their inheritance money and make John quit school to be a surgeon -
Starts Medical School
John starts medical school and begins writing poems for fun -
Leaves Medicine
John leaves medicine and decides to become a poet for real -
Poems Published
John gets his first book of poems published -
Endymion
Keats gets his first major long poem published -
Tuberculosis
John finds out he has early signs of tuberculosis -
Death
Keats dies in Italy