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Lord Byron was born
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Percy Shelley was born.
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Mary Shelley is born.
Shelley is the only child of the feminist, Mary Wollstonecraft. -
Lord Byron Goes to Cambridge
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Lord Byron's first book of poetry is published.
It is called Fugitive Pieces. -
Mary Shelley's first poem is published.
Shelley's first poem, Mounseer Nongtongpaw, is published. -
Percy Shelley enrolls in Oxford.
At university, Shelley rarely attends class and ignores his studies. -
Percy is expelled from Oxford.
He is expelled from university after he publishes his paper "The Necessity of Atheism." -
Percy is married to Harriet Westbrook.
Percy runs away to Scotland, with 16 year old, Harriet Westbrook. -
Byron appears before the House of Lords.
There he gives his first speech as a member of Parliament. -
Percy publishs his poem Queen Mab.
Queen Mab is about Shelley's political views. -
Mary Shelley meets Percy.
Mary meets Percy Bysshe Shelley, who is an young poet and has an interest in her father, who works as as the owner of a press. -
Mary and Percy elope.
The already married, Percy Shelly and then Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, run away to Europe, with her sister Claire Clairmont. -
Mary gives birth to her and Percy's first daughter.
The Shelley's first daughter, named Clara, is two months premature and died only a few weeks after she was born. -
The Shelley's have their second child.
Mary gives birth to her and Percy's second child, William. -
Byron sails to Europe
He travels to Europe to escape accusations from his ex-wife, and there he spends his time with his lover, Claire Clairmont, and her half-sister and brother-in-law, Mary and Percy Shelley. -
Mary creates the idea of her novel, Franenstien.
During a summer holiday in Switzerland, accompanied by Byron and Clairmont, a game is sugguested to see who can write the best horror story. During this the idea of Mary's famous book is created. -
Percy's wife dies, and him and Mary get married.
Percy's wife commits sucicide, allowing Mary and himself to get married, on the 30th of December in London. -
Clair Clairmont gives birth to her and Byron's daughter.
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Mary gives birth to the couple's thrid child, and writes about her elopement.
Percy and Mary have their third child, Clara Everina, and then History of a Six Weeks' Tour is published. -
Frankenstien is published.
Mary publishes Frankenstien anonymously, which creates major success. -
Clara Everina dies of dysentery.
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John Keats dies, and Percy writes a poem as an elegy for him.
The poem Adonais is published as an elegy for Percy's late friend and fellow poet, John Keats. -
William dies from malaria.
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The Shelley's have their last child.
Percy Florence is the couple's only child to survive his childhood, and live into his seventies. -
Percy Shelley Dies
Shelley drowns while sailing, off the Gulf of Spezia. -
Valperga is published by Mary.
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Byron falls ill.
Byron catches a fever which gets continueously worse, while docters try to use bloodletting to cure him. -
Byron Dies
In Missolonghi, Greece, Byron dies at the age of 36. -
Mary Shelley dies.
Mary dies from a brain tumor, in her London home.