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birth
Dublin, Ireland, then part of the United Kingdom. -
study
He was educated at home until the age of nine, showing a remarkable intelligence and a particular flair for French and German. With 10 years.entered the Port Royal School of Enniskillen (Ireland) and studied there until seventeen. -
Trinity College admission
During his stay there he died his sister Isola, which inspired his poem Requiescat.
On October 19, 1871 entered Trinity College (Dublin), 4 where he studied classics for the next three years. -
Thanks to a grant
Thanks to a grant of £ 95 per year, 8 on October 17, 1874 entered at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he continued his studies until 1878. Just as he had been more successful at Trinity than at Portora, Wilde was meant to have much greater at Oxford than in Dublin. He had the advantage of going to Oxford a little later than they usually go the other, twenty instead of eighteen. -
his father died
He was placed in the first class Moderations in 1876. During your stay at this school his father died, on April 19, 1876. -
earned a Bachelor of Arts.
graduating with the highest possible grade. Wilde remained in Oxford from late 1874 until the summer of 1878, during which he managed to become a well known personality in the university. -
arrival in London
March to London, and established residence there. -
Wrote his first drama.
Wrote his first drama, Vera, or the Nihilists. -
First edition of his work.
Appears the first edition of his poetry, published by Bogue -
Travel to the U.S.
Travel to the United States, as a lecturer. -
He returned to London and going to Paris soon.
Going back to London and then to Paris, where he settled a few months. Write The Duchess of Padua there. At the end of the year traveling to New York for the premiere of Vera, or the Nihilists, which fails. -
Married.
He married Constance Lloyd, daughter of a wealthy lawyer in Dublin, and has lived in his famous Tite Street house in London's exclusive Chelsea neighborhood. -
their first child.
Cyril was born, her first child. -
her second child.
Vyvyan was born, her second child. Meet Robert Ross -
He runs a women's magazine, The Woman's World.
He runs a women's magazine, The Woman's World. Published his first short stories in magazines. -
period of literary activity
This year begins a rising literary activity, which lasts until the great crisis in the life of Wilde. In this year 1888 appears The Happy Prince and Other Tales. -
He published his first essays.
He published his first essays, and his famous portrait of Mr. WH. It also leaves the direction of The Woman's World -
Publication of The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Publication of The Picture of Dorian Gray for the first time in Lippincott's Magazine. -
Exits Intentions presses.
Exits Intentions presses, book of essays including The Decay of Lying and The Critic as Artist. And published books of stories and tales: The Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories and A House of Pomegranates. -
Premiere of Lady Windermere's Fan at the St. James's Theatre.
Premiere of Lady Windermere's Fan at the St. James's Theatre. It starts rehearsing Salomé, written in French, in June this year, by Sarah Bernhaerdt for release in the Palace Theatre, London. And that's when the Lord Chamberlain denies license for its representation, biblical characters appear in the play. -
Premiere of A Woman of No Importance.
Premiere of A Woman of No Importance. -
Appearance of his poem The Sphinx.
Appearance of his poem The Sphinx. They publish their Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of Youth, in the journal Chameleon, which were a source of charge, later in the process. Also that year the first edition goes Salome, translated in English by Lord Alfred Douglas, and illustrated by Aubrey Beardseley. -
An Ideal Husband opens.
On January 3, at the Haymarket Theatre Royal, An Ideal Husband opens, and in February of the same year, at the St. James's Theatre, The Importance of Being Earnest. In March this year, Wilde promotes a lawsuit against the Marquess of Queensberry for libel, lawyer Edward Carson subjected to rigorous questioning the applicant, which brings to the arrest of Oscar Wilde, who was indicted in the court of the Old Bailey and sentenced to two years hard labor on 27 May. -
His mother dies.
Death of his mother, which he wrote in his famous De Profundis directed to Lord Alfred Douglas: "I have spoken to your mother with some bitterness, and I urge you to let you read this letter, mostly for your sake. If it is painful to read such an accusation against one of his sons, let him remember that my mother, who is currently at the height of Elizabeth Barrett Browling intellectual, and historically that of Madame Roland, died, wounded in the depths of your heart for the son, of whose gen -
Out of Jail Free Reading.
Out of Jail Free Reading May 19. Bernaval goes to live in France. Directs his first letter to the Daily Chronicle, published on May 28. -
Death of his wife.
Death of his wife. Berneval leaves and goes to Paris, where he lived under the name Sebastian Melmoth. Published for the first time The Ballad of Reading Gaol, written during his stay in Berneval. Send his second letter to the Daily Chronicle, published March 24. -
Visit Sicily and Rome in the spring.
Visit Sicily and Rome in the spring. October is operated acute otitis, on November 30 of that year, he died in Paris at the Hôtel d'Alsace, no. 13, Rue des Beaux Arts, a result of an attack of meningitis. Before he died, and in full possession of his mental faculties, is converted to the Catholic faith, receiving the waters of baptism. -
incomplete.
First appears De Profundis, incomplete. -
First complete edition.
First complete edition of the works of Oscar Wilde (Methuen, London). -
It publishes the De Profundis that had remained unpublished.
It publishes the De Profundis that had remained unpublished, by Oscar Wilde's son, Vyvyan Holland. They move his remains to the cemetery of Pere Lachaise.
