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Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde born in Dublin.
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Oscar began studying classics at Trinity College Dublin
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Oscar began studies at Magdalen College, Oxford (UK)
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Oscar won Newdigate Prize for his poem Ravenna ; he takes degree.
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Oscar settled in London
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Poems published
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Oscar began one year lecture tour of North America
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Duchess of Padua (play) written
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Oscar married Constance Lloyd and lived in Chelsea (London)
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Oscar elder son, Cyril, born; writes reviews for Pall Mall Gazette
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Oscar younger son, Vyvyan, born
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He became editor of Woman's World; The Canterville Ghost written
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The Happy Prince and Other Tales
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The Portrait of Mr. W. H, A House of Pomegranates, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Lord Arthur
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Lady Windermere's Fan produced; Salomé (written in French) banned
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A Woman of No Importance produced; The Sphinx written
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Salomé published
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An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest produced sued Marquess of Queensbury for libel
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sued by Marquess of Queensbury; found guilty of "unnatural practices"; sent to Reading Gaol (Berkshire)
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De Profundis written; released from prison; lived in France, Italy and Switzerland; adopted name of Sebastian Melmoth
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Ballad of Reading Gaol published; death of his wife, Constance
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Oscar died in France; buried at Père Lachaise cemetery, Paris
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Oscar Wilde Life
