-
On June 2 Thomas Hardy was born at Higher Bockhampton, Dorset, eldest child of a builder, his parents were Thomas Hardy, and Jemima Hand. -
On this year Thomas started schooling in Dorset. Hardy's mother was an educated woman who taught him to read before he attended school. Hardy had a difficult childhood due to his family's poverty and lack of educational opportunities. However, his mother instilled in him a love of literature and poetry that would influence his career as a writer. -
After finishing school Thomas met Dorchester architect John Hicks, later to become his assistant. During the late 1850s developed his important friendship with Horace Moule, who becomes his intellectual mentor and encourages his self-education in literature -
Thomas was employed as a draughtsman by the architect Arthur Bloomfield. Hardy's self-education continues, incorporating earlier English writers, lectures, art galleries and operas. -
Completes his first novel The Poor Man and the Lady but it is rejected for publication. -
Meets Emma Lavinia Gifford, his future wife, on a professional visit to St. Juliot in north Cornwall.
-
1871: He wrote Desperate Remedies. It was his second novel
One year later, he published "Under the Greenwood Tree". 1898: He also wrote several books of poetry. -
He wrote "A Pair of Blue Eyes" -
He wrote another of his famous books, called "Far From the Madding Crowd". Hardy marries Emma and they live in Surbiton, London. -
"The return of the native" -
"The woodlanders" -
"Judge the obscure" -
He also wrote several books of poetry. -
Hardy's mother Jemima dies from a tuberculosis leaving Thomas devastated.
-
Hardy meets Florence Dugdale, who would later become his second wife.
-
Hardy is awarded the Order of Merit, having previously refused a knighthood.
-
Emma dies
-
1924: Dramatized version of one of hardy's books gets performed, the main actrees was Gertrude Bugler
-
Hard dies. His heart is buried with Emma in Stinsford, his ashes in Westminster Abbey. Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres published posthumously. Hardy's brother Henry dies.