1812 - Feb 7 Dickens born in Landport, Portsmouth
1812 - Jun 24 John Dickens moves family to Hawke Street, Kingston, Portsea
1814 - John Dickens transferred to Somerset House, London
1815 - Catherine Hogarth, Dickens' future wife, born
1817 - John Dickens moves family to Chatham
1821 - Dickens starts school at William Giles School, Chatham
1822 - John Dickens transferred to London, moves family to 16 Bayham Street, Camden Town
1824 - Feb John Dickens imprisoned at Marshalsea for debt
1824 - Feb Dickens leaves school, employed at Warren's Blacking House
1824 - Mar John Dickens released from debtors prison
1824 - Jun Dickens leaves blacking factory, returned to school
1825 - John Dickens retires with small pension
1827 - John Dickens evicted from home, Dickens removed from school
1827 - Dickens begins work as solicitor's clerk, Ellis and Blackmore, Gray's Inn
1828 - Dickens working as a reporter for the Morning Herald
1829 - Dickens becomes a freelance reporter at Doctor's Common
1831 - Dickens reporting for the Mirror of Parliament
1832 - Dickens reporting for the True Sun
1833 - Dickens' first story, A Dinner at Poplar Walk, published in Monthly Magazine
1834 - Dickens meets Catherine Hogarth, 8 more stories published in Monthly Magazine
1836 - Dickens marries Catherine Hogarth, begins writing Pickwick
1837 - Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club published
1838 - Oliver Twist published
1839 - Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby published
1841 - The Old Curiosity Shop published
1841 - Barnaby Rudge published
1842 - Dickens first visit to America
1843 - A Christmas Carol published
1844 - Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit published
1845 - Dickens writes Cricket on the Hearth
1848 - Dombey and Son published
1850 - David Copperfield published
1853 - Bleak House published
1854 - Hard Times published
1857 - Little Dorrit published
1858 - Dickens and Catherine are legally separated
1859 - A Tale of Two Cities published
1861 - Great Expectations published
1865 - Our Mutual Friend published
1867 - Dickens second American visit
1869 - Dickens begins writing Edwin Drood (never completed)
1870 - Dickens dies, buried in Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey