Chronology 2
1689 Richardson was born in Mackworth,Derbyshire.
1706 In this year,at the age of seventeen,Richardson was bound in the seven-year apprenticeship under John Wilde as a printer.
1713 Richardson left Wilde to become ''Overseer and Corrector of a Printing-Office''.
1719 Richardson was able to take his freedom from being an apprentice and was soon able to afford to set up his own printing shop.
1721 He married Martha Wilde,the daughter of his former employer,on 23 November of this year,
1722 On 6 August he took on his first apprentices:Thomas Gover,George Mitchell and Joseph Chrichley.
1727 He takes on William Price(2 May),Samuel Jolley(5 September)
1729 He takes also on Bethell Wellington(2 September)
1730 He finally takes on Halhed Garland(5 May)
1723 Richardson began to print the bi-weekly The True Briton for Philip Wharton.(June)
1724 Samuel befriended Thomas Gent,Henry Woodfall and Arthur Onslow,the latter of those would become in the Speaker of the House of Commons.
1731 Martha,his wife, died on 25 January.
1732 Their youngest son,Samuel,was succumbed to illness.
1733 Richardson was granted a contract with the House of Commons,with help from Osnlo,to print the Journals of the House.He also wrote,but later in this year,The Apprentice's Vade Mecum.
1732-1734 He takes more apprentices:Thomas Verren(1 August 1732),Richard Smith(6 February 1733),Matthew Stimson(7 August 1733) and Daniel Green(1 October 1734).
1736-1737 He printed The Daily Journal.
1738 He printed the Daily Gazetteer.He leases a house in Fulham(December).
1739 Richardson was asked by his friends Charles Rivington and John Osborn to write ''a little volume of Letters,in a common style,on such subjects as might be of use to those country readers,who were unable to indite for themselves''.
1740 He published Pamela:Or,Virtue Rewarded.
1741 Was published a sequel of Pamela called Pamela's Conduct in High Life by Ward en Chandler.Samuel published two more volumes in December to tell of further exploits of Pamela.
1742 He printed the third edition of Daniel Defoe's Tour through Great Britain.
1744 Was known a information about a new novel and this happened when he sent John Hill two chapters to read.In July Richardson sent Hill a complete ''design'' of the story.
1746 He completes finally the novel.
1748 Samuel starts helping Sarah Fielding and her friend,Jane Collier to write novels.His novel Clarissa was finally printed in its seven volums by this year.
1749 He printed an edition of Young's Night Thoughts.
1752 Was being finalized the novel The History of Sir Charles Grandison.
1753 Was being printed The History of Sir Charles Grandison.
1754 Richardson and his family moved from Grange to a home at Parson's Green.
1758 Samuel began to suffer from insomnia.
1761 He was afflicted with apoplexy.
1762 Samuel Richardson died on 4 July at Parson's Green and burried at St. Bride's church near his first wife Martha.
I have personally elaborated this chronology of Samuel Richardson with information from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Richardson
Date when I used this page:05/11/2008