1824 (8 January) Born at 11 New Cavendish Street, st. Marylebone, London, elder son of William Collins, R.A, artist and popular landscape painter, and Harriet Collins.

1829 Family moves to Hampstead Square.

1835 Attending Maida Hilla Academy.

1843 (August) First publication, "The Last Stage Coachman" in The Illiminated Magazine.

1846 Enteers Lincoln's Inn as law student.

1848 (November) First published book, Memoirs of the Life of William Collins, R.A.

1851 Meets Dickens for first time.

1852 Tours provinces with Dicken's theatrical company.

1855 First play, The Lighthouse, performed by Dicken's aun Augustus Egg.

1856 After Dark.

1857 The Dead Secret in Household Words, The Frozen Deep performed by Dicken's theatrical company, The Lighthouse at Olympic Theatre.

1859 Meets Mrs. Caroline Elizabeth Graves, the "original" of the Woman in White.

1859 The Woman in White in All the Year Roud; published in volume form 15 August 1860.

1862 No Name in All the Year Round.

1867 Collaborated wihh Dickens on No Thoroughfare, published in Christmas Number of All the Year Round.

1870 Man and Wife in Cassell's Magazine; published in volume form (June).

1871 (October)-1872 (March) Poor Miss Finch in Cassell's Magazine.

1872 The New Magdalen in Temple Bar.

1875 The Law and the Lady.

1876 The Two Destinies.

1890 Blind Love (completed by Walter Besant).

1895 (June) Caroline dies and is buried in Wilkie Collins's grave.