Chronology

c.1730: born, son of an Irish clergyman

1744: entered Trinity College, Dublin

1747: ran away to Cork, perhaps with intention to sail to America

1749: graduated with BA from TCD

1752: to Edinburgh, Scotland, to study medicine

1755-6: visited France, Switzerland, Italy

1756: returned to London; was physician at Southwark

1762: Citizen of the World ("Chinese Letters") published

1764: The Traveller (poem); Lord Clare became his patron

1766: The Vicar of Wakefield sold for him by Dr Johnson

1768: Goodnatured Man produced at Covent Garden

1769: History of Rome

1770: lives of Thomas Parnell, Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke published

1770: The Deserted Village

1771: an English history published

1773: She Stoops to Conquer at Covent Garden

1774: The Retaliation; The History of Greece; A history of the earth and animated nature

1774: died

Sources:

Austin Dobson, Life of Oliver Goldsmith (London: W. Scott 1888)
The Concise Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: University Press 1992)
 

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