Age...
YearBorn... 1792 13 November, in London or Cornwall.
12... 1804 To Portsmouth, where he joins the Royal Navy.
13... 1805 15 October, his name is entered on the books of HMS Superb as volunteer first class. In November he is transferred to the HMS Temeraire and a few days later to the Colossus, then to a naval school near Plymouth.[[Image:Turner, J. M. W. - The Fighting Téméraire tugged to her last Berth to be broken.jpg|thumb|300px|The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up
by J. M. W. Turner,1838]]14... 1806 Aboard HMS Woolwich. (Serves under Capt. Francis Beaufort who devised the well known wind force scale.) Returns to England via the Cape and St. Helena.
16... 1808 Brief stop in Plymouth, then aboard the frigate Resistance.
17... 1809 Returns to England, transfers to the frigate Cornelia, bound for
Bombay.
18... 1810 29 November, aboard the Cornelia (with the British
invasion force off Mauritius.) Returns to India, and boards the refitted [[HMS Akbar]].
19-... 1811 Java, 22 or 23 August, where he may have been wounded;
transfers to the [[HMS Piedmontaise]].
19... 1812 12 August, arrives back in England. Leaves the navy; his
family takes him down to Cornwall to recuperate.
21... 1813 Married to Caroline Addison. Takes up lodging in London,
soon moves to Bristol.
22... 1814 A daughter is born.
23... 1815 Receives final pay settlement from the Navy. His father
gives him an allowance of £300 per annum.
24... 1816 Wife Caroline elopes with a Captain Coleman.
25... 1817 9 July, wins case for damages against Captain Coleman.
26-27 1818-19 Period of self-education reading Shakespeare, Milton, Byron, etc. Final divorce from Caroline. Accompanies his mother and sisters to Paris.
28-29 1820 - 21 July 1820, his mother returns to England. He moves on to Switzerland, meeting up with his friend Daniel Roberts. Purchases a copy of Shelley’s
Queen Mab. Meets Edward E. Williams. (Trelawny was on H.M.S.
Superb in 1805, Williams was on the same ship in 1807.) Receives news of his father’s death and leaves for England. Returns to Geneva after learning his inheritance is limited to a life income of £300 per annum.
29... 1822 14 January — 7 July, arrives in Pisa; meets the Shelleys, Byron and
[[Claire Clairmont]]. Happiest days of his life.
29... 1822 8 July, he sees Shelley and Williams sail off in the
Don Juan. Later
that day they are drowned when their boat is swamped in freak storm.
29... 1822 17 and 18 July, bodies of Shelley and Williams are found.
29... 1822 15 August, he orchestrates the cremation of Shelley.
29... 1822 Falls in love with Claire.
30... 1823 Sails with Byron to Greece. Joins Odysseus Androutsos's cause.
31... 1824 19 April, Byron dies in Missolonghi.
31... 1824 26 May, moves into Odysseus’s Cave on Mount Parnassus.
32... 1825 Marries Tersitsa, Odysseus’s half-sister.
33... 1825 In Odysseus’s Cave an assassination attempt; he is badly wounded.
In Athens, Odysseus is found strangled.
33-35 1825-27 Recovers from his wounds. Tersitsa gives birth to a girl (Zella).
Divorced from Tersitsa.
36... 1828 Returns to Cornwall. In November, visits with Mary Shelley.
Brief meeting with Claire in Italy.
37... 1829 Moves to Florence. Charles Armitage Brown, Walter Savage Landor,
and [[Joseph Severn]] enter his life. Begins writing his biography.
38... 1831
Adventures of a Younger Son is published; it becomes a “best-seller”
providing him with much needed funds.
39... 1832 5 January, leaves London for Liverpool and ships off to the United States.
40... 1833 Swims the Rapids at Niagara Falls, almost drowns.
41... 1834 Travels throughout the United States.
42... 1834 Spending time with Fanny Kemble. In December he decides to
return to England.
43... 1835 Politics (The Philosophical Radicals) and the Social Scene.
44... 1836 Regular correspondence with Claire. Severs relationship with
Mary Shelley.
47... 1839 Contributes short story, "Sahib Tulwar," to a publication of
Lady Blessington. Leaves London for Putney, with Augusta
Goring, his new-found love.
48-66 1839-58 Retirement in Monmouthshire. They have three children. His second book,
Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron, is published in 1858. The marriage breaks up, and Augusta moves to Italy; he, to London.
67-77 1859-69 Living in London. In 1869, resumes correspondence with Clair.
After years of being the center of attention, he retires to the south
coast of England.
78... 1870 Enjoying retirement in the village of Sompting. His daughter by
Augusta is living with him. Many letters to and from Claire.
82... 1874 Sits as a model for the old man in Millais’ painting,
The North West Passage''.
83... 1875 Continues corresponding with Claire.
84... 1876 Correspondence to and from Claire appears to come to an end.
85... 1878 Rewrite of Recollections is published:
Records of Shelley, Byron and the Author.''
86... 1879 19 March, death of Claire.
88... 1881 After suffering a fall while out walking, he takes to his bed
and a few days later, on 13 August, quietly passes away.
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