| May 7, | 1812. | Robert Browning born in Camberwell, London. |
| 1824. | Incondita ready for publication. |
| 1825. | Shelley and Keats read. |
| 1826. | Left Mr. Ready's school. |
| 1833. | Pauline published anonymously. |
| 1833-4. | Travels in Russia and Italy. |
| 1835. | Paracelsus. |
| 1837. | Strafford. Acted May 1, 1837, Covent Garden. |
| 1840. | Sordello. |
| 1841-6. | Bells and Pomegranates. |
| 1841. | No. I. Pippa Passes. |
| 1842. | No. II. King Victor and King Charles. |
| 1842. | No. III. Dramatic Lyrics. |
| 1843. | No. IV. The Return of the Druses. |
| 1843. | No. V. A Blot in the 'Scutcheon. Acted Feb. 11, 1843, Drury Lane. |
| 1844. | No. VI. Colombe's Birthday. Acted April 25, 1853, Haymarket. |
| 1845. | No. VII. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics. |
| 1846. | No. VIII. Luria and A Soul's Tragedy. |
| Jan. 10, | 1845. | Correspondence between Mr. Browning and Miss Barrett begun. |
| May 20, | 1845. | Their first meeting. |
| Sept.12, | 1846. | Their marriage at Marylebone Church, London. |
| Oct. | 1846. | to April, 1847. In Pisa. |
| April 20, | 1847. | Arrival at Florence. |
| May | 1848. | Settled in permanent home at Casa Guidi. |
| 1849. | Poems by Robert Browning. Two volumes. |
| March9, | 1849. | Birth of Wiedemann (or "Penini") Browning. |
| March | 1849. | Death of Browning's mother. |
| 1850. | Christmas Eve and Easter Day. |
| June | 1851. | Mrs. Browning's Casa Guidi Windows. |
| 1852. | Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley. With an introductory essay by Robert Browning. |
| 1855. | Men and Women. In two volumes. |
| Oct. | 1856. | Mrs. Browning's Aurora Leigh. |
| June | 1860. | Browning found the "Yellow Book." |
| June29, | 1861. | Mrs. Browning died. She was buried in Florence. |
| July | 1861. | Browning left Florence. |
| 1862. | Established himself at 19 Warwick Crescent, London, where he lived twenty-five years. |
| 1863. | The Poetical Works of Robert Browning. In three volumes. Chapman and Hall. |
| 1863. | Selections from the Poetical Works of Robert Browning. [Editors, B.W. Proctor and John Forster.] |
| 1864. | Dramatis PersonÆ. |
| 1866. | Browning's father died and Sarianna came to live with her brother. |
| 1868. | The Poetical Works of Robert Browning. In six volumes. Smith, Elder and Company. |
| 1868-9. | The Ring and the Book. In four volumes. |
| 1871. | Balaustion's Adventure. |
| 1871. | Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, Saviour of Society. |
| 1872. | Fifine at the Fair. |
| 1873. | Red Cotton Night-Cap Country. |
| 1875. | Aristophanes' Apology. |
| 1875. | The Inn Album. |
| July | 1876. | Pacchiarotto and How He Worked in Distemper. |
| 1877. | The Agamemnon of Æschylus translated. |
| 1878. | La Saisiaz; The Two Poets of Croisic. |
| Aug. | 1878. | Browning first revisited Italy. |
| 1879. | Dramatic Idyls. |
| 1880. | Dramatic Idyls. Second Series. |
| 1881. | The London Browning Society established. |
| 1883. | Jocoseria. |
| 1884. | Ferishtah's Fancies. |
| 1887. | Browning moved to De Vere Gardens. |
| 1887. | Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning. Riverside edition: Houghton, Mifflin and Company. |
| 1888-9. | The Poetical Works Works of Robert Browning. In sixteen volumes. Smith, Elder and Company. [All the works collected by the author except Asolando.] |
| Dec. 12, | 1889. | Asolando. |
| Dec. 12, | 1889. | Robert Browning died in the Palazzo Rezzonica, his son's home in Venice. |
| Dec. 31, | 1889. | Buried in Westminster Abbey. |
