Charles Dickens Timeline.

The following is a list of important dates in the life of the Victorian writer Charles Dickens and key contemporary events that occurred in society.

1785.

• August (21). John Dickens was born in London, the son of William Dickens and Elizabeth Ball.

1789.

• December (21). Elizabeth Barrow is born, the daughter of Charles Barrow and Mary Culliford.

1809.

• June (13). John Dickens marries Elizabeth Barrow at St Mary-le-Strand, London.

1810.

• October (28). Frances “Fanny” Dickens (1810 – 1848) born.

1812.

• February (7). Charles John Huffam Dickens, son of John Dickens and Elizabeth Barrow in Landport, Portsmouth.

• March (4). Charles christened at St. Marys Church in Landport, Portsmouth.

• May (11). Tory prime minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated.

1814.

• March. Alfred Dickens born. He died in September of the same year.

1815.

• January. John Dickens is posted from Portsmouth to the London Navy Pay Office.

• Family rent rooms above a grocery shop at Norfolk Street.

1816.

• Letitia Dickens (1816 – 1893) born.

1817.

• John Dickens is posted to Kent, briefly to Sheerness and then Chatham.

1818.

1819.

• Harriet Dickens (1819 – 1827) born.

• August (16). Peterloo massacre in Manchester.

1820.

• John Dickens writes a story for The Times.

• Frederick Dickens (1820 – 1868) born.

• February (23). Cato Street Conspiracy. A plot to kill the whole cabinet of government is thwarted and the conspirators arrested.

1821.

• Dickens starts at William Giles school in Chatham.

1822.

• The Dickens family moves to Bayham Street in Camden Town, London.

• Alfred Dickens (1822 – 1860) born.

1823.

• April. Fanny Dickens enrolled at Royal Academy of Music.

• Summonses issued against the Dickens family for non payment of debts.

• December (26). Dickens family move to Gower Street North.

1824.

• February. Charles Dickens starts work at Warren’s Blacking Factory.

• February (20). John Dickens arrested for debt and sent to the Marshalsea Prison.

• May (28). John Dickens released from the Marshalsea Prison.

1825.

• Dickens is schooled at the Wellington House Academy.

• John Dickens retires on a pension of £145 a year.

1826.

• Charles’s studies continue at Wellington House Academy, but his family’s financial situation worsens and makes the costs of schooling for Fanny and Charles increasingly unbearable.

1827.

• March. Dickens family are evicted for non-payment of rates.

• Dickens leaves Wellington House Academy.

• Starts work as a solicitor’s clerk at Gray’s Inn, London.

• Augustus Dickens (1827 – 1858) born.

1828.

• The Dickens family moves back to lodgings above a grocer’s shop at Norfolk Street.

1829.

• Dickens becomes a freelance reporter at the Doctors’ Commons.

1830.

• Dickens meets Maria Beadnell, his first love interest.

1831.

• Dickens works as a parliamentary reporter.

1832.

• Starts writing for The Mirror of Parliament.

1833.

• The relationship with Maria Beadnell ends.

• A Dinner at Poplar Walk, the first published work, appears in The Monthly Magazine.

1834.

• Dickens becomes a reporter on The Morning Chronicle.

• August. Begins using the pseudonym “Boz“.

• Autumn. Meets fellow writer at The Morning Chronicle and future father-in-law, George Hogarth.

• Autumn/Winter. Meets his future wife, Catherine Hogarth.

1835.

• January (31).The Evening Chronicle newspaper is launched. Dickens is commissioned to write a series of twenty Sketches of London for the paper. The first, Hackney-Coach Stands appears in the first edition.

• Becomes engaged to Catherine Hogarth.

• February (5). Visits Coldbath Fields and Newgate prisons, gathering material for his observations of London life. Writes to Catherine about his experiences.

• February (7). The sketch Gin-Shops is published in The Evening Chronicle.

• April (16). The sketch Greenwich Fair is published in The Evening Chronicle.

• September (27). The first of a number of sketches appears in Bell’s Weekly Messenger with the publication of Seven Dials.

• October. The publisher John Macrone offers Dickens £100 for the copyright of a collected edition of his newspaper sketches.

• November (5). In the morning Dickens visits the prisons of Coldbath Fields and Newgate. Returns to lodgings at Furnival’s Inn where he writes to Catherine Hogarth.

1836.

• February (8). Dickens first book, Sketches by Boz is published by the publisher John Macrone.

• March (31). The Pickwick Papers is first published. It is serialized monthly between March 1836 and October 1837.

• April (2). Dickens marries Catherine Hogarth at St. Lukes, Chelsea.

• April. Charles and Catherine honeymoon for a week in Chalk, Kent.

• April (18). Dickens holds a meeting with Robert Seymour, the then illustrator of the The Pickwick Papers. Two days later Seymour commits suicide.

• June. Sunday Under Three Heads, a campaign pamphlet under the name Timothy Sparks against a proposed law prohibiting all work and all recreation on Sunday, is published.

• August (22). Signs an agreement with Richard Bentley to write two novels.

• Dickens’s play The Strange Gentleman and the ballad-opera The Village Coquettes are staged at the St James’s Theatre.

• Resigns from The Morning Chronicle and The Evening Chronicle.

1837.

• January (6). The first of his 10 children, Charles Culliford Boz Dickens, is born.

• January (21). Dickens is first elected to join the Garrick Club.

• January (31). Oliver Twist is published between January 1837 and March 1839.

• March (6). Is She His Wife?, a comic burletta and Dickens’s most risqué work, opens at the St James’s Theatre.

• March (25). Dickens moves his new family from Furnival’s Inn into new lodgings at Doughty Street.

• April (3). The Peregrinations of Pickwick, W. L. Rede’s adaptation of The Pickwick Papers opens as a three-act burletta opens at Adelphi Theatre.

• May (3). Dickens attends anniversary dinner of the Literary Fund Society. Amongst other members present were Richard Bentley, John Macrone and William Ainsworth.

• May (7). Dickens attends a production of his Is She His Wife? at the St James’s Theatre with his wife Catherine, and her sister Mary Hogarth.

• May (8). In the early hours Mary Hogarth, Catherine’s sister, is taken ill. She dies that afternoon.

• May (13). Mary Hogarth is buried at Kensal Green cemetery.

• June (16). John Forster takes Dickens to see Othello at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. Forster introduces Dickens to the actor and theatre manager, William Charles Macready, who would become a close friend for the rest of his life.

June (20). Victoria becomes became Queen of the United Kingdom.

• June (30). Visits Coldbath Fields and Newgate prisons along with friends William Macready, John Forster, George Cattermole and Hablot Browne.

• July. Dickens and Catherine, along with friend Hablot Browne, take a week’s long holiday across the channel, from Calais to Ghent, Brussels, and Antwerp.

• September (9). John Macrone, Charles Dickens’s first publisher, dies aged 28.

• Dickens’ beloved older sister, Fanny, marries Henry Burnett.

1838.

• January (30). Dickens and Hablot Browne travel to Yorkshire to visit boarding schools.

• February. Dickens begins work on Nicholas Nickleby.

• March (6). Dickens’s second child, Mary, is born.

• March (30) – September 1839. Nicholas Nickleby is published.

• Dickens is elected a member of the Athenaeum club.

June (28). Coronation of Queen Victoria.

• September. Dickens and family holiday on the Isle of Wight, passing through Portsmouth en-route.

  September (17). London to Birmingham line opens and the railway boom begins.

• October (29/30). Dickens and Hablot Browne visit Leamington Spa en route to the Midlands and Wales.

• October (31). Dickens travels through the Midlands to Shrewsbury, staying overnight.

• November. Dickens resigns from the Garrick Club.

• November (19). First stage dramatization of Nicholas Nickleby opens at the Adelphi Theatre. Runs for over a hundred performances.

• November (21). Dickens visits Adelphi Theatre to see a performance of Nicholas Nickleby.

• December (5). Dickens visits William Charles Macready having written The Lamplighter for him.

• December (11). Along with John Forster, Dickens again visits William Charles Macready for a reading of The Lamplighter for him.

1839.

• March. Visits Exeter, rents a cottage in nearby Alphington for his parents.

• March (30). Dickens chairs a dinner given to William Charles Macready at the Shakespeare Club.

• April (30). Charles Dickens rents Elm Cottage, Petersham (until Aug 31) and spends a lot of that summer there.

• July (20). Dickens is a speaker at a banquet to honour William Charles Macready at the end of his tenure of Theatre Royal Covent Garden.

• September (20). Dickens finishes writing Nicholas Nickleby.

• October (5). A dinner to celebrate completion of Nicholas Nickleby is held at the Albion Tavern. Dickens is prseented with a portrait drawn by Daniel Maclise.

• October (23). Nicholas Nickleby is first published in one volume. The novel is dedicated to William Charles Macready.

• October (29). Dickens’s third child, Kate Macready, is born.

• December. The Dickens family move into large premises at Devonshire Terrace, near Regents Park.

1840.

• January (14). Dickens attends an inquest at Marylebone workhouse into death of the infant child of a young maid, Eliza Burgess.

• April. The Old Curiosity Shop is published weekly between April 1840 and February 1841.

• July (6). Dickens, along with William Makepeace Thackeray, attend the public hanging of François Benjamin Courvoisier outside Newgate Prison. A crowd of around 40,000 witness the execution.

1841.

• February. Barnaby Rudge. is published weekly between February and November.

• February (8). Their fourth child, Walter Savage Landor, is born.

• Charles and Catherine tour Scotland.

1842.

• January (2). Charles and Catherine travel to Liverpool, staying the night at the Adelphi Hotel in preparation for their journey to America.

• January (3). Charles and Catherine depart from Liverpool on the steamship SS Britannia to America.

• June (7). Departs America for England, sailing in the George Washington.

• June (29). Returns to Liverpool and departs for London.

• August (1). The Dickens family leave London to spend the summer in Broadstairs. Stay there two months.

• December (6). Charles and Catherine visit the St. John’s home of the poet and friend Thomas Hood, along with friend and painter Daniel Maclise.

1843.

• January. Martin Chuzzlewit is published monthly between January 1843 and July 1844.

• August – September. Spends the summer in Broadstairs.

• October (2). Returns to London from Broadstairs.

• October (5). Gives a speech to members of the Manchester Athenaeum on the virtues on education and learning at the institution.

• December (19). A Christmas Carol is published (in one volume). All 6,000 copies of the initial print run sell out within days.

1844.

• January (6). A pirated version of A Christmas Carol appears.

• February (5). Edward Stirling’s adaptation of A Christmas Carol opens at Adelphi Theatre.

• February (26). Gives a speech at the Liverpool Mechanics’ Institution.

• February (28). Gives a speech in aid of the Birmingham Polytechnic Institution.

• April (4). Dickens stays over at York to attend a funeral the following day.

• April (5). Dickens takes an early morning coach to Malton to attend the funeral of his friend Charles Smithson.

• Dickens’s fifth child, Francis Jeffrey (Frank) is born.

• Dickens and family travel to Italy for an extended stay.

• December (2). Gives a private reading of The Chimes at John Forster’s house.

1845.

• Summer. Works on a production of Every Man in his Humour.

• September (20). Stages Every Man in his Humour at Miss Kelly’s Theatre in Soho.

• October (28). Dickens’s sixth child, Alfred D’Orsay Tennyson, is born.

• November (3). Dickens co-founds and appointed first editor of a new morning paper, The Daily News.

1846.

• January (21). The Daily News first published.

• February (9). Dickens resigns as editor of the The Daily News.

• April (21). Alfred D’Orsay Tennyson, baptized at the church of St. Mary Marylebone.

• May (31). Dickens and his family set off for Switzerland.

• June (11). The Dickens family stay at the Villa Rosemont just outside Lausanne, Lake Geneva, Switzerland.

• June (30). Prime Minister Robert Peel resigns after the Corn Laws are repealed.

• October. Dombey and Son is published monthly between October 1846 and April 1848.

• November (16). Family leave Villa Rosemont and head for France.

• November (20). Dickens family arrive in Paris, initially staying at the Hotel Brighton and later renting a house at No. 48 Rue de Courcelles.

1847.

• March. Charles and Catherine Dickens return to London. Rents a house at 1 Chester Place, Regents Park from March – June.

• April (3). Withdraws Charley from King’s College School due to outbreak of Scarlet Fever.

• April (18). Dickens’s seventh child, Sydney Smith Haldimand, is born at Chester Place.

• June (27). Sydney Smith Haldimand baptized at the church of St. Mary in Marylebone.

• July (28). Appears at Theatre Royal Liverpool as a performer in an amateur performance of Every Man In His Humour.

• November. Urania Cottage opens.

1848.

• May (15). Dickens manages and performs at a charity night at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in aid of Shakespeare’s House at Stratford-upon-Avon.

• June (5). Appears in charity performance of The Merry Wives of Windsor in Liverpool.

• June (27). Appears in charity performance of The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Theatre Royal, Birmingham.

• September (2). Dickens’ beloved older sister, Fanny, dies.

• November (27). Stays at Bedford Hotel, Brighton.

• November (28). Stays at Bedford Hotel, Brighton.

• The Haunted Man, his last Christmas book is published.

1849.

• January (7). Sets off for a short holiday with Mark Lemon and John Leech, travelling to Norwich. Visits Norwich Cathedral and Stanfield Hall. The party then depart for Yarmouth, staying two days at the Royal Hotel.

• January (8). In Yarmouth. Walks to Lowestoft and back.

• January (9). Departs Yarmouth. Return to London, via Cambridge.

• January (16). Dickens’s eighth child, Henry Fielding Dickens, is born.

• May. David Copperfield is published monthly between May 1849 and November 1850.

• July – October. The Dickens family spend three months in Bonchurch, Isle of Wight.

• November (13). Dickens attends the execution of the Mannings at Horsemonger Lane Gaol. Writes a strongly worded letter to The Times newspaper later that day.

• November (27). Dickens visits Rockingham Castle.

• December (27). Dickens resigns his membership of the Garrick Club (for a second time).

1850.

• March (30). First edition of Household Words. The article The Amusements of the People, about theatre, is published in the first edition.

• August (16). Dickens’s ninth child, Dora Annie Dickens, is born.

1851.

• January (25). A Child’s History of England first appears in Household Words.

• February (15). Red Tape is published in Household Words.

• March. Introduced to Wilkie Collins.

• March (31). John Dickens, father of Charles, dies from a urethral infection

• April (14). Dora Dickens dies when she is only eight months old.

May (1). The Great Exhibition opens at the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London.

• May (10). Gives speech on sanitary reform at Gore House, Kensington.

• June (14). On Duty With Inspector Field is published in Household Words.

• Catherine Dickens suffers a nervous collapse and is sent to Malvern in Worcestershire for recuperation.

• What shall we have for Dinner?, a cookbook by Catherine Dickens is published.

1852.

February. Great Ormond Street Hospital opens.

• February (13/14). Appears at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall.

• March (13). A Sleep To Startle Us is published in Household Words.

• Bleak House is published monthly between March 1852 and September 1853.

• Dickens’s tenth child, Edward Bulwer Lytton (or “Plorn”), is born.

• July – October. Rents property over the Summer at Camden Crescent, Dover. The stay is interrupted by a tour with amateur players, taking in London, Nottingham, Derby, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Sunderland, Sheffield, Manchester and Liverpool.

• September (3). Appears at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall.

• October. Leaves Dover for Boulogne.

1853.

• January (10). Dickens gives his first public reading of one of his works, A Christmas Carol, in Birmingham.

• Dickens tours Italy.

  October. Outbreak of the Crimean War, initially between Russia and Turkey.

1854.

March (27). Britain joins the Crimean War.

• April (1). Hard Times begins serialisation in Household Words. it is published weekly between April and August.

• April (24). Dickens presides at a birthday dinner in honour of William Shakespeare, held at the Garrick Club.

1855.

• Dickens has a disappointing reunion with Maria Winter (Maria Beadnell).

• June (27). Gives a speech on administrative reform at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London.

• December. Little Dorrit is published monthly between December 1855 and June 1857.

• December (22). Gives a reading of A Christmas Carol in aid of the Sheffield Mechanics Institute.

1856.

March (30). The Treaty of Paris is signed, marking the end of the Crimean War.

• Dickens works with Wilkie Collins on The Frozen Deep.

• Dickens purchases Gad’s Hill Place, near Rochester in Kent.

• March (15). Arrives in Dover for an extended stay.

• May (23) Leaves Dover.

• December (6). The Wreck of the Golden Mary is published in the Christmas edition of Household Words.

1857.

• January Several performances of The Frozen Deep are put on at a theatre within Tavistock House. The theatre was demolished at the end of the month.

• February. Charles Dickens obtains possession of Gad’s Hill Place.

• April. Dickens, Catherine and Mary spend several days at Wate’s Hotel, Gravesend while work is being done at Gad’s Hill Place.

• Hans Christian Anderson visits Dickens at Gad’s Hill Place.

• May (10). Members of the Bengal army mutiny in India.

• Summer. Visits Canning Town. Describes the squalid conditions he finds there in an article entitled ‘Londoners over the border‘, published in Household Words on 12 September.

• Dickens meets Ellen Ternan.

1858.

• February (9). Gives talk at Freemasons’ Hall to help support Great Ormond Street Hospital.

• Dickens separates from his wife, Catherine.

• Spring/Summer. The Garrick Club Affair.

• July (12). Dickens resigns from the Committee of the Garrick Club.

• July (21). Dickens attends a meeting at the Princess’s Theatre, London, to discuss the settimg up of a home for retired actors.

• August (2). Government of India Act is passed.

The East India Company, the de-facto rulers of India, lose control to the British Crown.

• August (18-21). Appears at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall.

• October (15). Returns to the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, giving readings.
  

• October (21). Returns to the Nottingham Mechanics’ Institution, giving readings including A Christmas Carol.

• December (3). Dickens gives a speech at the annual meeting of the Institutional Association of Lancashire and Cheshire, held in the Free-trade Hall, Manchester.

• December (4). Dickens attends a dinner in his honour at the Castle Hotel, Coventry.

1859.

• April (30). Launch of All the Year Round, a weekly magazine founded and owned by Charles Dickens.

• A Tale of Two Cities is published weekly between April and November in All the Year Round.

1860.

• March. Visits Liverpool. Visits the Liverpool Workhouse and sees the conditions of soldiers in hospital.

• July (17). His daughter, Katie, marries Charles Allston Collins.

• Just ten days after Katie’s marriage his brother, Alfred, dies.

• September (3). Dickens burns his personal papers.

• September (11). Dickens’s seventh child, Sydney Smith Haldimand, joins the Royal Navy.

• December (1). Great Expectations is published weekly in All the Year Round between December 1860 and August 1861.

• December (15). First series of The Uncommercial Traveller published.

1861.

• February. Charles Culliford Dickens returns to London from working overseas , in preparation for marriage.

• May (22). Dickens hires a steamer for the day from Blackwall to Southend. Eight or nine friends, and three or four members of his family, were on board.

• August (3). Last installment of Great Expectations is published in All the Year Round.

• August. Great Expectations published in volume form.

• November (19). Charles Culliford Dickens marries Bessie Evans at St. Mark’s Church in Regent’s Park.

• December. Dickens gives a charitable reading at the Rochester and Chatham Mechanics’ Institute.

December (14). Queen Victoria‘s husband, Prince Albert, dies aged 42.

1862.

• March-June. Gives public readings in London.

1863.

• January. Gives charity readings at the British Embassy in Paris.

• June. Gives public readings in London.

• Dickens’ mother, Elizabeth, dies.

• Dickens reconciles his friendship with William Makepeace Thackeray at the Athenaeum club.

1864.

• His son, Walter, dies in India.

• April (12). Gives a speech in support of free health care for the poor, held at the Willis’s Rooms, London.

• May (1). Our Mutual Friend is published monthly between May 1864 and November 1865.

1865.

• June. Alfred D’Orsay Tennyson emigrates to Australia.

• June (9). Dickens is involved in the Staplehurst railway crash, with Ellen Ternan and her mother.

• November.Our Mutual Friend published in volume form.

• December. Second series of The Uncommercial Traveller published.

1866.

1867.

• June (5). Gives a speech in support of Ninth Anniversary Festival of the Railway Benevolent Society, held at the Willis’s Rooms, London.

• November (2). Dinner held for Charles Dickens at the Freemasons’ Tavern to celebrate his second visit to America.

• November (9). Dickens tours America for the second time, sailing for Boston from Liverpool.

• November (19). Arrives in Boston.

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  Sketch of Charles Dickens on stage at Boston’s Tremont Temple in December 1867 at the start of his second visit to America.

  December (2/3/5/6) Gives readings at the Tremont Temple, Boston.

• December (7). Travels from Boston to New York.

• December ( 9/10/12/13/16/17/19/20) Gives readings at the Steinway Hall, New York.

• December (21). Travels from New York to Boston.

• December (23/24). Gives readings at the Tremont Temple, Boston.

• December (25). Travels by rail from Boston to New York.

• December ( 26/27/28/30/31) Gives readings at the Steinway Hall, New York.

• December (26). In England, No Thoroughfare by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, opens at Adelphi Theatre.

1868.

• January (2/3) Gives readings at the Steinway Hall, New York.

• January (6/7). Gives readings at the Tremont Temple, Boston.

• January (9/10) Gives readings at the Steinway Hall, New York.

• January (13/14) Gives readings at the Concert Hall, Philadelphia.

• January (16/17/20/21)) Gives readings at the Plymouth Church, Brooklyn.

• January (23/24) Gives readings at the Concert Hall, Philadelphia.

• January (27/28) Gives readings at the Concordia Opera House, Baltimore.

• January (30/31) Gives readings at the Concert Hall, Philadelphia.

• February (3). Gives readings at Carroll Hall, Washington and speak. Event is attended by President Andrew Johnson.

• February (4/6/7). Gives further readings at Carroll Hall, Washington.

• February (7). Dickens meets with President Andrew Johnson at the White House.

• February (10/11). Gives readings at the Concordia Opera House, Baltimore.

• February (13/14). Gives readings at the Concert Hall, Philadelphia.

• February (18). Gives readings at the Allyn Hall, Hartford, Connecticut.

• February (20/21). Gives readings at the City Hall, Providence, R.I..

• February (24/25/27/28). Gives readings at the Tremont Temple, Boston.

• March (9). Gives readings at the Wieting Hall, Syracuse.

• March (10). Gives readings at the Corinthian Hall, Rochester.

• March (12/13). Gives readings at the St James’s Hall, Buffalo.

• March (14/15). Visits Niagara Falls.

• March (16). Gives readings at the Corinthian Hall, Rochester.

• March (18/19). Gives readings at the Twiddle Hall, Albany, New York state.

• March (20). Gives readings at the Music Hall, Springfield, Massachusetts.

• March (23). Gives readings at the Mechanics’ Hall, Worcester, Massachusetts.

• March (24). Gives readings at the Music Hall, New Haven, Connecticut.

• March (25). Gives readings at the Allyn Hall, Hartford, Connecticut.

• March (27). Gives readings at the Liberty Hall, New Bedford, Massachusetts.

• March (30). Gives readings at the City Hall, Portland.

• April (1/2/3/6/7/8). Gives readings at the Tremont Temple, Boston.

• April ( 13/14/16/17/20) Gives readings at the Steinway Hall, New York.

• April (22). Departs New York, sailing on the ship Russia.

• May. Dickens returns to England and tours.

• October (15). Dickens is in Liverpool staying at the Adelphi Hotel. Writes to his son Henry about his allowance whilst a student at Cambridge University.

1869.

• January (5). Dickens gives his first Murder of Nancy reading.

• April (5-9). Charles Dickens gives readings in Liverpool.

• April (10). Liverpool. Banquet held in honour of Charles Dickens at St George’s Hall.

• April (11-13). Gives readings in Dublin.

• April (22). Whilst on a reading tour Dickens is visited in Preston by his Doctor, Mr. Beard and advised to discontinue readings.

• August (30). Attends a dinner held by the London Rowing Club at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham.

• Dickens begins writing The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

• September (27). Gives a speech to the Birmingham and Midland Institute.

1870.

• January – June. Dickens rents 5 Hyde Park Place from Thomas Milner Gibson as a London base.

• January (11) – March (15). Between these dates, Dickens gives a series of twelve readings in London. They are to be his last series of public readings.

• February (12). Death of George Hogarth, Dickens’s former Father-in-Law.

• March (9). Dickens has an audience with Queen Victoria.

• March (15). Dickens gives his last public reading.

• April. The Mystery of Edwin Drood is published between April and September (but was never finished).

• June (7). Dickens with Georgina Hogarth around the lanes surrounding Gad’s Hill Place.

• June (8). At around 6pm, Charles Dickens suffers a seizure at Gad’s Hill Place. A local doctor attend. His old friend and family doctor, Frank Beard, is sent for and arrives about midnight.

• June (9). Charles Dickens passes away at Gad’s Hill Place at around 6pm, around twenty-four hours after the initial seizure.

• June (14). Charles Dickens is buried in a service at Westminster Abbey.