| 1795 | born eldest child. Father (Thomas) manager of a livery stable. |
| 1803-11 | attends John Clarke's school in Enfield, 12 miles north of London. |
| 1804 | father dies; mother remarries. Keats, his brothers, and sister go to live with mother's parents in Enfield. |
| 1810 | mother dies of tuberculosis. |
| 1811-15 | apprenticed to Thomas Hammond, an apothecary-surgeon. |
| 1814 | writes first poetry. |
| 1815 | enters Guy's Hospital, London, for further medical training. |
| 1816 | accelerated poetic activity. Meets Leigh Hunt, Benjamin Haydon, & John Hamilton Reynolds. |
| 1817 | Poems. Meets Benjamin Bailey, Charles Dilke, Charles Brown, and Wordsworth. |
| 1818 | Endymion. Brother George and bride emigrate to America. Meets Fanny Brawne. Throughout the autumn, nursing his brother Tom, who dies of tuberculosis in December. Walking tour of northern England and Scotland. Moves into Wentworth Place with Charles Brown. |
| 1819 | writes the poems which place him among the English poets, including the great odes. Fanny Brawne and her family move into the other half of Wentworth Place. |
| 1820 | Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems. Severe hemorrhage in the lungs; moves to Rome. |
| 1821 | dies. |
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