Patrick Brunty was born in a cottage in Ireland, the oldest of ten children of a couple of poor Irish peasant farmers.
1783
Maria Branwell was born in a prosperous family in a small town, the eleventh of twelvechildren.
1802
Patrick,at 25, won a place to study theology at St. John's college, Cambridge where hechanged his name Brunty to the more distinguished sounding Brontë.
1807
Patrick Brontë was ordained in the priesthood in the Church of England. He served as acurate first in Essex and latterly in Wellington, Shropshire.
1810
PatrickBrontë published his first poem Winter Evening Thoughts in a local newspaper.
1811
Patrick Brontëpublished acollection of moral verse,Cottage Poems.
PatrickBrontë became vicar of St. Peter's Church in Hartshead in Yorkshire.
1812
PatrickBrontë, aged 35, was appointed an examiner in Classics at Woodhouse GroveSchool.
Atthe same time, Maria Branwell, aged 30, was helping her aunt administer thehousekeeping functions of the school.
PatrickBrontë and Maria Branwell were married on 29 December
1814
Maria Brontëwas born.
1815
Elizabeth Brontë was born.
1816
Charlotte Brontë was born on 21 April in Market Street Thornton.
1817
Branwell Brontë was born on 26 June.
1818
Emily Brontë was born on 30 July.
1820
Anne Brontë was born on 17 January.
Shortlythereafter, the family moved a few miles to the Parsonage in Haworth, wherePatrick Brontë had been appointed perpetual curate of St Michael and All AngelsChurch.
1821
Theirmother Maria died of uterine cancer on 15 September.
After Patrick's unsuccessful tries to remarry, Maria's sister, Elizabeth Branwell,moved to the parsonage and spent the rest of her life there raising her sister's children.
1824
Patrick sent four elder daughters, Maria, Elizabeth, Charlotte and Emily, to the Clergy Daughters' School at Cowan Bridge.
1825
Mariaand Elizabeth became ill after a typhoid epidemic swept the school and were both died of tuberculosis in June.
Thereafter Charlotte and Emily were removed from the school and were educated at home by their father and aunt Elizabeth Branwell with their younger sister Anne andyounger brother Branwell.
1826
The siblings began creating an imaginary world 'Angria' after their fatherpresented Branwell with a set of toy soldiers in June.
1829
Charlotte wrote her first known poem aged 13 years old, and was to go on write more than200 poems in the course of her life.
Patrick employed John Bradley as drawing master for the children, who may have fostered Branwell's enthusiasm for art and architecture
1831
In January Charlotte enlisted in Roe Head Girls' school, where she met her lifelong friends and correspondents Ellen Nussey and Mary Taylor.
Emily and Anne broke away from Charlotte and Branwell to create their own fantasy world 'Gondal'.
1832
Charlotte left school to teach her sisters, Emily and Anne, at home.
1834
Branwell painted the well-known portrait of her three sisters.
1835
Charlotte returned Roe Head Girls' school as a governess companied by Emily as a pupil.
Emily then returned home after only a few month for failing in enduring the disciplined routine at school and Anne took her place.
1836
Branwell,enjoying masculine company in the pubs in Harworth, joined local Masonic Lodgeof the Three Graces at the youngest possible age
1837
Emily became a teacher at Law Hill School in Halifax in September.
Sometime before December, Anne, becoming seriously ill with gastritis and undergoingreligious crisis at Roe Head Girl's School was taken back home by her father.
1839
In April Emily returned home from Law Hill School for health break under the stress of the 17-hour work day.
Thes ame month, Anne started work as governess for the Ingham family at Blake Hall,near Mirfield .
In May, Charlotte undertook the first of many positions as governess to families in Yorkshire, employed by the Sidgwick family, a career she pursued until 1841.
In August, William Weightman, Patrick's new curate, started work in the parish and was welcomed at parsonage.
At Christmas, Anne returned home after being dismissed.
1840
Anne obtained a second post as governess to the children of Robinsons at Thorp GreenHall.
1842
Charlotte and Emily travelled to Brussels to enrol at the boarding school run by Constantin Héger and his wife, in the hope of perfecting their German and French before opening their own school.
Anne had been seeing Weightman on her holidays, particularly during the summer this year when her sisters were away. Unfortunately, Weightman died of cholera this year.
In early December, their aunt Elizabeth Branwell died, who had joined the family in Haworth to look after the children after their mother's death. Anne went back home from Thorp Green first. Charlotte and Emily left the school and went back home later.
1843
Charlotte returned alone to Brussels in January to take up a teaching post at the school.
In January, Anne returned to Thorp Green and secured a position for her brother Branwell astutor to the Robinsons' son Edmund.
1844
Charlotte returned to Haworth in January. The sisters made headway with opening their own boarding school in the family home. None were attracted and in October the project was abandoned.
1845
Arthur Bell Nicholls became Patrick's curate, who married Charlotte later.
1846
In May, Charlotte, Emily and Anne self-financed the publication of a joint collection poems under their assumed names Currer Bell, Ellis Bell, and Acton Bell.
In June, when Anne and Branwell returned home for the holiday, she resigned her position, becoming aware of the secret relationship between her brother and Mrs. Robinson.
1847
Charlotte's second written novel Jane Eyre was published under pseudonym after her first novel The Professor was rejected by publishers.
Emily's Wuthering Heights and Anne's Agnes Grey were published together as a three-volume set while the former appearing as the first two volumes undertheir masculine pen names.
1848
In June, Anne's second novelThe Tenant of Widfell Hallwas published.
In July, Charlotte and Anne went to London to reveal their identities toCharlotte's publisher to dispel the rumor that the 'Bell brothers' were all the same person, while Emily refused to go with them.
In September, Branwell died of chronic bronchitis and marasmus, exacerbated by heavy drinking.
In December Emily died of pulmonary tuberculosis.
1849
In May, Anne died of tuberculosis in May.
In October, Charlotte published her novel Shirley.
1853
Charlotte's novel Villette was published.
1854
Charlotte accepted proposal of marriage from Arthur Bell Nicholls and married in June.
1855
Charlottedied with her unborn child on 31 March, which might be caused by hyperemesis gravidarum.
1857
Charlotte's first written novelThe Professor waspublished posthumously.
1861
PatrickBrontë died on 7 June.
Charlotte's widowed husband Nicholls returned to Banagher in County Offlay, to live with
his widowed aunt and her daughter, Mary Anna Bell, whom he married later.
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