| Patrick Brontë born | 17 March 1777 |
| Maria Brontë born | 1783 |
| Patrick leaves Ireland for Cambridge | 1802 |
| Degree of A.B. | 1806 |
| Curacy at Wetherfield, Essex | 1806 |
| „ Dewsbury Yorks | 1809 |
| „ Hartshead-cum-Clifton | 1811 |
| Publishes ‘Cottage Poems’ (Halifax) | 1811 |
| Married to Maria Branwell | 18 Dec. 1812 |
| First Child, Maria, born | 1813 |
| Publishes ‘The Rural Minstrel’ | 1813 |
| Elizabeth born | 1814 |
| Publishes ‘The Cottage in the Wood’ | 1815 |
| Curacy at Thornton | 1816 |
| Charlotte Brontë born at Thornton | 21 April 1816 |
| Patrick Branwell Brontë born | 1817 |
| Emily Jane Brontë born | 1818 |
| ‘The Maid of Killarney’ published | 1818 |
| Anne Brontë born | 1819 |
| Removal to Incumbency of Haworth | February 1820 |
| Mrs. Brontë died | 15 September 1821 |
| Maria and Elizabeth Brontë at Cowan Bridge | July 1824 |
| Charlotte and Emily „ „ | September 1824 |
| Leave Cowan Bridge | 1825 |
| Maria Brontë died | 6 May 1825 |
| Elizabeth Brontë died | 15 June 1825 |
| Charlotte Brontë at School, Roe Head | January 1831 |
| Leaves Roe Head School | 1832 |
| First Visit to Ellen Nussey at The Rydings | September 1832 |
| Returns to Roe Head as governess | 29 July 1835 |
| Branwell visits London | 1835 |
| Emily spends three months at Roe Head, when Anne takes her place and she returns home | 1835 |
| Ellen Nussey visits Haworth in Holidays | July 1836 |
| Miss Wooler’s School removed to Dewsbury Moor | 1836 |
| Emily at a School at Halifax for six months (Miss Patchet of Law Hill) | 1836 |
| First Proposal of Marriage (Henry Nussey) | March 1839 |
| Anne Brontë becomes governess at Blake Hall, (Mrs. Ingham’s) | April 1839 |
| Charlotte governess at Mrs. Sidgwick’s at Stonegappe, and at Swarcliffe, Harrogate | 1839 |
| Second Proposal of Marriage (Mr. Price) | 1839 |
| Charlotte and Emily at Haworth, Anne at Blake Hall | 1840 |
| Charlotte’s second situation as governess with Mrs. White, Upperwood House, Rawdon | March 1841 |
| Charlotte and Emily go to School at Brussels | February 1842 |
| Miss Branwell died at Haworth | 29 Oct. 1842 |
| Charlotte and Emily return to Haworth | Nov. 1842 |
| Charlotte returns to Brussels | Jan. 1843 |
| Returns to Haworth | Jan. 1844 |
| Anne and Branwell at Thorp Green | 1845 |
| Charlotte visits Mary Taylor at Hounsden | 1845 |
| Visits Miss Nussey at Brookroyd | 1845 |
| Publication of Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell | 1846 |
| Charlotte Brontë visits Manchester with her father for him to see an Oculist | Aug. 1846 |
| ‘Jane Eyre’ published (Smith & Elder) | Oct. 1847 |
| ‘Wuthering Heights’ and ‘Agnes Grey’, (Newby) | Dec. 1847 |
| Charlotte and Emily visit London | June 1848 |
| ‘Tenant of Wildfell Hall’ | 1848 |
| Branwell died | 24 Sept. 1848 |
| Emily died | 19 Dec. 1848 |
| Anne Brontë died at Scarborough | 28 May 1849 |
| ‘Shirley’ published | 1849 |
| Visit to London, first meeting with Thackeray | Nov. 1849 |
| Visit to London, sits for Portrait to Richmond | 1850 |
| Third Offer of Marriage (James Taylor) | 1851 |
| Visit to London for Exhibition | 1851 |
| ‘Villette’ published | 1852 |
| Visit to London | 1853 |
| Visit to Manchester to Mrs. Gaskell | 1853 |
| Marriage | 29 June 1854 |
| Death | 31 March 1855 |
| Patrick Brontë died | 7 June 1861 |