| 1844 |
July 28th. Born at Stratford, Essex. |
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| 1852 |
Family removes to Oak Hill, Hampstead. |
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| 1854-63 |
Sir Robert Cholmeley’s Grammar School, Highgate. |
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| 1860 |
Wins school prize with “The Escorial”. |
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| 1861 |
Writes “A Vision of the Mermaids”. |
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| 1862 |
First published poem: “Winter with the Gulf Stream”
in Once a Week.
Wins Classical exhibition to Balliol. |
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| 1863-7 |
At Balliol from April 1863. The “early diaries”
begin.
Meets Jowett, Pater, Liddon, Pusey; makes friends with Robert
Bridges, William Addis, A.W.M. Baillie, Edward Bond. |
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| 1865 |
Meets Digby Mackworth Dolben. |
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| 1866 |
Decision to become Roman Catholic. Received into Roman
Catholic Church by John Henry Newman. |
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| 1867 |
Graduates with First in Greats. |
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| 1867-8 |
Teaches at the Oratory School, Birmingham. |
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| 1868 |
Decides to become a priest and a Jesuit. Burns early poems.
Enters Jesuit novitiate, Manresa House, Roehampton. |
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| 1870-3 |
Philosophical studies as St. Beuno’s College, St.
Asaph. |
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| 1875 |
Begins to write poetry again with “The Wreck of the
Deutschland”. |
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| 1877 |
Ordination to priesthood. |
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| 1877-8 |
Sub-minister at Mount St. Mary’s College, Chesterfield. |
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| 1878 |
Short stay at Stonyhurst.
Begins correspondence with R.W. Dixon.
Select preacher at Farm Street Church, London. |
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| 1878-9 |
Priest at St. Aloysius Church, Oxford. |
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| 1879 |
Temporarily at St. Joseph’s, (Bedford) Leigh, near
Manchester. |
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| 1880-1 |
Priest at St. Francis Xavier’s Church, Liverpool. |
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| 1881 |
Temporarily at St. Joseph’s Church, Glasgow.
Tertianship at Manresa House. |
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| 1882-4 |
Teaches Classics at Stonyhurst. |
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| 1883 |
Meets Coventry Patmore and begins correspondence.
Temporarily at The Holy Name, Manchester. |
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| 1884-9 |
Professor of Greek, University College, Dublin, and Fellow
of the Royal University. |
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| 1889 |
June 8th. Dies of typhoid fever at 86 St. Stephen’s
Green, Dublin.
Buried in Glasnevin cemetery. |
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| 1918 |
‘The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ published
by Robert Bridges. |
