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April 1814
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Maria Brontë, daughter of Patrick and Maria, born |
| February 8, 1815 |
Elizabeth Brontë born |
| 1815 |
Patrick becomes curate at Thornton
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| April 21, 1816 |
Charlotte Brontë born |
| June 26, 1817 |
Patrick Branwell Brontë born |
| July 30, 1818 |
Emily Jane Brontë born |
| January 17, 1820 |
Anne Brontë born |
| April 20, 1820 |
Patrick becomes curate of Haworth; family moves |
| September 15, 1821 |
Maria Brontë (the children’s mother) dies of cancer |
| 1824 |
Maria and Elizabeth attend Cowan Bridge school. Charlotte and Emily follow later in the year. |
| May 6, 1825 |
Maria dies of tuberculosis |
| June 15, 1825 |
Elizabeth dies of tuberculosis |
| June, 1825 |
Charlotte and Emily return home |
| January 1831 |
Charlotte attends Roe Head School |
| May 1832 |
Charlotte returns home |
| 1835 |
Branwell plans to attend the Royal Academy Schools in London, but the plan comes to nothing |
| July 1835 |
Charlotte becomes a teacher at Roe Head School. Emily becomes a student there. |
October 1835
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Emily returns home. Anne takes her place. |
| September 1837 |
Emily becomes teacher at Law Hill School |
| December 1837 |
Charlotte and Anne return home after Anne becomes ill. Charlotte resigns her position. |
| 1838 |
Branwell goes to Bradford to become a portrait painter |
| March 1838 |
Emily returns home from Law Hill School |
| April 1839 |
Anne becomes governess to the Ingham family |
| December 1839 |
Anne is dismissed by the Ingham family |
| May 1840 |
Anne becomes governess to the Robinson family |
| August 1840 |
Branwell works as assistant clerk at Sowerby Bridge Railway Station |
| February 1842 |
Charlotte and Emily go to Brussels as pupils at the Pensionnat Heger |
| October 29, 1842 |
Aunt Branwell dies |
| November 1842 |
Charlotte and Emily return home |
| January 1843 |
Charlotte returns to Brussels as a teacher in the Pensionnat Heger. Branwell becomes tutor to the Robinson family |
| January 1844 |
Charlotte comes home |
| June 11, 1845 |
Anne resigns from her position as governess to the Robinson family |
| July 1845 |
Branwell is dismissed from the Robinson family, probably for having an affair with Mrs Robinson |
| May 1846 |
Publication of Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell |
| October 19, 1847 |
Charlotte's Jane Eyre published |
| December 1847 |
Anne's Agnes Grey and Emily's Wuthering Heights published |
| June 1848 |
Anne's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall published |
| September 24, 1848 |
Branwell dies of tuberculosis |
| December 19, 1848 |
Emily dies of tuberculosis |
| May 28, 1849 |
Anne dies of tuberculosis |
| 1849 |
Charlotte's Shirley is published |
| 1853 |
Charlotte's Villette is published |
| June 29, 1854 |
Charlotte marries Arthur Bell Nicholls |
| March 31, 1855 |
Charlotte dies of tuberculosis and/or complications in pregnancy |
| 1857 |
Charlotte's The Professor is published |
| June 7, 1861 |
The Reverend Patrick Brontë dies |