Timeline of Lady Caroline Lamb
The following timeline contains dates and text that is copied from the "Principal
Dates" section (pages 264-267) of the book, CARO: The Fatal Passion,
copyrighted by Henry Blyth, 1972. Publisher: Coward, McCann, and Geoghegan, Inc. I assume no ownership of this timeline. I have not included
the entire timeline, but instead, just parts that I found relevant to this homepage.
Please check out Blyth's book as it gives great insight into the life of Caroline Lamb.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1761-1810
1812-1813
1815-1823
1824-1865
1761-1810
- 1761:
- June 16: Birth of Henrietta Frances Spencer (later Lady Bessborough). Caroline's mother.
- 1774:
- Birth of William Lamb (later Lord Melborne).
- 1780:
- November 27: Henrietta marries Frederick, 3rd Earl of Bessborough.
- 1785:
- Birth of Caroline Ponsonby (Caro-later Lady Caroline Lamb).
- 1788:
- Birth of George Gordon Byron (later 6th Lord Byron).
- 1792:
- Birth of Anne Isabella Milbanke (Annabella--later Lady Byron).
- 1798:
- Caroline falls in love with William at the age of 12.
- 1804:
- William is called to the bar.
- 1805:
- January 24: Death of William's older brother, Peniston Lamb. William becomes heir to the title
and gives up the bar for politics.
- 1805:
- June 3: Caroline marries William at 8pm at the Bessborough home in Cavendish Square.
- 1807:
- August 29: Birth of Augustus Lamb, Caroline's only surviving child.
- 1810:
- Caroline's affair with Sir Godfrey Webster.
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1812-1813
- 1812:
- February 29: Publication of Cantos I and II of Childe Harold.
- 1812:
- March 25: Byron meets Caroline and Annabella at a waltzing party at Melbourne House.
- 1812:
- March 27: Caroline writes her first love-letter to Byron.
- 1812:
- May-June: Byron takes refuge from Caroline at his house, Newstead Abbey.
- 1812:
- June 13: Byron returns to London.
- 1812:
- June-July: Byron becomes "friendly" with Lady Oxford.
- 1812:
- August 9: Caroline sends Byron a gift of her pubic hairs.
- 1812:
- September 7: Caroline consents to go with her parents to Ireland.
- 1812:
- October: Byron stays with Lady Oxford at Eywood.
- 1812:
- Byron writes a final letter to Caroline, signing it, I am no longer yr. lover.
- 1812:
- November 10: Caroline returns to Ireland and seeks an interview with Byron.
- 1812:
- December: Bonfire scene staged by Caroline at Brocket.
- 1813:
- January: Caroline forges Byron's signature to obtain his portrait from Byron's publisher,
John Murray.
- 1813:
- July 5/6: Caroline in 'dagger scene' at Lady Heathcote's party.
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1815-1823
- 1815:
- January 2: Byron marries Annabella Milbanke.
- 1815:
- Mid-January: Lady Melbourne takes Caroline to see Byron and his wife.
- 1815:
- December 10: Annabella gives birth to her only child, Augusta Ada.
- 1816:
- April 25: Byron leaves England forever.
- 1816:
- May 9: Glenarvon is published anonymously and meets with instant success...and scandal.
- 1820:
- Caroline writes her second novel, Graham Hamilton, but holds back publication.
- 1821:
- November 14: Death of Caroline's mother, Henrietta.
- 1822:
- Graham Hamilton is published anonymously by Colburn.
- 1823:
- Publication of Caroline's third novel, Ada Reis.
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1824-1865
- 1824:
- January 5: Byron arrives at Missolonghi, Greece.
- 1824:
- April 19: Death of Byron.
- 1824:
- May 17: The destruction of Byron's Memoirs.
- 1824:
- July 14: Caroline accidentally meets Byron's funeral procession near Brocket.
- 1824:
- July 16: Byron is buried at Hucknall Torkard.
- 1825:
- July: Caroline and William separate. She is made to leave Brocket. Altercation over terms.
- 1825:
- Caroline arrives in Paris.
- 1825:
- October: William relents and allows Caroline to return to Brocket.
- 1827:
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- April: Wlliam made Chief Secretary for Ireland in Canning Ministry.
- 1827:
- December: Caroline is moved to London owing to the serious deterioration of her health.
- 1828:
- January 15: William is summoned urgently from Ireland.
- 1828:
- January 26: Death of Caroline at Melbourne House in the presence of Caro-George.
Aged 42. She is buried at Hatfield.
- 1830:
- William becomes Home Secretary in Grey Ministry.
- 1834:
- July: William becomes Prime Minister.
- 1836:
- November 27: Death of Caroline's only child, Augustus, unmarried, age 29.
- 1848:
- November 24: Death of William at Brocket, aged 69. He is buried near Caroline in Hatfield churchyard.
- 1865:
- Glenarvon is republished in one volume under the title of The Fatal Passion.
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