Timeline

The Keats Locations featured on this website organised on a timeline.

1774

• St Stephen Coleman Street: John Jennings and Alice Whalley (maternal grandparents) marry here on 25 February 1774
• Swan and Hoop, Moorgate: John Jennings and Alice Whalley Jennings (maternal grandparents) manage the stables and live here

1794

• St George’s, Hanover Square: Thomas Keats and Frances Jennings (parents) marry here on 9 October 1794

1795

• Swan and Hoop, Moorgate: John Keats is born here (we assume) on 31 October 1795
• St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate: John Keats is baptised here on 18 December 1795

1797

• 12 Cranwood Street, Shoreditch: Keats lives here, c.1797-1802
• George, Tom and Edward Keats (younger brothers) are born here

1801

• St Leonard’s Church, Shoreditch: George, Tom and Edward Keats (brothers) are baptised here on 24 September 1801

1802

• Bunhill Fields Burial Ground: Edward Keats (brother) is buried here on 9 December 1802, age 20 months
• Swan and Hoop, Moorgate: Thomas and Frances Keats (parents) and family live here and manage the stables and inn, when John and Alice Jennings (maternal grandparents) retire

1803

• Swan and Hoop, Moorgate: Frances Mary Keats (sister, known as Fanny) is born here on 3 June 1803
• St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate: Fanny Keats (sister) is baptised here on 17 June 1803
• Clarke’s Academy, Enfield: Keats attends school here, 1803-1810

1804

• Bunhill Fields Burial Ground: Thomas Keats (father) suffers fatal injuries in a riding accident near the City Road gates on 15 April 1804, age 31 years
• St George’s, Hanover Square: Frances Jennings Keats (mother) marries William Rawlings here on 27 June 1804

1805

• Church Street, Edmonton: Keats lives here in Alice Jennings’s house (grandmother), 1805-1810

1810

• Church Street, Edmonton: Keats lives and works here as apprentice to Thomas Hammond, 1810-1815

1815

• Guy’s Hospital, Southwark: Keats works and studies here, 1815-1816
• The Old Operating Theatre and Herb Garret, Southwark: as a student at Guy’s Hospital, Keats might have known the herb garret, and would have found the operating theatre familiar though it wasn’t built until 1822
• 8 St. Thomas Street, Southwark: Keats lives here, 1815-1816
• Chelsea Physic Garden: Keats studies here, 1815-1816

1816

• Apothecaries’ Hall, London: Keats is examined for a licence to practice as an apothecary on 25 July 1816
• Margate, Kent: John and Tom Keats stay here, August-September 1816
• 8 Dean Street, Southwark: Keats lives here, late 1816

1817

• Margate, Kent: Keats (and Tom) stay here, April-May 1817
• Canterbury, May-June 1817, also mentioned in this entry
• Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire: Keats visits here on 3 October 1817
• Burford Bridge, Surrey: Keats stays here, November 1817

1818

• Keats House (formerly Wentworth Place), Hampstead: Keats lives here for various periods, 1818-1820

1819

• Eastgate Square, Chichester: Keats stays here with friends in January 1819
• Keats Cottage (formerly Eglantine Cottage), Shanklin: Keats stays here with friends in July-August 1819
• Shanklin Chine and St Blasius Church also mentioned in this entry

1820

• Keats-Shelley Memorial House, Rome: Keats lives here, 1820-1821
• Keats dies here on 23 February 1821, age 25 years

1821

• Non-Catholic Cemetery, Rome: John Keats is buried here on 26 February 1821

1865

• Brompton Cemetery: Frances Brawne Lindon is buried here, age 65 years

1960

• Brookwood Cemetery: The remains of John Keats’ immediate family are relocated from St Stephen Coleman Street, London, to Brookwood Cemetery, Woking.