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 Corsham Street, Hoxton: 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
1814
- Vauxhall Gardens, Lambeth: Keats sees a woman at the pleasure garden whose beauty will haunt him for years.
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
- Winchester, Hampshire: Keats stays here in August-October 1819
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
1954
- Westminster Abbey: Memorial unveiled to Keats and Shelley in Poets’ Corner.
1960
- Brookwood Cemetery: The remains of John Keats’ immediate family are relocated from St Stephen Coleman Street, London, to Brookwood Cemetery, Woking.