His ancestors, parents, grandparents and other close family.
The Lake District, Cockermouth, Penrith, Hawkshead.
March 1778: the death of his mother.
Whitsun 1779: he enters Hawkshead School.
December 30, 1783: the death of his father.
October 30, 1787: he enters St John's College.
Summer 1790: he goes on a walking tour of the Alps with his college friend Robert Jones.
December 1790: he spends six weeks in Forncett near Norwich with his sister, Dorothy, at the rectory of his uncle the Rev William Wordsworth.
January: Cambridge, he takes and passes his final exams.
February to May: London, sightseeing.
June to August: he stays at Plas-yn-Llan in the Vale of Clwyd, North Wales with his friend Robert Jones.
September: he returns to London to see his distant relative John Robinson (MP).
October: he stays a few weeks in Cambridge.
November to December: he makes his way from London to Brighton, Dieppe, Paris, then Orléans.
January to April: at Orléans, where he meets Annette Vallon.
April to September: he goes to Blois with Annette Vallon, where he meets Michel Beaupuy.
September to November: he returns to Orléans with Annette Vallon.
December: he returns alone to Paris, then London.
December 15: birth of his daughter, Caroline.
January to April: London, where he sees his two long poems (Descriptive Sketches and An Evening Walk) through the press. He writes a Reply to the Bishop of Llandaff.
February 1: France declares war on Great Britain.
June to July: he departs on a tour of the West Country in a gig with William Calvert, staying for a month on the Isle of Wight. The gig is damaged beyond repair near Salisbury.
July: he proceeds on foot and alone from Salisbury by Bristol and up the Wye Valley to Plas-yn-Llan in the Vale of Clwyd, North Wales.
August: he makes a tour of North Wales with his college friend Robert Jones.
September to November: he possibly returns to France.
December: he is possibly at Windy Brow near Keswick, certainly at uncle Richard's house in Whitehaven over Christmas.
January: he stays at Armathwaite Hall with the Speddings.
February to April: he joins his sister Dorothy in Halifax at the Rawsons.
April to May: he stays with his sister Dorothy at Windy Brow, near Keswick, a property loaned to him by the Calverts.
May to June: he stays in Whitehaven with his sister Dorothy, at the house of their cousin John Wordsworth, the sea captain, and son of his uncle and guardian Richard Wordsworth.
June to August: he is occupied with looking after Raisley Calvert, who has consumption.
July 28: death of Robespierre.
August to September: he stays with his cousin Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of his uncle and guardian Richard Wordsworth.
September to December: he is again occupied with looking after Raisley Calvert.
January 5: Raisley Calvert dies.
January to February: he spends a month with his sister Dorothy in Newcastle, where she is staying with one of their mother's cousins.
February to August: he goes to London, where he takes rooms at 15 Chalton Street, Somers Town, and gets to know William Godwin, Basil Montagu and the Pinneys.
September: he stays with the Pinneys in Bristol, where he meets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey.
September to December: he installs himself rent-free at one of the Pinneys' properties called Racedown Lodge, Dorset, a substantial Georgian manor house, with his sister Dorothy and Basil Montagu's young son, also called Basil.