Year Age Event 1757 Born 28 November Golden Square Central London 1768-72 10-14 Henry Pars' Drawing school, the Strand London 1772-79 14-21 Apprentice engraver for James Basire 1779 21 Student Royal Academy 1780 21 Watched Gordon riots and burning of Newgate Prison 1782 24 Married Catherine Boucher (20 years old) 1783 25 Printed Poetical Sketches 1784 26 Father Died, Set up an unsuccessful print shop 1787 29 Brother Robert Died (20 years old) 1788 30 First works in illuminated printing All Religions Are One and There Is No Natural Religion 1789 31 Engraved Songs of Innocence and Thel, wrote Tiriel 1790-1800 32-42 Moved too 13 Hercules Buildings Lambeth 1791 33 Printed The French Revolution not published 1793 35 The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Visions of the Daughters of Albion, America, Songs of Experience, The Gates of Paradise, all advertised for sale written and engraved 1794 36 1795 37 Songs of Los, Book of Ahania, Book of Los 1797 39 Blake illustrated books for Mary Wollstonecraft, Erasmus Darwin, John Stedman. Completed a lot of illusrations for Youngs' Night Thoughts only some published in an incomplete edition, this failure damaged Blakes' career and survived the following years from patronage by Thomas Butts 1800-03 42-45 Worked on projects for William Hayley and on illustrations for Miltons' Comus, on Vala and Milton, he also learned to read Greek, Hebrew and Latin, this was at Felpham on the Sussex coast 1803 45 Moved back to Central London 1804 46 Acquitted at trial for sedation. Title pages of Milton and Jerusalem did not finish poems until 1808 and 1820 1805 47 Made designs for Blairs' The Grave and watercolour illustrations for Grays' Poems 1809 51 Unsuccessful exhibition lived in poverty for next 10 years mainly working on drawings for Milton and Jerusalem 1818 60 Met John Linnell and John Varley from whom he drew his Visionary Heads. Engraved and enlarged The Gates of Paradise, drafted The Everlasting Gospel 1820 62 Created woodcuts for Virgils' Pastorals also engraved The Laocoons, On Homers' Poetry and On Virgil 1821 63 Moved into flat in the Strand London 1822-25 64-67 Illustrations for the Book of Job for Linnell and engraved The Ghost of Abel 1824-27 66-69 Met Samuel Palmer and was inspiration for group of young artists the Ancients. Made 28 watercolour illustrations for Bunyans' Pilgrim's Progress and for Linnell over 100 illustrations to Dantes' Divine Comedy. So he could read Dante Blake learnt Italian 1827 69 William Blake Died on the 12 August.