1759- April 27, Wollstonecraft was born in London.
1759- The Wollstonecraft family moves frequently during this time.
1768- The Wollstonecraft family moves to a farm in Yorkshire. Mary's education followed the common course of day-school.
1775- Wollstonecraft meets Francis (Fanny) Blood
1776- The Wollstonecraft family moves again to a farm in Wales.
1777- The Wollstonecraft family returns to London. Wollstonecraft insists on having a room of her own for quiet and study.
1784- Wollstonecraft, Fanny Blood, and Eliza open a school. Wollstonecraft becomes acquainted with Dr. Richard Price and other liberals.
1786- She writes her first work, a pamphlet entitled Thoughts on the Education of Daughters.
1788- She writes her first book, Mary, a Fiction, a children's book, Original Stories from Real Life, translates Jacques Necker's On The Importance Of Religious Opinions. She also becomes involved in her publisher, Joseph Johnson's monthly periodical The Analytical Review as well as beginning translation of Christian Gotthilf Salzmann's Elements Of Morality For The Use Of Children.
1789- Johnson publishes Wollstonecraft's The Female Reader, no copies of which have apparently survived.
1790- Wollstonecraft completes and publishes her translation of Salzmann's Elements, writes A Vindication Of The Rights Of Men in response to Edmund Burke's Reflections on The Revolution In France.
1791- Begins writing A Vindication of The Rights of Woman.
1792- A Vindication of The Rights of Woman is published by Johnson. Leaves for France.
1793- Meets Gilbert Imlay, an American businessman. Moves to the suburbs of Paris for safety. Wollstonecraft and Imlay move back into Paris together. Wollstonecraft becomes pregnant. Imlay leaves for Le Havre on a business trip.
1794- Wollstonecraft travels to Le Havre to join Imlay. Daughter Fanny is born May 14. Johnson publishes her An Historical and Moral View Of The Origin and Progress of The French Revolution.
1795- She begins to contemplate suicide. Wollstonecraft leaves on a business trip for Imlay with her child and a nurse to Sweden Norway and Denmark. She returns to find Imlay involved with an actress and attempts suicide by jumping off Putney Bridge.
1796- Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, is published by Johnson. Wollstonecraft meets William Godwin again and the two become lovers.
1797- 29 March, Wollstonecraft and Godwin marry in a private ceremony due to Wollstonecraft's pregnancy.
1797- 10 September, Wollstonecraft dies of "childbed fever".
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