1891 26 January First production of The Duchess of Padua under the title Guido Ferranti. It opens anonymously in New York and runs for only three weeks
February ‘The Soul of Man under Socialism’ published in the Fortnightly Review
April The Picture of Dorian Gray published in book form with additional chapters and a preface
2 May Intentions published (comprising ‘The Truth of Masks’, ‘The Critic as Artist’, ‘Pen, Pencil & Poison’ and ‘The Decay of Lying’)
?June Meets Lord Alfred Douglas (Bosie)
July Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories (the other stories being ‘The Sphinx without a Secret’, ‘The Canterville Ghost’ and ‘The Model Millionaire’) published in book form
November A House of Pomegranates published. It included ‘The Young King’, ‘The Birthday of the Infanta’, ‘The Fisherman and his Soul’ and ‘The Star Child’, the last two of which had not been published before
November-December Writes Salome in Paris
1892 20 February Lady Windermere’s Fan produced at St James’s Theatre
June A production of Salome with Sarah Bernhardt in the title role is banned by the Lord Chamberlain July Takes cure at Homburg
August-September Writes A Woman of No Importance in Norfolk
1893 22 February Salome published in French
19 April A Woman of No Importance produced at Haymarket Theatre
October Writes An Ideal Husband
November Lady Windermere’s Fan published
1894 9 February Salome published in English with Aubrey Beardsley’s illustrations
May In Florence with Douglas
11 June The Sphinx published
July ‘Poems in Prose’ published in the Fortnightly Review
August-September Writes The Importance of Being Earnest at Worthing
9 October A Woman of No Importance published
October At Brighton with Douglas
November ‘A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated’ published in the Saturday Review
December ‘Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young’ published in the Chameleon
1895 3 January An Ideal Husband produced at Haymarket Theatre
January-February Visits Algiers with Douglas
14 February The Importance of Being Earnest produced at St James’s Theatre
28 February Finds Queensberry’s card at Albemarle Club
1 March Obtains warrant for Queensberry’s arrest
9 March Queensberry remanded at Bow Street for trial at Old Bailey
12–20 March Visits Monte Carlo with Douglas
3 April Queensberry trial opens
5 April Queensberry acquitted. Wilde arrested at Cadogan Hotel and charged at Bow Street. Bail refused. Imprisoned at Holloway until first trial
24 April Sheriff’s sale of all Wilde’s possessions at his home, 16 Tite Street
26 April First trial opens
1 May Jury disagree
7 May Released on bail
20 May Second trial opens
25 May Convicted and sentenced to two years’ hard labour. Imprisoned at Pentonville
30 May The Soul of Man under Socialism published in book form
4 July Transferred to Wandsworth
12 November Declared bankrupt
20 November Transferred to Reading
1896 3 February Death of his mother, Lady Wilde
11 February Salome produced in Paris at the Theatre de l’Oeuvre
1897 January-March Writes De Profundis
19 May Released. Crosses to Dieppe
26 May Moves from Dieppe to Berneval-sur-Mer July-October Writes and revises The Ballad of Reading Gaol
?28 August Meets Douglas in Rouen
15 September Leaves Dieppe for Paris
20 September Arrives at Naples with Douglas
1898 February Returns to Paris
13 February The Ballad of Reading Gaol published
End March Moves to Hotel d’Alsace, rue des Beaux-Arts, Paris
7 April Death of Constance Wilde in Genoa after spinal operation
June-July At Nogent-sur-Marne
August At Chevennieres-sur-Marne
December Invited by Frank Harris to spend three months on French Riviera at Napoule near Cannes
1899 February The Importance of Being Earnest published. Leaves Napoule for Nice
25 February Leaves Nice to stay as Harold Mellor’s guest at Gland, Switzerland
13 March Willie Wilde, his brother, dies
1 April Leaves Gland for Santa Margherita on Italian Riviera
May Returns to Paris. Stays at Hotel de la Neva, then at Hotel Marsollier
July An Ideal Husband published
August Moves back to the Hotel d’Alsace
1900—April-May Spends two weeks as Mellor’s guest travelling in Italy and Sicily
May Returns to the Hotel d’Alsace
10 October Undergoes ear operation in hotel room
30 November Dies in Hotel d’Alsace of cerebral meningitis. Buried at Bagneux
1905—February De Profundis first published in heavily expurgated form by Robert Ross
1906—July Wilde’s estate discharged from bankruptcy. Creditors paid 20s in the £ and 4 per cent interest from sales of books and licensing of plays
1908—First collected edition of Wilde’s works published by Methuen
1909—20 July Wilde’s remains are moved from the cemetery at Bagneux to Pere Lachaise and reinterred under Jacob Epstein’s monument. The manuscript of De Profundis is presented by Ross to the British Museum on the condition that it remain closed for fifty years
1945—20 March Death of Lord Alfred Douglas
1949—Suppressed part of De Profundis published by Wilde’s son, Vyvyan Holland, from Ross’s typescript
1954—Unveiling of plaque on Wilde’s London home at 16 Tite Street
1956—First publication of the original four-act version of The Importance of Being Earnest
1962—Publication of Wilde’s Collected Letters including first fully correct version of De Profundis
1995—Consecration of a window to Oscar Wilde