August 6 1809: Lord Alfred is born in Somersby, Lincolnshire, England.
1820: Alfred is tutored by his own father.
1821: Alfred wrote a 6,000-line epic poem.
1827: Alfred escapes his home to attend Trinity College, Cambridge.
1827: Alfred joins the "Apostles"
1830: Alfred and Hallam toured Europe together
1830: Tennyson publishes Poems, Chiefly Lyrical
1832: Again, both friends toured Europe
1832: Tennyson's publishes a second volume entitles simply Poems
1833: Hallam dies, many of Tennyson's poems are trubutes ti Hallam
1836, he became engaged to Emily Sellwood.
1842 Tennyson’s Poems in two volumes was a tremendous critical and popular success.
1850, publication of In Memoriam, Tennyson became one of Britain’s most popular poets. He was selected Poet Laureate. In that same year, he married Emily Sellwood.
1859, Tennyson published the first poems of Idylls of the Kings, which sold more than 10,000 copies in one month.
1884, he accepted a peerage, becoming Alfred Lord Tennyson.
1892 Alfred Tennyson dies and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
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