| 1778 | William Hazlitt born at Maidstone in Kent, April 10. |
| 1783-1786 | Residence in America. |
| 1787 ff. | Residence at Wem in Shropshire. |
| 1793-1794 | Student in the Hackney Theological College. |
| 1798 | Meeting with Coleridge and Wordsworth. |
| 1798?-1805 | Study and practice of painting. |
| 1802 | Visit to Paris. |
| 1805 | Essay on the Principles of Human Action. |
| 1806 | Free Thoughts on Public Affairs. |
| 1807 | An Abridgment of the Light of Nature Revealed, by Abraham Tucker. |
| | Reply to the Essay on Population by the Rev. T. R. Malthus. |
| | Eloquence of the British Senate. |
| 1808 | Marriage with Sarah Stoddart and settlement at Winterslow. |
| 1810 | A New and Improved Grammar of the English Tongue. |
| 1812 | Removal to London.—Lectures on philosophy at the Russell Institution. |
| 1812-1814 | On the staff of the Morning Chronicle. |
| 1814 | Begins contributing to the Champion, Examiner, and the Edinburgh Review. |
| 1816 | Memoirs of the Late Thomas Holcroft. |
| 1817 | The Round Table. |
| | The Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays. |
| 1818 | A View of the English Stage. |
| | Lectures on the English Poets. (Delivered at the Surrey Institution.) |
| 1819 | Lectures on the English Comic Writers.
(Delivered at the Surrey Institution at the close of 1818.) |
| | A Letter to William Gifford Esq., from William Hazlitt Esq. |
| | Political Essays. |
| 1820 | Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth.
(Delivered at the Surrey Institution at the close of 1819.) |
| | Joins the staff of the London Magazine. |
| 1821-22 | Table Talk, or Original Essays (2 volumes). |
| 1822 | Episode of Sarah Walker.—Journey to Scotland to obtain a divorce from his wife. |
| 1823 | Liber Amoris, or the New Pygmalion. |
| | Characteristics in the Manner of Rochefoucauld’s Maxims. |
| 1824 | Sketches of the Principal Picture-Galleries in England. |
| | Select British Poets. |
| | Marriage with Mrs. Bridgewater.—Tour of the Continent. |
| 1825 | The Spirit of the Age. |
| 1826 | Notes of a Journey through France and Italy. |
| | The Plain Speaker, Opinions on Books, Men, and Things (2 volumes). |
| 1828-1830 | Life of Napoleon Buonaparte (4 volumes). |
| 1830 | Conversations of James Northcote. |
| | Death of William Hazlitt, September 18. |