1758–1760. The Idler.
1759. Death of his mother. Rasselas.
1762. Pensioned.
1763. Met Boswell for the first time.
1764. The Club founded.
1765. Made Doctor of Laws by Trinity College, Dublin. Introduced to the Thrales. His edition of Shakspere published.
1773. Spent three months in Scotland.
1775. Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland published. Taxation no Tyranny. Received the degree of Doctor in Civil Law from Oxford.
1779. First four volumes of his Lives of the Poets.
1781. The remaining six volumes of the Lives.