Oscar Wilde

19th century

• 1854October 16 – Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (died 1900)source
• 1881June – Oscar Wilde's Poems published in London.source
• 1882January 2 – Irish-born author Oscar Wilde arrives in New York at the beginning of a lecture tour of the United States and Canada.source
• 1889Oscar Wilde published his dialogue, The Decay of Lying, and his story The Portrait of Mr. W. H..source
• 1890June 20 – The Picture of Dorian Gray (by Oscar Wilde) is published by Philadelphia-based Lippincott's Monthly Magazine (dated July).source
• 189518 February – the Marquess of Queensberry (father of Lord Alfred Douglas, Oscar Wilde's lover), leaves his calling card at the Albemarle Club in London, inscribed: "For Oscar Wilde, posing somdomite", i.e. a sodomite, inducing Wilde to charge him with criminal libel.source
• 1895April 6 – Oscar Wilde is arrested in London for "gross indecency", after losing a criminal libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.source
• 1895May 25 – R. v. Wilde: Oscar Wilde is convicted in London of "unlawfully committing acts of gross indecency with certain male persons" (under the Labouchere Amendment) and given a two years' sentence of hard labour, during which he will write De Profundis.source
• 189525 May – Criminal case of Regina v. Wilde: After a retrial at the Old Bailey, Oscar Wilde is convicted of gross indecency and is taken to Pentonville Prison to begin his two years' sentence of hard labour. On 21 November he is transferred to Reading Gaol.source
• 1896February 11 – Oscar Wilde's play Salomé (1891) has its stage premiere (while Wilde is in prison) in its original French in Paris.source
• 1897May 19 – Oscar Wilde is released from prison in England, and goes into voluntary exile on the continent.source
• 1900November 30 – Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (born 1854)source