Oscar Wilde
Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)
8 dated entries naming Oscar Wilde, drawn from 7 separate years between 1854 CE and 1900 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.
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19th century
- 1854October 16 – Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (d. 1900)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
- 1890June 20 – The Picture of Dorian Gray (by Oscar Wilde) is published by Philadelphia-based Lippincott's Monthly Magazine (dated July).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
- 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 (b. 1854)source