George MacDonald: Christian History Timeline
June 30, 2008
DECEMBER 10, 1824 Born in Huntly, Aberdeenshire, 1826 Family moves to the Farm, Huntly 1832 Death of MacDonald's mother, Helen MacKay MacDonald 1840 Enters King's College, Aberdeen 1848 Attends Highbury Theological College, London; proposes to Louisa Powell 1850 Accepts pastorate at Trinity Congregational Church in Arundel, Sussex 1851 Marries Louisa Powell; ordained to Congregational ministry 1852 Birth of first child, Lilia Scott; congregation reduces his salary 1853 Resigns pastorate at Arundel; the family moves to Manchester 1855 Publishes Within and Without: A Dramatic Poem 1856 Lady Byron becomes MacDonald's patron; the family vacations in Algiers 1857 Moves to Huntly Cottage, Hastings 1858 Publishes Phantastes; death of father 1859 Accepts professorship of English literature at Bedford College, London 1863 Publishes David Elginbrod 1865 Begins lecturing at King's College, London 1866 Becomes a member of the Church of England at the Chapel of St. Peter's, Vere Street, where F. D. Maurice is rector 1867 George MacKay, last of II children, is born; the family moves to the Retreat, Upper Mall, Hammersmith; publishes first of three volumes of Unspoken
Sermons 1868 Becomes involved with the housing projects sponsored by John Ruskin and Octavia Hill; publishes Robert Falconer 1869 Becomes editor of Good Words for the Young 1871 Publishes At the Back of the North Wind 1872 George, Louisa, and their son Greville MacDonald go on a lecture tour of America; publishes The Princess and the Goblin 1875 Family leaves the Retreat 1877 Louisa organizes the first family performance of The Pilgrim's Progress, with Princess Louise in attendance; Queen Victoria awards
MacDonald a Civil Lists Pension 1878 Death of daughter Mary 1879 Publishes Sir Gibbie; death of son Maurice 1880 Family settles in Bordighera, Italy; publishes A Book of Strife in the Form of a Diary of an Old Soul 1882 Publishes The Princess and Curdle and The Gifts of the Christ Child 1884 Death of daughter Grace 1895 Publishes Lilith 1891 Death of daughter Lilia 1893 Publishes A Dish of Orts 1901 Louisa and George celebrate their golden wedding anniversary on June 8 1902 Death of Louisa in Bordighera 1905 Dies on September 18 at Ashtead in Surrey; his ashes are buried in Louisa's grave in Bordighera His TIMES
1825 S. T. Coleridge, Aids to Reflection 1837 Victoria ascends the throne 1837-38 Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist 1838 F. D. Maurice, The Kingdom of Christ 1846 Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot) publishes English translation of D. F. Strauss's The Life of Jesus Critically Examined 1850s AND 60s Height of evangelical influence in England 1850 Death of William Wordsworth 1854 Inauguration of the London Working Men's College, with Maurice as first principal 1853-56 Crimean War 1859 Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species 1862 J. W. Colenso, The Pentoteuch and the Book of Joshua Critically Examined 1865 Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 1869-70 First Vatican Council 1870 Universal elementary education introduced in England and Wales 1870s Beginning of the Keswick conferences to promote holiness 1874 G. K. Chesterton is born 1876 Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone 1878 William and Catherine Booth found the Salvation Army 1881 Cambridge University exams open to women 1884 Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn 1888 Mrs. Humphry Ward, Robert Elsmere 1892 Soon after the death of Baptist preacher C. H. Spurgeon, the Bible League is formed 1894 Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book 1899-1902 Boer War 1901 Death of Queen Victoria Copyright © 2005 by the author or Christianity Today International/Christian History magazine.
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