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Was born in 2 Bolton Gardens, South Kensington, London, first child of Helen and Rupert Potter.
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Walter Bertram Potter, Beatrix's brother, born at 2 Bolton Gardens.
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Science and Art Department, South Kensington Museum, awarded to Helen Beatrix Potter for model drawing and freehand. 'Excellent' in both.
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Miss Annie Carter, aged nineteen, appointed as new governess and German teacher for sixteen-year-old Beatrix.
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Annie Carter leaves the Potter household to marry Edwin Moore. Beatrix acquires her first rabbit, Benjamin Bouncer.
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Beatrix has serious rheumatic fever affecting her heart that lasted over a month.
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Beatrix sells first drawings to Hildesheimer & Faulkner, London. Used as greetings cards and as illustrations to a book of rhymes, A Happy Pair by Frederic E. Weatherly.
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From Eastwood, Dunkeld, Beatrix sends five-year-old Noel Moore a story about her pet rabbit, Peter. The next day Beatrix sends four-year-old Eric Moore a picture letter about a 'frog called Mr. Jeremy Fisher'.
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Beatrix later wrote, 'Whatever the limitations of his intellect or outward shortcomings of his fur, and his ears and toes, his disposition was uniformly amiable and his temper unfailingly sweet. An affectionate companion and a quiet friend.'
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Frederick Warne publish 8,000 copies of The Tale of Peter Rabbit, shortened and illustrated in full colour throughout.
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Beatrix sends Warne the plan and rules for a game she has devised called The Game of Peter Rabbit.
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Beatrix visits Hill Top Farm whenever she can get away from London. At the farm she now has cows, ducks, hens and pigs, as well as sheep.
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Beatrix Potter and William Heelis marry at St Mary Abbots, Kensington, London. Choose Castle Cottage as home, keeping Hill Top as a place for Beatrix to work.
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Britain declares war on Germany. Beatrix manages the farms, feeding the calves, pigs and poultry.
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Sixty-three-year-old Beatrix buys 5,000-acre Monk Coniston Estate on condition that National Trust will take over half when money raised.
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In hospital again, Beatrix dictates her Will and asks close friends to look after her husband if she doesn't return back home..
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Seventy-seven-year-old Beatrix Potter Heelis dies of pheumonia and heart disease in the night at Castle Cottage, her husband by her side. Cremated in Blackpool, Beatrix's ashes are scattered by her shepherd and farm manager, Tom Storey, on her land in Near Sawrey.
