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Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin, Ireland.
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At the age of ten he attended Portora Royal School (Enniskillen, Ireland) and studied there until the age of seventeen
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Wilde went, on successive scholarships, to Trinity College, Dublin and studied there for 3 years
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He went to Magdalen College, Oxford, which awarded him a degree with honours. During these four years, he distinguished himself not only as a Classical scholar, a poseur, and a wit but also as a poet.
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He dies in Ireland, while Wilde was at school.
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He won the coveted Newdigate Prize with a long poem called Ravenna.
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Oscar Wilde went to London, where he established his residence.
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Wilde traveled to New York, where he worked as lecturer.
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He did his first conference in New York, and it was called The Englis Renaissance
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Wilde married Constance Lloyd, daughter of a prominent Irish barrister.
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His first son, Cyril Wilde, was born.
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His second son, Vyvyan Wilde, was born.
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He works in the magazine "Pall Mall Gazette" for two years.
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He published The Happy Prince and Other Tales, which reveals his gift for romantic allegory in the form of the fairy tale.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray was published in Lippincott’s Magazine, 1890, and in book form in 1891, where Wilde combined the supernatural elements of the Gothic novel with the unspeakable sins of French decadent fiction.
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His first success, Lady Windermere’s Fan, demonstrated that this wit could revitalize the rusty machinery of French drama
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Wilde’s final plays, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, were produced
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Accused by the marquess of being a sodomite, Wilde, urged by Douglas, sued for criminal libel. Wilde’s case collapsed, however, when the evidence went against him, and he dropped the suit.
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Jane Wilde contracted bronchitis in January 1896 and died in Chelsea, England.
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Wilde was released from prison
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Wilde´s wife died and he moved to Paris, where he lived with the name of Sebastián Melmoth.
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At the age of 46, he died of meningitis following an acute ear infection in Paris, France. In his final moments, he was received into the Roman Catholic Church.
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Cyril died in the First World War. He was part of the british army that was fighting in France.
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His friend Robert Baldwin confirmed that he was his first male lover.The ashes Baldwin were added to his grave.
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Vyvyan followed in his footsteps and devoted himself to writing.
