The Brontës: A quick timeline

A death curse on your family, and may you outlive them all!

The Cantonese have a dreadful curse: "A death curse on your family!"

Now, there is an even more horrible curse, uttered only at the most extreme circumstance: "A death curse on your family, and may you outlive them all!"

Sadly, The Brontës suffered the second one, with Patrick Brontë outliving his whole family.

1777 Patrick Brontë is born
1783 Maria Branwell is born
1812 Patrick + Maria get married
1814 Maria Brontë is born
1815 Elizabeth Brontë is born
1816 Charlotte Brontë is born
1817 Branwell Brontë is born
1818 Emily Brontë is born
1820 Anne Brontë is born
1821 Maria Branwell dies
1825 Maria Brontë dies / Elizabeth Brontë dies
1846 Pseudonyms Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell's Book of Poems is published
1847 Charlotte's Jane Eyre is published / Emily's Wuthering Heights is published / Anne's Agnes Grey is published
1848 Branwell Brontë dies / Emily Brontë dies / Anne's Tenant of Wildfell Hall is published
1849 Anne Brontë dies / Charlotte's Shirley is published
1853 Charlotte's Villette is published
1855 Charlotte Brontë dies
1857 Charlotte's The Professor is published
1860 Charlotte's Emma is published
1861 Patrick Brontë dies