CHRONOLOGY OF THE LIFE OF HESTER LYNCH PIOZZI
1741 Born January 27th.
1763 Married Henry Thrale on October 11th.
1764 Daughter, Hester Maria Thrale (Queeney) was born September 9th.
1765 Met Samuel Johnson.
1767 Son, Henry Salusbury Thrale (Harry) was born February 15th.
1768 Met James Boswell on October 16th.
1773 Hester Maria (Cotton) Salusbury, her mother died on June 18th.
1776 Henry Salusbury Thrale (Harry) died on March 23rd.
1781 Henry Thrale died on April 4th.
1784 Married Gabriel Piozzi on July 23rd. Last note to Samuel Johnson on July 15th.
1785 Publishes "Florence Miscellanies". Death of Samuel Johnson.
1786 Publishes "Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D., During the Last Twenty Years of His Life".
1788 Publishes "Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D., to which are Added Some Poems Never Before Printed".
1789 Publishes "Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey Through France, Italy and Germany".
1793 John Salusbury Piozzi, her husband's nephew is born September 9th.
1794 Publishes "British Synonymy; or an Attempt at Regulating the Choice of Words in Familiar Conversation".
1798 John Salusbury Piozzi arrives in England.
1801 Gabriel Piozzi dies on March 26th. Publishes "Retrospection: Or a Review of the Most Striking and Important Events, Characters, Situations and Their Consequences, which the Last Eighteen Hundred Years Have Presented to the View of Mankind".
1808 Queeney marries George Keith, Viscount Elphinstone.
1821 Dies on May 16th.

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