1830. Member of Parliament for Calne. First speech in Parliament. 1831. Speeches on the Reform Bill. Essay on Boswell's Life of Johnson. 1833. Member of Parliament for Leeds. Essay on Horace Walpole. 1834. Essay on William Pitt, Earl of Chatham. Sailed for India as legal adviser to the Supreme Council. 1837. Penal Code finished. 1838. His father died. Returned to England. Visited Italy. 1839. Elected to the Club. Member of Parliament for Edinburgh. Secretary at War. 1840. Essay on Lord Clive. 1841. Reëlected to Parliament for Edinburgh. Essay on Warren Hastings. 1842. Lays of Ancient Rome published. 1843. Essay on Madame d'Arblay. Essay on the Life and Writings of Addison. 1844. Essay on the Earl of Chatham. (The second essay on this subject, and his last contribution to the _Edinburgh Review_.) 1846. Paymaster-General of the Army. Defeated in Edinburgh election. 1848. First two volumes of his History of England. 1849. Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow. 1852. Again elected to Parliament from Edinburgh, although not a candidate. Failing health. 1854. Life of John Bunyan. 1855. Third and fourth volumes of his History of England. (The fifth volume appeared after his death.) 1856. Resigned his seat in Parliament. Life of Samuel Johnson. Life of Oliver Goldsmith. 1857. Became Baron Macaulay of Rothley. 1859. Life of William Pitt. Died December 28. VII. CHRONOLOGY OF JOHNSON'S LIFE AND WORKS 1709. Born September 18. 1728. Entered Pembroke College, Oxford. Turned Pope's Messiah into Latin verse. 1731. Left Oxford. His father died. 1735. Married. Opened an academy at Edial. 1737. Went to London. 1738. His first important work: London. Began to write for _The Gentleman's Magazine_. 1744. Life of Savage. 1747. Prospectus of the Dictionary. 1749. The Vanity of Human Wishes. Irene. 1750-1752. The Rambler. 1752. Death of his wife. 1755. Letter to Chesterfield. The Dictionary appeared. 1758-1760. The Idler. 1759. Death of his mother. Rasselas. 1762. Pensioned. 1763. Met Boswell for the first time. 1764. The Club founded. 1765. Made Doctor of Laws by Trinity College, Dublin. Introduced to the Thrales. His edition of Shakspere published. 1773. Spent three months in Scotland. 1775. Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland published. Taxation no Tyranny. Received the degree of Doctor in Civil Law from Oxford. 1779. First four volumes of his Lives of the Poets. 1781. The remaining six volumes of the Lives. 1784. Died December 13. LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON (_December, 1856_)