The Events in the Story

arranged in order of time

1757Hindley Earnshaw is born. Nelly Dean's mother goes to Wuthering Heights as nurse, taking her baby daughter with her.
1762Edgar Linton is born.
1765Catherine Earnshaw is born.
1766Isabella Linton is born.
1771Summer. Old Mr Earnshaw brings the child Heathcliff from Liverpool.
1773Spring. Old Mrs Earnshaw dies.
1774Hindley is sent to college.
1777October. Old Mr Earnshaw dies. Hindley comes home, with Frances, his wife.
End of November. Catherine's misadventure at Thrushcross Grange.
Christmas. Catherine returns home. Heathcliff is humiliated.
1778June. Hareton Earnshaw, son of Hindley and Frances, is born.
A little later, Frances dies, and Nelly Dean has charge of Hareton.
1780Summer. Catherine promises to marry Edgar Linton, and Heathcliff disappears.
Catherine's first illness.
Old Mr and Mrs Linton die.
1783March. Edgar marries Catherine. Ellen Dean goes to Thrushcross Grange with her mistress.
September. Heathcliff returns.
1784January. Quarrel among Edgar, Catherine and Heathcliff.
Heathcliff runs off with Isabella, and marries her. Catherine's second illness.
March. Heathcliff and Isabella return. Heathcliff visits Catherine.
March 20th. Catherine dies, and her daughter Catherine is born.
March 25th. Catherine is buried, and Heathcliff visits the grave.
March 26th. Isabella escapes.
September. Hindley dies, and Heathcliff takes possession of Wuthering Heights.
October. Linton, son of Heathcliff and Isabella, is born.
1797Isabella dies.
Cathy's first visit to Wuthering Heights.
Linton Heathcliff is fetched by his uncle Edgar, and is claimed by his father.
1800March 20th. Cathy's second visit to the Heights. Letters pass between Cathy and Linton Heathcliff.
Autumn. Edgar Linton catches cold and becomes ill.
October Cathy's third visit to the Heights.
The next three weeks. Cathy visits the Heights secretly.
1801August. Cathy meets her cousin Linton on the moors.
Heathcliff gets Cathy to the Heights, and she marries Linton.
September. Edgar Linton dies. Heathcliff visits Catherine's grave again. Linton Heathcliff, as heir, becomes owner of Thrushcross Grange, and of his uncle's lands and money.
October. Linton Heathcliff dies. Heathcliff takes over his son's property.
November. Heathcliff rents Thrushcross Grange to Mr Lockwood for a year. Mr Lockwood visits the Heights. He becomes ill.
1802January. Mr Lockwood leaves Thrushcross Grange for London.
February. Mrs Dean goes back to Wuthering Heights.
Easter Monday. Cathy and Hareton become friends.
April. Heathcliff dies.
September. Mr Lockwood revisits Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights.
1803January 1st. Hareton Earnshaw marries Cathy.