Dubliners Timeline

Year Historical Literary Author
1882

First commercial production of electricity

Married Women's Property Act, enables women to buy, own and sell property and to keep their own earnings

Born at Rathgar, Dublin
1883 Fabian Society founded

Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathrustra
1884 Ruskin's Storm Cloud of the Nineteenth-Century
Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain

John Stanislaus Joyce (JSJ) brother, born in Rathmines, Dublin
1885 Haggard's King Solomon's Mines
1887 Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee celebrating 50 years of her reign Haggard's Allan Quartermain

Family moves to Kingstown (now Dun Laoghaire)