Age of Revolutions (1774 – 1849 CE)

1776

Jemima Wilkinson nearly dies of a fever — when she recovers, she claims the identity of the genderless Publick Universal Friend.
October 13: The Publick Universal Friend gives their first sermon, less than a week after recovering from fever.

1783

The Publick Universal Friend organizes the Society of Universal Friends.

1785

Jeremy Bentham writes a paper entitled “Offences Against Oneself” arguing that consensual sexual acts between two adults in the privacy of a home should not be illegal.

1787

Fernanda Fernandez begins to notice she is developing masculine traits, and reports this to her superiors.

1788

January 22: George Gordon Byron is born.
The Society of Universal Friends pools their resources and purchases some land at the northern end of Keuka Lake.

1789

James Barry is born.

1790

March: The Publick Universal Friend begins leading the Society of Universal Friends to their land.
April 13: The Society of Universal Friends arrives at their land and begins building a town.

1791

April 3: Anne Lister is born.
August 2: John “Mad Jack” Byron — the father of George Gordon Byron — dies in France.

1792

January 21: Fernanda Fernandez is expelled from her nunnery after examinations prove she is intersex.
February 11: Fernanda Fernandez is formally released from her vows.

1798

At ten years old, George Gordon Byron inherits the title of Lord Byron and becomes a member of the landed gentry.

1800

The Publick Universal Friend is taken to court for blasphemy, but the courts rule that blasphemy is not against the law in the United States due to separation of church and state.
Lord Byron begins writing poetry.

1801

Lord Byron is enrolled at Harrow.

1803

September: Lord Byron refuses to return to Harrow, due to his romantic feelings for his cousin Mary Chaworth and her rejection of him.

1804

Anne Lister begins a romantic and sexual relationship with Eliza Raine.
Lord Byron returns to school at Harrow.

1805

Lord Byron has a romantic relationship with his schoolmate John Thomas Claridge.

1806

Anne Lister begins keeping a coded diary.

1809

Lord Byron leaves England for the “Grand Tour” of Europe. While on this journey, he claims to have slept with more than 200 men.
James Barry begins living as a man, and enrolls at the University of Edinburgh.

1810

July 8: The White Swan is raided by the Bow Street Runners. 27 men are arrested.
September 27: The Vere Street Coterie stands in the stocks and is brutalized by an angry mob of onlookers.

1811

Denmark decriminalizes homosexuality when it adopts Napoleon’s legal code.
Lord Byron returns to England and learns that his former lover John Edleston has died. He attempts to resume his relationship with Claridge, but discovers he has become boring.
March 11: John Newball Hepburn and Thomas White, of the Vere Street Coterie, are hung at Newgate Prison.

1812

Lord Byron becomes famous after the first two cantos of “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” are published. He begins an affair with Lady Caroline Lamb.
James Barry graduates the University of Edinburgh and immediately enrolls in classes at United Hospitals of Guy’s and St. Thomas’.

1813

Lady Caroline Lamb returns to England from Ireland and very publicly tries to win back the affections of Lord Byron.
The Phoenix of Sodom is published about the White Swan raid.
July 2: James Barry passes examinations at the Royal College of Surgeons.
July 6: James Barry is commissioned as a hospital assistant in the British army.

1815

January 2: Lord Byron marries Annabella Millbanke.
December 7: James Barry is promoted to Assistant Surgeon to the Forces.

1816

January: Annabella Millbanke publicly separates from Lord Byron.
February 12: John Hobhouse brings word to Lord Byron that rumors of his engaging in sodomy are beginning to emerge.
James Barry is stationed in Cape Town, South Africa.
April 25: Lord Byron leaves England.
Lord Byron stays at Lake Geneva with a crew of his friends and fellow writers. Byron has a brief affair with Claire Clairmont.

1817

Claire Clairmont gives birth to Lord Byron‘s illegitimate daughter Allegra.
Lord Byron has an affair with Margarita Cogni in Venice. When it ends, she drowns herself in the canal.

1819

Lord Byron meets Countess Teresa Giucciolli and the two elope.
July 1: The Publick Universal Friend leaves time.

1821

Lord Byron and Countess Giucciolli move to Pisa.

1822

James Barry is promoted to Colonial Medical Inspector.

1823

Lord Byron travels to Greece to aid in the fight for Greek independence. He sells Rochdale Manor for 11,250 pounds and opens his coffers to the cause.

1824

February 28: Karl-Maria Benkert is born.
Lieutenant General Charles Henry Somerset was accused of “buggering” James Barry. An investigation and trial follow.
April 19: Lord Byron dies of a fever and sepsis.

1825

August 28: Karl Heinrich Ulrichs is born.

1827

November 22: James Barry is promoted to Surgeon of the Forces and stationed in Mauritius.

1828

James Barry returns to South Africa to take care of Lieutenant General Charles Henry Somerset.

1830

Anne Lister is the first woman to climb Monte Perdido in the Pyrenees.

1831

Lieutenant General Charles Henry Somerset dies, and James Barry is sent to Jamaica.

1832

June 6: Jeremy Bentham dies.

1836

James Barry is stationed in St. Helena.

1838

Anne Lister and Ann Walker became the first women and the first non-locals to climb Vignemale — the tallest mountain in the French Pyrenees.

1839

Karl Heinrich Ulrichs has his first sexual experience with another boy.

1840

James Barry is promoted to Principal Medical Officer and is stationed in the West Indies.
September 22: Anne Lister dies.

1843

December 25: Sallie and Patrick Hodgers have a child they name Jennie Irene Hodgers. (estimated year)

1845

James Barry contracts yellow fever and returns to England on sick leave.

1846

James Barry returns to duty and is stationed in Malta.
June 14: Rose Cleveland is born.

1847

Karl-Maria Benkert changes his last name to Kertbeny.

1848

Karl Heinrich Ulrichs finishes his formal education.