Draft chronology of the life of John Claudius Loudon and his wife, Jane Webb Loudon

8 April 1782 born in Cambuslang 'At this early period, however, a taste for landscape gardening began to show itself, as his principal pleasure was in making walks and beds in a little garden his father had given him; and so eager was he to obtain seeds to sow in it, that, when a jar of tamarinds arrived from an uncle in the West Indies, he gave the other children his share of the fruit, on condition of his having all the seeds.' See: Correction to Loudon's date of birth. See also The Claudians: John Claudius Loudon and Claudius Buchanan.

1803 arrived in London

1804 Earl of Mansfield Scone

1804 Observations… Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening

1805 A short treatise on several improvements, recently made in hot-houses

1806 Mr. Loudon was actively engaged in landscape gardening; and towards the close of that year, when returning from Tremadoc, in Carnarvonshire, the seat of W. A. Madocks, Esq., he caught a violent cold by traveling on the outside of a coach all night in the rain. 

1806 A treatise on forming, improving, and managing country residences, Vol. I, Vol. II

1808 Mr. Loudon entered on the farm at Great Tew at Michaelmas, 1808, and left it in February 1811, 

1809 William Loudon died 29th December

1811 Loudon quit Great Tew 

1812 'Mr. Loudon appears from his memorandum books to have been still extensively engaged in landscape gardening, as there are memoranda of various places that he laid out in England, Wales, and Ireland, till the close of 1812. Before this period he had quitted Tew; and finding that he had amassed upwards of £15,000 by his labours, he determined to relax his exertions, and to gratify his ardent thirst for knowledge by traveling abroad.'

1813 Russsia Konigsberg 14th April, , Berlin 4th May to 1st June, Warsaw 6th June, St Petersburg 30th October.

1814 Russia Moscow 4th March, Celebrations for capture of Paris on 5th May. Left Moscow on 2nd June and arrived Krakow 15th June, and thence to Vienna; after which he visited Prague, Dresden, and Leipsig, passing through Magdeburg to Hamburg, where he embarked for England, and reached Yarmouth on the 27th of September, 1814.

1815 Published book on Hothouses

1816 Loudon's mother and sisters left Scotland and he, having determined that in future they should reside with him, took a house at Bayswater called the Hermitage, which had a large garden annexed.

1817 Remarks on the Construction of Hothouses Sketches of Curvilinear Hothouses

1819 Mr. Loudon, however, was not easily deterred from any thing that he had resolved upon, and he proceeded by way of Calais and Abbeville to Paris, where he arrived on the 30th of May, 1819. An Encyclopædia of Gardening 

1825 The Encyclopedia of Agriculture 

1826 JCL established The Gardener's Magazine

1830 Met Jane in February and married her in September. Immediately after our marriage, Mr. Loudon began to rewrite the Encyclopedia of Gardening, which was published in the course of the year 1831. In the beginning of the year 1831 he had an application to lay out a botanic garden at Birmingham, and he agreed to do it merely on the payment of his expenses.

1829 Loudon's 1822 and 1829 proposals included a circular Promenade and a set of concentric Breathing Zones 

1830 Hortus Britannicus 

1831 'In the beginning of the year 1831 he had an application to lay out a botanic garden at Birmingham, and he agreed to do it merely on the payment of his expenses.'

1831 Visit to Scotland but called back to London

1832 Birth of daughter, so switch to writing to Daughter Agnes

1835 The Encyclopedia of Plants, with John Lindley, published

1835 The Encyclopedia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture and Furniture

1838 Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum

1838 Suburban Gardener

1839 Derby Arboretum

1839 Jane’s travels with Agnes by train etc.

1842 Tour to Brighton and SW England

1843 On the Laying Out, Planting and Managing of Cemeteries; And on the Improvement of Churchyards.

14 December 1843 John Claudius Loudon died

See also: Gardenvisit.com appreciation of John Claudius Loudon.