| 1770/00/00 |
Near the end of 1770, Elizabeth Linley is betrothed to an elderly and wealthy Wiltshire landowner, Walter Long. The engagement will be broken by 1771. |
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| 1771/06/26 |
Samuel Foote's comedy dramatizing Elizabeth Linley's story, "The Maid of Bath", opens a 24 night run at the Haymarket Theatre, London. |
The Haymarket Theatre (Theatre Royal), London
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| 1772/03/18 |
Richard Sheridan picks up Elizabeth Linley at home so they can elope to France. In France, Ms Linley takes refuge in a convent. |
Linley House, Bath
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| 1772/03/25 |
Richard Sheridan and Elizabeth Linley may have, but probably were not, married by a priest in a village near Calais at the end of March 1772. |
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| 1772/04/09 |
Thomas Mathews, a married man and Elizabeth Linley suitor, places an advertisement in the Bath Chronicle insulting Sheridan for "his scandalous Method of running away from this Place by insinuations.... as a L--- and S--------". |
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| 1772/04/29 |
Richard Sheridan and Elizabeth Linley return to England. |
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| 1772/05/04 |
Sheridan and Mathews plan to duel for Elizabeth's honour in Hyde Park, but Mr M objects to the observation of an officer. Mathews eventually lost a duel with swords by candle light at a room in the Castle Tavern (demo), Henrietta St, Covent Garden. |
Hyde Park, London
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| 1772/07/01 |
At their second duel, Thomas Mathews seriously injures Richard Sheridan with 3 or 4 sword wounds to his breast and side, fought at Kingsdown 4 miles from Bath, England. |
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| 1773/04/13 |
Elizabeth Ann Linley marries Richard Brinsley Sheridan in Marylebone Church, London, England. |
Church Of St Mary, Marylebone, London
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