360 Alphabet for Goths
The Christian missionary Ulfilas devises an alphabet for the language of the Goths, so that he can translate the Bible into Gothic

1144 Gothic style in France
The new abbey church of St Denis is consecrated near Paris, introducing the style of architecture later known as Gothic

1150 Gothic sculpture in Chartres
The biblical kings and queens in the west porch of Chartres cathedral are a striking early example of Gothic sculpture

1175 English Gothic in Canterbury cathedral
The Gothic style is first seen in Britain in the new east end of Canterbury cathedral

1243 Sainte Chapelle to house relic
Construction begins in Paris on the Sainte Chapelle, designed to house relics acquired by Louis IX, the king of France

1300 Flying buttresses a Gothic development
Flying buttresses are a striking new structural feature on the exterior of Gothic cathedrals

1300 Decorated replaces Early English
The Early English phase in Gothic architecture gives way to the Decorated style

1320 Italian Gothic takes bright new direction
In places such as Siena and Orvieto, Italian architects add a blaze of colour to the more restrained northern pattern of Gothic

1340 New palace for Venetian doge
The Doge's Palace, begun in its present form in this year, is only one of the spectacular beauties of Venetian Gothic

1350 Perpendicular follows Decorated in England
The Perpendicular style develops from the Decorated phase in English Gothic architecture

1390 Fan vaulting
Fan vaulting becomes part of the Gothic tradition, seen to perfection in the cloisters of Gloucester cathedral

1400 International Gothic
The final style of medieval painting, common to all Europe, is known as International Gothic because of its slender and elegant figures

1412 Very Rich Hours of duke of Berry
The three Limburg brothers illustrate for the duke of Berry the Très Riches Heures, one of the masterpieces of International Gothic

1741
John Robartes extends and remodels Radnor House in the gothic style.

1750 Horace Walpole begins Strawberry Hill
Horace Walpole begins to create his own Strawberry Hill, a neo-Gothic fantasy, on the banks of the Thames west of London

1750-97 Walpole begins to create Strawberry Hill
Horace Walpole forms a 'Committee of Taste' with friends John Chute and Richard Bentley, and creates his 'little Gothic castle' over the next 50 years, giving rise to the style 'Strawberry Hill Gothic'.

1764 Castle of Otranto
English author Horace Walpole provides an early taste of Gothic thrills in his novel Castle of Otranto

1798 Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland
US author Charles Brockden Brown publishes Wieland, the first of four novels setting Gothic romance in an American context

1818 Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Mary Shelley publishes Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, a Gothic tale about giving life to an artificial man

1824
The King’s Free School is established in a small Gothic building near the pond, with George IV as a major subscriber

1831 New St Mary's Church iin Hampton
New St Mary's Church opens, designed by Edward Lapidge, in white brick with stone dressings in Gothic revival style and with sqare pinnacled tower at the west end

1835 Pugin and the Gothic Revival
English architect and designer Augustus Welby Pugin plays a major part in the second stage of the Gothic Revival

1835
The architect Charles Barry employs Pugin to design the Gothic detail required in the competition to build the new House of Parliament

1836
Charles Barry wins the competition to design the new Houses of Parliament

1837 Barry begins Houses of Parliament
Work begins on Charles Barry's spectacular design for London's new Houses of Parliament

1837
Pugin begins work on his first contribution to country house architecture, adding extensive Gothic details to Scarisbrick Hall in Lancashire

1839 Fall of the House of Usher
Edgar Allan Poe publishes a characteristically gothic tale, The Fall of the House of Usher

1852 Victoria opens new House of Parliament
Queen Victoria opens the new Houses of Parliament, designed by Charles Barry and Augustus Welby Pugin

1852
The church of St Mary Magdalen in Mortlake, designed in Gothic style by Gilbert Blount, is completed

1856 New royal castle at Balmoral
Victoria and Albert complete their fairy-tale castle at Balmoral, adding greatly to the nation's romantic view of Scotland

1863 Albert Memorial
British architect George Gilbert Scott designs a memorial for Prince Albert in Kensington Gardens

1897 Dracula sucks his first blood
English author Bram Stoker publishes Dracula, his gothic tale of vampirism in Transylvania

1944 August Allies halted north of Florence
The Allied advance in Italy comes to a halt at the Gothic Line of German defences, north of Florence

1946 Titus Groan
Titus Groan begins British author Mervyn Peake's trilogy of gothic novels

1960s
The remaining part of Whitton Tower or Whitton Castle, a gothic tower built in the grounds of Whitton Park in the 1740s, is demolished.