William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge publish Lyrical Ballads. 

1799   The first of the Scotts’ five children, a daughter, is born. Scott secures a steady living when he becomes sheriffdeputy of Selkirkshire, a position he will hold throughout his life. 
1801   The anthology Tales of Wonder,  which contains Scott’s “Glenfinlas” and “The Eve of Saint John,” is published. The Scott family moves to 39 Castle Street in Edinburgh.
1802-  The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border,  a collection of poems
1803   based on traditional ballads, is published in three volumes. 
1804   The Scott family moves to a country house in Ashestiel; the poet Wordsworth pays a visit. Napoleon is crowned emperor of the French. 
1805   The long narrative poem The Lay of the Last Minstrel  is published to overwhelming popularity. Scott edits the works of Dryden, with a biography as preface.
1806   Scott is made principal clerk to the Court of Session in Edinburgh. Ballads and Lyrical  Pieces is published.
1808   The poetic romance Marmion,  another successful work, is published.
1809   Scott helps found the Tory Quarterly Review. He and his old friend James Ballantyne form a printing company. Encyclopaedia Britannica  publishes Scott’s essays “Chivalry,” “Romance,” and “Drama” as part of the fourth edition (1801-1809).
1810  The Lady of the Lake  is published to phenomenal book sales.
1811   The Scott family buys Clarty Hole Farm with plans to build a castle called Abbotsford. George III is declared insane , and the morally suspect Prince of Wales becomes regent. 
1812   Napoleon withdraws from Moscow. 
1813   Scott declines the position of poet laureate. The printing company he formed with Ballantyne collapses and is purchased by Constable and Company. Facing extreme financial duress, Scott is aided by his friend the Duke of Buccleuch. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice  is published.
1814   Napoleon abdicates, and the French monarchy is reinstated. The novel Waverley,  published anonymously, is another great success. Scott continues to publish all his novels anonymously under various noms de plume, including “Jedediah Cleishbotham.”
1815  Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer and The Lord of the Isles  are published. Scott visits the Waterloo battlefield.
1816  Paul’s Letters to his Kinsfolk, The Antiquary, and Tales of My Landlord (first series, including The Black Dwarf and Old Mortality)  are published.
1817  Rob Roy is published. William Hazlitt’s Characters in Shakespeare’s Plays  is published.
1818   Scott receives a baronetcy. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is published. The Heart of Midlothian (the second Tales of My Landlord  novel) is published.
1819   The third Tales of My Landlord series, comprising The Bride of Lammermoor and A Legend of Montrose, is published. Ivanhoe is published under the pseudonym Laurence Templeton and sells a remarkable 10,000 copies in two weeks; it is the first of Scott’s novels to take place outside Scotland. In Manchester, England, people who gather to protest economic conditions are attacked by soldiers in the Peterloo Massacre. Scott’s mother dies. George Gordon, Lord Byron’s Don Juan  is published. John Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale” is published.
1820  The Monastery and The Abbot  are published. George III dies and is succeeded by George IV. Scott is elected president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and Oxford and Cambridge Universities award him honorary doctorates.
  Ivanhoe continues to be a huge success. Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound  is published.
1821  The Pirate  is published.
1822  Kenilworth and The Fortunes of Nigel  are published. As Edinburgh’s most celebrated resident, Scott welcomes King George IV when he visits the city.
1823  Quentin Durward, Peveril of the Peak, and St. Ronan’s Well  are published.
1824  Redgauntlet  is published.
1825  Tales of the Crusaders, including The Betrothed and The Talisman , is published. Around this time, Scott begins his Journal. 
1826   As a major depression grips the country, Scott faces financial ruin when the companies of his publisher and printer collapse. Scott works for the rest of his life to pay off the debt incurred by the disaster. His wife, Charlotte, dies.