Data compiled from Yale Modernism Lab and from “Ford Madox Ford: A Brief Chronology” in The Good Soldier. Edited by Kenneth Womack and William Baker. Ontario: Broadview Press Ltd., 2003.
| 1889 | Ford’s father, Dr. Francis Hueffer, dies 1889 Ford moves in with grandfather and briefly attends University College School, London 1889 |
| 1890 | |
| 1891 | Ford, The Brown Owl 1891 |
| 1892 | Ford converts to Roman Catholicism 1892 Ford, The Shifting of the Fire 1892 Ford, The Feather 1892 |
| 1893 | Ford, The Questions at the Well 1893 |
| 1894 | Ford is married to Elsie Martindale 1894 Ford, The Queen Flew 1894 |
| 1895 | |
| 1896 | Ford, Ford Madox Brown 1896 |
| 1897 | |
| 1898 | Ford meets Conrad, with whom he will collaborate on a number of novels 1898 |
| 1899 | |
| 1900 | Ford, Poems for Pictures 1900 Ford, The Cinque Ports, 1900 |
| 1901 | Ford (with Conrad), The Inheritors 1901 |
| 1902 | Ford, Rossetti 1902 |
| 1903 | Ford (with Conrad), Romance 1903 |
| 1904 | Ford, The Face of Night 1904 Ford travels to Germany 1904 |
| 1905 | Ford, The Soul of London 1905 Ford, The Benefactor 1905 Ford, Hans Holbein 1905 |
| 1906 | Ford travels to the United States 1906 Ford, The Fifth Queen 1906 Ford, The Heart of the Country 1906 |
| 1907 | Ford meets Violet Hunt, with whom he will have an affair 1907 Ford, Privy Seal 1907 Ford, From Inland 1907 |
| 1908 | Ford founds The English Review, an important modernist periodical 1908 Ford, Mr. Apollo 1908 |
| 1909 | Ford leaves his wife 1909 Ford (with Conrad), The Nature of a Crime 1909 Ford loses control of The English Review 1909 |
| 1910 | Ford, A Call 1910 Ford, The Portrait 1910 |
| 1911 | Ford, The Simple Life Limited 1911 Ford, The Critical Attitude 1911 |
| 1912 | Ford, High Germany 1912 Ford, The Panel 1912 Ford, The New Humpty-Dumpty 1912 |
| 1913 | Ford, Collected Poems 1913 |
| 1914 | Ford, Henry James January 1914 Ford, “Literary Portraits—XVII.: Nineteen-Thirteen and the Futurists” January 3, 1914 Ford, “Literary Portraits—XXIII.: Fydor Dostoievsky and ‘The Idiot’” February 14, 1914 Ford, “Literary Portraits XXXIV: Miss May Sinclair and The Judgment of Eve” May 2, 1914 Ford, “Literary Portraits—XXXV.: Les Jeunes and ‘Des Imagistes’” May 9, 1914 Ezra Pound, “Mr. Hueffer and the Prose Tradition in Verse” June 1914 Ford, “On Impressionism” June 1914 Ford, “Literary Portraits—XLII.: Mr. Robert Frost and ‘North of Boston’” June 27, 1914 Ford, “Literary Portraits XLIII: Mr. Wyndham Lewis and Blast” July 4, 1914 Ford attends dinner party with Wyndham Lewis, E.M. Forster, and Roger Fry July 22, 1914 |
| 1915 | Ford, Antwerp January 1915 Ford, When Blood is Their Argument March 1915 Ford, The Good Soldier March 17, 1915 H.G. Wells reviews Ford Madox Ford’s When Blood is Their Argument March 25, 1915 Rebecca West, “Mr. Hueffer’s New Novel” April 2, 1915 Ford, “Literary Portraits—XXXIX.: Mr. W.B. Yeats and his New Poems” June 6, 1915 Ford enlists in the Welsh Regiment July 30, 1915 Ford, Between St. Dennis and St. George September 1915 Ford, Zeppelin Nights November 18, 1915 |
| 1916 | Ford experiences shell shock during the Battle of the Somme 1916 |
| 1917 | Ford (translator), The Trail of the Barbarians 1917 |
| 1918 | Ford, “On Heaven” and Poems written on Active Service April 11, 1918 |
| 1919 | Ford changes name to “Ford Madox Ford”; begins living with Stella Brown 1919 |
| 1920 | |
| 1921 | Ford, Thus to Revisit May 1921 |
| 1922 | Ford, “‘Ulysses’ and the Handling of Indecencies” December 1922 |
| 1923 | Ford begins editing The Transatlantic Review, another important literary periodical 1923 Ford, Women and Men April 1923 Ford, The Marsden Case May 1923 Ford, Mister Bosphorous and the Muses, or A Short History of Poetry in Britain November 1923 |
| 1924 | Ford begins another affair, this time with Jean Rhys 1924 Ford, Some Do Not April 1924 Ford and Conrad, The Nature of a Crime September 26, 1924 Ford, Joseph Conrad: A Personal Remembrance November 1924 |
| 1925 | Ford, No More Parades September 1925 |
| 1926 | Ford, A Man Could Stand Up October 1926 |
| 1927 | Ford separates from Stella Brown 1927 Ford, New Poems 1927 Ford, New York Essays 1927 |
| 1928 | Ford, Last Post 1928 |
| 1929 | Ford, The English Novel 1929 |
| 1930 | |
| 1931 | Ford, When the Wicked Man 1931 |
| 1932 | |
| 1933 | Ford, The Rash Act 1933 |
| 1934 | Ford, Henry for Hugh 1934 |
| 1935 | |
| 1936 | Ford, Vive Le Roy 1936 Ford, Collected Poems 1936 |
| 1937 | |
| 1938 | |
| 1939 | Ford, The March of Literature 1939 Ford dies in Deauville, France June 26, 1939 |