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1903 Eric Arthur Blair is born on the 25th of June at Motihari, Bengal in India as the son of Richard Walmesley Blair (a civil servant) and Ida Mabel Blair.
1904 In this year he is brought to England by his mother, where they
settle down in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.
1908 - 1911 Eric gets educated at Sunnylands, an Anglican school in
Eastbourne, Sussex.
1911 He leaves Sunnylands and starts at St. Cyprian's School.
1912 Eric's father retires from the India Civil Service and returns to England.
The family now moves to Shiplake near Henley.
1914 Eric Arthur Blair gets his first work, Awake Young Men Of England
(poem), published.
1916 Eric leaves the St. Cyprian's School.
1917 He starts at Eton College as King's Scholar.
1921 Eric leaves Eton College.
1922 Eric Arthur Blair arrives in India as a recruit
for the Indian Imperial Police in Burma.
Serves there trough 1927.
1928 - 1929 He lives now in Paris and works as a dishwasher. In February of 1929
he gets hospitalised because he suffers from pneumonia.
1930 Eric works as schoolmaster in London. He goes tramping in London
and its surroundings. He writes Down And Out In Paris And London, which is rejected twice before it is published. He uses the pseudonym "George Orwell" for the first time.
1933 Orwell suffers again from pneumonia.
1934 - 1935 In these years Burmese Days and A Clergyman's Daughter are published. Orwell meets Eileen O'Shaughnessy, who was 30 at this point of time.
1936 On the 9th of June he marries Eileen O'Shaughnessy. He also gathers
information for The Road To Wigan Pier in this year. Keep The Aspidistra Flying is published and in December Orwell leaves for Spain.
1937 He lives in Spain from January to June. George Orwell gets involved
into street fightings in Barcelona between the government and anarchist
troops. One day he gets wounded at the throat by a sniper. In March of this year The Road To Wigan Pier is published. There is a Left Book Club edition of 40.000 copies of this book.
1938 Orwell comes into a tuberculosis sanatorium in Kent. Homage To
Catalonia is published in April. In September he goes to Morocco for his health.
1939 In this year Orwell's father Richard Blair dies. George Orwell
comes back to England after his stay in Morocco. In June the book Coming Up For Air is published.
1940 Inside The Whale gets published in March. In May he moves to
London. Orwell writes for Time and Tide and Tribune. In this year he
joins the Local Defence Volunteers (Home Guards).
1941 - 1943 The Lion And The Unicorn is published in February
1941. Orwell starts at the BBC as the Talks Producer
in charge of broadcasting to India and Southeast Asia.
In 1943 his mother dies. Orwell also starts his work on Animal Farm in this year.
1943 - 1946 Orwell works as the Literary Editor of Tribune.
1944 George Orwell finishes Animal
Farm. He and his wife Eileen
adopt a one-month-old boy,
whom they name Richard Horatio
Blair.
1945 Orwell is now a war correspondent for The Observer in Paris and
Cologne (March - May). Death of his wife Eileen on March 29th. He
covers the first post-war election campaign (June - July). Animal Farm is published in August after problems finding a publisher for this book.
1946 Critical Essays is published in February. Orwell moves to Barnhill, Isle
of Jura in May. Animal Farm is elected "the book of the month" in the USA and sells half a million copies there.
1947 On Christmas Eve of this year Orwell enters Hairmyres Hospital, near
Glasglow, with tuberculosis of the left lung. Starts writing Nineteen
Eighty - Four.
1948 He returns to Barnhill and completes the revision Nineteen Eighty -
Four by December.
1949 George Orwell enters Costwolds Sanatorium,
Cranham, Gloucestershire in January. In June
Nineteen Eighty - Four is published and sells more
than 400.000 copies in the first year. In September
he is transferred to University College Hospital in
London. George Orwell marries his second wife
Sonia Bronwell, an editorial assistant with Horizon,
in hospital (October).
1950 George Orwell dies suddenly on the 21st of July in University College
Hospital, of a haemorrhaged lung. Buried in the churchyard of All
Saints, Sutton Courtnay, Berkshire as Eric Arthur Blair.
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