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Federico Garcia Lorca was Born on June 5, 1898, in Fuente Vaqueros, Spain.
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Oldest of four children born to a wealthy land owner and schoolteacher wife
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When Mount Pelee roared to life again in 1902, the mountain produced one of the deadliest eruptions in recorded history, unleashing a cascade of horrors upon the residents of St. Pierre before obliterating the town in one fatal instant.
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At the age of ten moved to Granada with his family
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In 1919 Lorca moved to the Residensia de estudiantes in Madrid
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World War I officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919. Negotiated among the Allied powers with little participation by Germany, its 15 parts and 440 articles reassigned German boundaries and assigned liability for reparations.
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Libro de poemas was and even collection of predominantly modernista poems culled from his jovenilia
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Lorca visits New York and Cuba to find inspiration
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Lorca wrote el Publico a complex multifaceted play that explores the nature of homosexual passion
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Once he has returned to Spain he completed his second play, Asi que pasen cinco años; aimed at rupturing the bounds of conventional dramaturgy
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In 1933 the premiere of his first Andalusian tragedy, Blood wedding he achieved his first major theatrical success
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Lorca premieres the second of his Andalusian tragedy in his career
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In 1935 Lorca undertook his most overtly political play El sueño, de la vida, a technically innovative work based on recent events in Spain.
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The Spanish civil war begins
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On August 16, he was arrested in Granada by Nationalist forces, who abhorred his homosexuality and his liberal views, and imprisoned without a trial.
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Lorca was executed in the early months of the Spanish civil war, On the night of August 18 or 19 (the precise date has never been verified), he was driven to a remote hillside outside town and shot.
