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Roald Dahl was born on 13th September, 1916, in Walesh.
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The sister of Roald Dahl Else born and the family moved to Radyr
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Family returns to Wales (UK). Roald begins on infant daycare.
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His older sister and father died this year, his mother by s 6 children is widowed.
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, Roald attends the local Llandaff Cathedral School, an all-boys Preparatory School.
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Roald begins his schooling at St Peter's, Weston-super-Mare
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Roald leaves St Peter's and moves to board at Repton, a famous British Public School near Derby
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Roald leaves Repton and, after taking part in a joint public schools expedition to Newfoundland that he describes in the closing chapters of Boy, he begins working for the Shell Oil Company.
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In Autumn 1938 Roald is sent to Shell's branch office in Dar-es-Salaam, the capital of Tanganyika. He was a year into his contract with Shell when the Second World War broke out.
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Following the outbreak of World War Two, Roald Dahl leaves Shell and heads to Nairobi to enlist in the Royal Air Force (RAF).
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In the summer of 1941
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In Washington he meets British novelist C.S Forester, who encourages him to write about his experiences in the desert. In August 1942 his first paid piece of writing, based on his time flying Gladiators in Libya, is published anonymously in The Saturday Evening Post as Shot Down Over Libya, later titled A Piece of Cake
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Roald Dahl begins work on The Gremlins, published April 1943
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Roald Dahl's dystopian adult novel Some Time Never is published
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Roald Dahl, now aged 37, marries Patricia Neal, aged 27. The ceremony takes place at a small church in downtown New York. 1953 also sees his second short story collection Someone Like You published by Alfred A. Knopf.
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Roald Dahl and his wife Pat buy Little Whitefield Cottage in Great Missenden, later re-named Gipsy House
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Roald Dahl and his wife Patricia Neal's first daughter, Olivia ‘Twenty’, is born in New York.
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Roald Dahl's daughter Tessa is born in Oxford, UK; and his stories appear in Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
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Roald Dahl's son Theo is born; short story collection Kiss Kiss is published
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'Way Out, presented by Roald Dahl, runs for 14 episodes on American TV channel CBS.
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Publication of Roald's first famous book for children, James and the Giant Peach
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Olivia 'Twenty' Dahl, eldest daughter of Roald Dahl and Patricia Neal, dies from measles encephalitis at the age of seven.
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Roald Dahl completes another story for children, The Almost Ducks, which is later published as The Magic Finger.
his wife Patricia Neal wins an Oscar for her performance in Hud. -
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is published in the USA with the UK following a few years later. The book is dedicated to Roald Dahl's son Theo.
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Roald Dahl's wife, actress Patricia Neal, suffers a series of strokes in LA whilst filming John Ford’s Seven Women. She is three months pregnant with their fifth child.
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On 4 August 1965, Roald and Pat’s fifth child and fourth daughter, Lucy, is born.
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Roald Dahl had finished work on The Magic Finger, previously known as The Almost Ducks
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James Bond film You Only Live Twice is released. The screenplay, written by Roald Dahl, is adapted from the book by Roald's wartime friend Ian Fleming
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, which is based on Bond author Ian Fleming's children's book of the same name, goes on to become a classic family film.
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Roald Dahl's latest children's book, Fantastic Mr Fox is published by George Allen and Unwin. The story marks a return to children's fiction for Roald after a five-year break
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The first feature film version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is released as Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
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Roald Dahl's fourth adult short story collection Switch Bitch, which introduces the character of Uncle Oswald, is published by Alfred A. Knopf.
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Roald Dahl's Danny the Champion of the World, like Fantastic Mr Fox, another story partially inspired by the Buckinghamshire
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Roald Dahl's short story collection for teenagers and older children, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, is published by Jonathan Cape.
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Roald Dahl's The Enormous Crocodile, aimed at slightly younger readers, is published by Jonathan Cape.
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Roald Dahl's longer comic novel for adults, My Uncle Oswald, is published. Featuring a character introduced by Roald in some of his earlier short stories.
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Roald Dahl's The Twits, featuring memorable illustrations by Quentin Blake, is published.
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Roald Dahl's George’s Marvellous Medicine, the story of George Kranky and his rather cranky Grandma, is published by Jonathan Cape.
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Roald separate from his wife, actress Patricia Neal, after 28 years of marriage. They have four surviving children: Tessa, Theo, Ophelia and Lucy.
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wo new Roald Dahl works published: Revolting Rhymes, a collection of comic poems for children, and The BFG, a return for Roald to a character he had previously written about in Danny the Champion of the World.
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Publication of The Witches, Dirty Beasts, Ghost Stories
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Roald Dahl and his wife, actress Patricia Neal divorce after 30 years of marriage. Later that year Roald marries his second wife, Felicity ‘Liccy’ Crosland.
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The first of two autobiographical books in which Roald Dahl looks back to his own earlier days is published. Featuring some chapters originally created during the process of writing The Witches, Boy: Tales of Childhood
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Roald Dahl's shorter story for slightly younger readers, The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me, is published in the UK by Jonathan Cape and in the USA by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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1986 also sees the publication of Going Solo, Roald Dahl's second autobiographical book, which continues the story of his younger life from the point he left off in Boy. It focuses on his travels in Africa and his experiences during the Second World War.
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Roald Dahl's Matilda, which would become his last long children's book, is published.
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Roald Dahl's Rhyme Stew, a collection of comic poems for older children, and Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life ;which would be the last of his adult short story collections to be released in his lifetime; are both published.
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Esio Trot becomes the last Roald Dahl story to be published in his lifetime, and Roald's fifth grandchild, Chloe Faircloth, is born. Chloe is Lucy Dahl's second child.
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Roald Dahl dies, aged 74. He is buried in the parish church of St Peter and St Paul in Great Missenden.
