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Roald Dahl is born in Llandaff, near the Welsh capital of Cardiff, on 13th September 1916.
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Roald's sister is born and the Dahl family moved to Radyr.
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Roald Dahl's sister, Astri, dies from an infection.
Weeks later, Roald's father Harald dies at the age of 57. -
Roald Dahl's, his mother Sofie, his brother and his sister, move to Llandaff.
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Roald attends at the local Llandaff Cathedral School, an all-boys Preparatory School, during the years 1923, 1924 and 1925.
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Roald Dahl begins his schooling at St Peter's, Weston-super-Mare
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Roald Dahl moves to Repton, where he sfinishes his schooldays.
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Roald Dahl begins working for Shell Oil
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Roal Dahl goes to Tanzania to work with Shell, he travels to Dar-es-Salaam to work. He is one into his contractwith Shell.
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Roald Dahl is posted to Libya, where he is involved in a plane crash
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Roald Dahl returns to Britain
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Roald Dahl is posted to Washington; completes first paid piece of writing.
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Roald Dahl begins work on The Gremlins, published in April 1943
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Roald Dahl's first short story collection, Over To You, is published by Reynal & Hitchcock.
He returns to the UK. -
Roald Dahl’s first novel, Some Time Never: A Fable for Supermen, based on his Gremlin stories, is published.
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In 1951 Roald Dahl meets his future wife, the American actress Patricia Neal at a dinner party.
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On 2nd July 1953 Roald Dahl, now aged 37, marries Patricia Neal, aged 27. The ceremony takes place at a small church in downtown New York.
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In July 1954 Roald Dahl and his wife Pat buy a house in Great Missenden.
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On 20th April Roald Dahl and his wife Patricia Neal's first daughter, Olivia ‘Twenty’, is born in New York.
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Roald Dahl and his wife Patricia Neal's second daughter Tessa is born in Oxford, UK.
Roald negotiates the television rights for several of his short stories to American TV series "Alfred Hitchcock Presents". -
Theo the Roald Dahl and Patricia Neal's third child and only son is born.
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, 'Way Out, presented by Roald Dahl, runs for 14 episodes on American TV channel CBS.
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In 1960, Kiss Kiss, Roald's third collection of short stories is published.
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Roald Dahl finished Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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publication of switch bitch
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Roald Dahl died on 23 November 1990, at the age of 74 of a blood disease, myelodysplastic syndrome, in Oxford,[62] and was buried in the cemetery at St Peter and St Paul's Church in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, England.
