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roald dahl is born
Roald Dahl is born in Llandaff, near the Welsh capital of Cardiff, on 13th September 1916. Roald's parents, Harald Dahl and Sofie Magdalene Hesselberg, were both Norwegian and he was named after Norway's famous polar explorer, Roald Amundsen. -
his dad died
an infection following a burst appendix In February 1920 Roald Dahl's older sister Astri dies from, aged seven. -
Roald Dahl travels to dar es salaam
In Autumn 1938 Roald is sent to Shell's branch office in Dar-es-Salaam, the capital of Tanganyika, East Africa (now Tanzania), on a three-year contract. He was a year into his contract with Shell when the Second World War broke out. -
world war 2
In 1940 Roald is posted to 80 Squadron, Libya to fly "Gloster Gladiators against the Italians in the Western Desert of Libya," as he says in Going Solo. "The Gloster Gladiator," he goes on to say "was an out-of-date fighter biplane with a radial engine. -
Patricia neal
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.
1953 also sees his second short story collection Someone Like You published by Alfred A. Knopf. -
charlie and the chocolate factory
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is published in September, initially in the USA with the UK following a few years later. The book is dedicated to Roald Dahl's son Theo. It would go on to become one of the most famous and best-known of Roald's stories -
the giraffe the pelly and me
In 1985 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. -
he died
Roald Dahl dies, aged 74. He is buried in the parish church of St Peter and St Paul in Great Missenden. -
100 years
13th September 2016 marked 100 years since the birth of Roald Dahl and there were celebrations around the world to mark the occasion.
