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Born the 11th of May, 1904 in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain
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In 1922 Dali attened The San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid Spain
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In 1927 Dali was recruited for a 9th month military service to the Castle of San Fernando.
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The Basket of Bread was Dali's first painting to be displayed professionally. The painting originally resigned in the US at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, and is now in the Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida.
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Gala Éluard and Dali met in 1929, they would later marry.
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On Jaunary 30th, 1934 Dali and Gala are married.
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Dali was on the cover of the December 14th,1936 Time Magazine.
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For the 1939 World's Fair in New York, Dali created "The Dream of Venus". "The Dream of Venus" was a sort of interactive art "Funhouse".
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After Germany occupied Paris in 1940, Dali and his Wife moved to America where they lived fo the next 8 years.
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In 1941 Dali had his first major restospective at the Museum of Modern Art, in New York.
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In 1945 Dali was hired by Alfred Hitchcock to create the iconic dream secnes in the thriller movie "Spellbound".
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After 8 years living in the U.S. In 1948, Dali's return home to Spain. He returned to New York every Winter.
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In 1965 Dali's entire Morse collection was displayed at the Huntington Hartford's Gallery of Modern Art in New York.
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In 1974 the Teatre-Museu Dali, in Figueres, Spain, opens.
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Gala died in Port Lligat in the early morning of 10 June 1982, aged 87
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The King of Spain "Juan Carlos" gives Dali the title of Marquis of Pubol.
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On January 23 1989, Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech dies of heart failurein Figueres. Dali is buried under the geodesic dome in the Teatre-Museu Dali.
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In 1945, Walt Disney and Salvador Dalí collaborated to create a short film called "Destino". Because of the financial trouble Disney faced during WW2, production had to stop after only 8 months. n 1999 Walt Disney's nephew Roy E. Disney found the work that had been done on the film and decided that he would continue creating the film. In 2003 it was finished. The film is only about 6 minutes long and said to be one of the most visually pleasing films of all time.
