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Billy Pilgrim is born
Billy Pilgrim was born on the fourth of July in Ilium NY in 1922. -
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Billy is Drafted into the Army
Billy is a chaplain’s assistant sent to the Battle of the Bulge in 1944 and eventually taken prisoner by the Germans due to his unsavy soldier skills.The slaughterhouse where animals are killed in Dresden ends up protecting Billy and others, but it is revealed that many other shelters have collapsed and killed innocent civilians. -
Bombing of Dresden
One hundred thirty thousand innocent people die in Dresden.The bombing of Dresden began February 13, 1945, and lasted through April 17. “There were too many corpses to bury. So instead the Germans sent in troops with flamethrowers." The night of the bombing, as the Americans their guards find refuge in the meat locker, the other guards are at home "being killed with their families." Later, when Allied planes swoop down to strafe any survivors of the bombing, no one in Billy's entourage is hit. -
Committed into a mental institution
Billy commits himself into a mental institution where he meets Eliot Rosewater. Rosewater shows Billy the writings of Kilgore Trout, who later becomes his favorite writer. -
Billy Pilgrim meets Kilgore Trout
Billy meets his favorite author in an alley arguing with his paper boys. He then drives Trout around to deliver papers because one of the boys ended up quitting. -
Billy's Wife Valencia Dies
Valencia died of carbon monoxide poisoning after a car accident. The accident was caused when she was rushing to see Billy after he was injured in an airplane crash. -
Plane Crash
Billy boards an airplane in Ilium, New York, chartered to carry him, his father-in-law, Lionel Merble, and nearly thirty other optometrists to a convention in Montreal, Canada. The plane crashes into Sugarbush Mountain in Vermont, and Billy survives with a fractured skull. -
Radio Show in NYC
Billy escaped his home from his nurse after the accident and set off to NYC. He planned to be on T.V to discuss his life, however he ends up on a radio talk show instead because that's all he could manage to get into. He tells everyone about the Tralfamadorians and how he travels in time. When the show goes to a commercial break he is kicked out of the building because the people there think he is crazy. -
Billy is Captured by Tralfamadorians
On his daughter Barbra's wedding night, Billy is abducted by an alien spaceship and taken to Tralfamadore billions of miles away from earth. Billy lives for years in a zoo on this planet and even meets a porn star named Montana Wildhack and they fall in love and have a baby. He is then sent back to Earth to relive past and future moments of what his life has become. -
Billy Pilgrim Dies
Billy Pilgrim is assassinated in Chicago after holding a press conference to talk about his experience with time travel, the tralfamadorians,and his life in general. He talks of his experience in the Army and predicts the day he will die, which is also the day of the Dresden bombing so many years before. He explained that Paul Lazzaro intended to avenge the death of his friend Roland Weary who was killed because of Billy in the war. He threatens to shoot him, but he will never know when.(Hitman)
