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Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali i Domènech is born in Figueres, Spain on May 11.
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Dali attends the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid.
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Dali is recruited to the Castle of San Fernando for nine months of military service.
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Salvador Dali exhibits his first painting in the US at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, PA.
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Dali meets his future wife Gala Éluard. He also joins several other artists in the burgeoning Surrealist movement.
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Dali and Gala are married in a civil ceremony on January 30.
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At an International Surrealist exhibition in London, Dali gives a speech in a diving suit. On December 14, 1936 Dali is featured on the cover of Time Magazine.
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Dali creates "The Dream of Venus" for the 1939 World’s Fair. Its inclusion of installation art and performance will profoundly influence the course of art in the world.
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Following the German occupation of Paris, the Dali’s flee to America to live for the next eight years. He works with prominent figures such as Alfred Hitchcock and Walt Disney. The couple divides their time living between New York and California.
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Salvador Dali’s first major retrospective is held at the Museum of Modern Art, in New York.
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The Dali's return to Spain for the first time after 8 years in the United States. However, Dali returns to New York every Winter.
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Huntington Hartford’s Gallery of Modern Art, New York, holds a major Dali retrospective exhibition featuring the entire Morse collection.
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Salvador Dali’s museum, the Teatre-Museu Dali, in Figueres, Spain, opens on September 28.
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King Juan Carlos of Spain confers the title of Marquis of Pubol on Dali. Dali succeeds in changing it to the Marquis of Dali and Pubol.
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Salvador Dali dies of heart failure on January 23 in Figueres. He is buried under the geodesic dome in the Teatre-Museu Dali.
