1928 | Born on March 6 in Aracataca The massacre of striking banana workers on December 6 |
1928 - 1936 | 1936 Lives in the house of his maternal grandparents |
1936 | Grandfather dies, returns to parents' home in Sucre |
1936 - 1946 | Studies in Barranquilla |
1947 - 1949 | Studies Law at the National University of Colombia in Bogota |
1950 - 1955 | Abandons Law for Journalism at the University of Cartagena Publishes his fifteen stories in El Espectador |
1954 | Returns to Bogota as a reporter for El Espectador |
1955 | Publishes Leaf Storm Travels to Europe as correspondent for El Espectador |
1956 - 1957 | Writes No One Writes to the Colonel Lives in Paris without a job - El Espectador is shut down |
1958 | Marries Mercedes Barcha in Barranquilla |
1959-1961 | Works for the Cuban news agency La Prensa in Cuba and New York |
1962 - 1965 | Resides in Mexico as editor, screenwriter, and publicist |
1962 | Publishes The Evil Hour and Big Mama's Funeral |
1965 | Begins writing One Hundred Years of Solitude |
1967 | Publishes One Hundred Years of Solitude to global
acclaim Moves to Barcelona |
1969 | One Hundred Years of Solitude receives the Italian
Chianchiano Prize and is named the Best Foreign Book in France |
1974 | Garcia Marquez founds Alternativa, a leftist newspaper in Bogota |
1975-present | Spends time between Bogota and Mexico City |
1975 | Publishes Autumn of the Patriarch |
1981 | Publishes Chronicle of a Death Foretold Seeks asylum in Mexico |
1982 | Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature |
1986 | Publishes Love in the Time of Cholera |
1989 | Publishes The General in his Labyrinth |
1992 | Publishes Strange Pilgrims |
1994 | Publishes Love and Other Demons |