| 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 |
