| Timeline |
| 1904 |
Born Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí 11 May, in Catalonia |
| 1914 |
Attends school run by the Brothers of the Marist Order in Figueres |
| 1917 |
Studies drawing at the Municipal School of Drawing in Figueres |
| 1919 |
Quand les Bruits s’endorment published, also contributes articles and illustrations to the local review Studium |
| 1921 |
Mother dies |
| 1922 |
Attends the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid |
| 1923 |
Suspended from the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts for criticising the lectures |
| 1924 |
Imprisoned for 35 days in Girona for alleged subversion |
| 1925 |
Returns to the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid, one-man show at the Dalmau Gallery in Barcelona |
| 1926 |
Travels to Brussels and Paris, expelled from the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts for refusal to take his final examination (on grounds that he knows more than the professor that will quiz him) |
| 1927 |
Called for nine months of military service |
| 1928 |
Visits Paris again, meets the Dadaists and Surrealists, Manifest Groc published |
| 1929 |
First meets Gala Éluard, she is married but becomes his lover and they eventually marry |
| 1930 |
Buys a fisherman’s cottage at Port Lligat, and later spends a large portion of each year there with Gala |
| 1934 |
Marries Gala 30 January, first trip to New York, expelled from the Surrealist movement |
| 1936 |
Flees Spain during Spanish Civil War |
| 1939 |
Returns to France |
| 1940 |
Flee France during Nazi invasion, remain in exile in the United States until 1948 |
| 1942 |
The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí published
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| 1948 |
Fifty Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship published, returns to Spain |
| 1964 |
Awarded the Grand Cross of Isabella the Catholic, The Diary of a Genius published |
| 1979 |
Inducted into France’s prestigious Académie Française des Beaux-Arts |
| 1982 |
Gala dies, title of Marquès de Dalí de Púbol conferred by Spain’s King Juan Carlos |
| 1984 |
Dali suffers severe burns in a fire in the bedroom of his castle, he goes into seclusion |
| 1986 |
Receives a pacemaker after suffering heart failure |
| 1989 |
Dies of heart failure 23 January in Figueres |
