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1852	George Carr Shaw and Lucinda Elizabeth Gurly marry.
1853	Lucinda Frances Shaw is born.
1855	Elinor Agnes Shaw is born.
1856	George Bernard Shaw born, 26 July.
1866	Shaw’s parents form ménage à trois at Torca Cottage with George Vandeleur Lee.
1867	Lee moves into Hatch Street residence.
1871	Leaves school, becomes a clerk.
1872	Juvenile literary collaboration with Matthew Edward McNulty.
1873	Mother emigrates to London.
1876	Sister Elinor Agnes dies on the Isle of Wight, 27 March. Shaw emigrates to London, 31 March.
1877	Does ghostwriting for Lee (begun November 1876).
1878	My Dear Dorothea and Passion Play (latter was unfinished).
1879	Completes Immaturity, first novel, and tries work at the Edison Telephone Company.
1880	Begins addressing audiences at Zetetical Society. Writes second novel, The Irrational Knot. Meets Sidney Webb.
1881	Becomes a vegetarian. Begins third novel. Contracts smallpox.
1882	Completes third novel, Love Among the Artists. Meets Alice Lockett. Hears Henry George speak.
1883	Completes fourth novel, Cashel Byron’s Profession. Competes in amateur boxing championships. Reads Karl Marx. Writes fifth novel, An Unsocial Socialist.
1884	Joins Fabian Society. Abortive dramatic collaboration with William Archer. A serialized Unsocial Socialist attracts the attention of William Morris.
1885	Father dies. Begins wearing Jaeger wool. Begins affair with Jenny Patterson. “Mystic Betrothal” to May Morris. Frequent visits to cottage of Henry and Kate Salt; Edward Carpenter also frequent visitor. Book reviews for the Pall Mall Gazette (to December 1888).
1886	George Vandeleur Lee dies. Writes art criticism for The World (through November 1890).
1887	Intimate friendship with Annie Besant. Speaks and marches in socialist demonstration on Bloody Sunday, in Trafalgar Square.
1888	Havelock Ellis invites a contribution to his Contemporary Science series. Involved with numerous women. Busy journalist, Fabian speaker.
1889	Writes music criticism as “Corno di Bassetto” in The Star (through May 1890). Edits Fabian Essays, writes two. Protests Labouchere Ammendment.
1890	Meets Florence Farr. Music critic “G.B.S.” in The World (through August 1894).
1891	The Quintessence of Ibsenism.
1892	Ménage à trois with May Morris and H. H. Sparling begins in December. Completes Widowers’ Houses (begun 1884).
1893	Ends affair with Jenny Patterson. Writes The Philanderer, Mrs. Warren’s Profession (banned by censor).
1894	Completes Arms and the Man, writes Candida. Edward Carpenter’s Homogenic Love published (appears January 1895).
1895	Writes The Man of Destiny. A Degenerate’s View of Nordau (revised as The Sanity of Art, 1908). Oscar Wilde imprisoned.
1895-1898	Writes theater criticism for The Saturday Review.
1895-1900	Maintains “paper courtship” with Ellen Terry.
1896	Meets Charlotte Payne-Townshend. Completes You Never Can Tell, writes The Devil’s Disciple.
1897	Elected vestryman, St. Pancras ward. Havelock Ellis publishes Sexual Inversion.
1898	Health breaks down. Marries Charlotte Payne-Townshend. Defends George Bedborough, who was arrested for selling Sexual Inversion. Writes The Perfect Wagnerite, Caesar and Cleopatra.
1899	Convalesces, writes Captain Brassbound’s Conversion.
1900	Casts Harley Granville Barker as Eugene Marchbanks in Candida.
1901	Writes The Admirable Bashville.
1902	Completes Man and Superman (published 1903).
1903	Works with Harley Granville Barker in staging The Admirable Bashville at the Imperial Theatre.
1904	Writes John Bull’s Other Island, How He Lied to Her Husband.
1904-1907	Provides most of the financial backing for the Royal Court Theatre venture of John Eugene Vedrenne and Harley Granville Barker.
1905	Writes Major Barbara.
1906	Harley Granville Barker marries Lillah McCarthy. Writes The Doctor’s Dilemma.
1908	Completes Getting Married.
1909	Writes The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet (banned by censor), Press Cuttings (banned by censor), The Fascinating Foundling, Misalliance.
1910	Writes The Dark Lady of the Sonnets.
1911	Completes Fanny’s First Play.
1912	Writes Androcles and the Lion; writes Pygmalion; infatuated with his Eliza, Mrs. Patrick Campbell; writes Overruled.
1913	Mother dies. Writes Great Catherine.
1914	Common Sense About the War appears.
1915	Writes playlets The Inca of Perusalem, O’Flaherty, V.C.
1916	Fails to persuade Barker not to leave Lillah McCarthy for Helen Huntington. Begins Heartbreak House.
1917	Completes Heartbreak House (published 1919), writes Augustus Does His Bit, Annajanska.
1918-1920	Back to Methuselah (published 1921).
1920	Sister Lucinda Frances dies.
1921	Completes translation and adaptation of Jitta’s Atonement, drama by Siegfried Trebitsch, his German translator.
1922	Meets T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia).
1923	Writes Saint Joan. T.E. Lawrence calls himself T.E. Shaw.
1924	William Archer dies. Edits Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence, published 1926.
1925	Shaw publicly embarrasses Barker.
1926	Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature (for 1925).
1927	Completes The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism.
1928	Writes Apple Cart. Protests censorship of Radclyffe Hall’s lesbian novel The Well of Loneliness. Meets Gene Tunney.
1929	Vacations with Gene Tunney on Italian isle of Brioni. Writes a preface to the Ellen Terry correspondence (published 1931). Addresses the International Congress of the World League for Sexual Reform.
1930-1938	Collected edition of works appears.
1931	Visits Russia, meets Josef Stalin, Maxim Gorki, Konstantin Stanislavsky. Meets Mahatma Gandhi. Writes Too True to Be Good.
1932	Writes and publishes The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God, a fable.
1933	First visit to America. Writes Village Wooing, On the Rocks.
1934	Writes The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles, The Millionairess, The Six of Calais.
1936	Writes Geneva (final revision 1947), Cymbeline Refinished.
1938	Edits Oscar Wilde, by Frank Harris.
1939	Wins Academy Award for the screenplay of Pygmalion (for 1938). Completes In Good King Charles’s Golden Days.
1943	Charlotte Shaw dies.
1944	Publishes Everybody’s Political What’s What? a labor of several years.
1946	Harley Granville Barker dies. Writes a tribute to him.
1947	Completes Buoyant Billions.
1948	Writes Farfetched Fables.
1949	Writes Shakes Versus Shaw. Publishes Sixteen Self Sketches. Revises Harley Granville-Barker, by Hesketh Pearson.
1950	Writes Why She Would Not to celebrate his ninety-fourth birthday. Works on Bernard Shaw’s Rhyming Picture Guide to Ayot Saint Lawrence. George Bernard Shaw dies in November.
	Biographical Source: Bernard Shaw: The Ascent of the Superman, Sally Peters, Yale University Press, 1996.