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1906 - Samuel Barclay Beckett is born on 13 April to a middle-class Protestant family, Dublin, Ireland.
1920-1923 - Attends Portora Royal School (Northern Ireland).
1923-1927 - BA (Modern Literature: French and Italian) Trinity College, Dublin.
1928 - Joinsteaching staff of Campbell College, Belfast.
1928-1930 - Exchange teacher (English), École Normale Supérieure, Paris.
1930-1932 - Assistant lecturer (French), Trinity College, Dublin.
1931 - First drama sketch - Le Kid (parody).
1931 - Literary criticism Proust published.
1933 - Father dies.
1934 - Short story collection More Pricks Than Kicks published.
1935 - Verse Echoís Bones and Other Precipitates published.
1938 - Novel Murphy published. Beckett is stabbed in the street by a stranger and nursed by Suzanne Deschevaux-Dumesnil.
1942 - Member of French Resistance; escapes Gestapo.
1945-1946 - Employed by Red Cross, Normandy.
1947 - Drama Eleutheria (still unperformed) and the novel Molloy completed.
1949 - En attendant Godot and the novel Malone Dies completed.
1950 - Novel The Unnamable completed. Mother dies.
1951 - Molloy and Malone Dies published, Paris.
1952 - En attendant Godot published, Paris.
1953 - En attendant Godot première, Paris; novel, Watt, published.
1954 - Waiting for Godot published in English, New York.
1955 - Waiting for Godot premièred, London
1956 - Act Without Words 1 and 11written.
1957 - All That Fall radio play broadcast by BBC; Endgame written and premièred, London; Act Without Words 1 premièred, London.
1958 - Krapp's Last Tape written and premièred, London.
1959 - BBC radio play Embers broadcast; awarded Italia Prize.
Late 1950s - Rough for Theatre I and Rough for Theatre II written.
1960 - Act Without Words II premièred, London; Happy Days written.
1961 - Happy Days premièred, New York; Rough for Radio 1 written. Beckett marries Suzanne Deschevaux-Dumesnil.
1962 - Radio play Words and Music broadcast by BBC.
1963-1964 - Play written and premièred in West Germany; radio play Cascando broadcast in France.
1965 - Film,Beckett's only film, starring Buster Keaton, premièred in New York; Come and Go written.
1966 - Eh Joe television play broadcast, BBC London.
1968 - Come and Go premièred, Dublin.
1969 - Nobel Prize for Literature awarded; Breath written and premièred in New York.
1972 - Not I written and premièred, New York.
1974-75 - That Time written.
1975 - Footfalls written.
1975 - Rough for Theatre I, Rough for Theatre II and Rough for Radio 11 first published in English, That Time and Footfalls published.
1977 - ... but the clouds ... television play broadcast, BBC London.
1979 - Ghost Trio television play broadcast, BBC London; A Piece of Monologue written.
1980 - A Piece of Monologue premièred, New York; Rockaby and Ohio Impromptu written.
1981 - Rockaby premièred, New York; Ohio Impromptupremièred, Ohio State University.
1982 - Catastrophe written and premièred in Avignon, France.
1983 - What Where written and premièred in New York.
1989 - Beckett dies on 22 December in Paris.
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