George Orwell

A life in dates

1. 25 June 1903: Born – Motihari, Bengal, British India
2. 1904: Moved to England – With his mother and sister.
3. 1911 – 1916: Attended St Cyprian’s preparatory school – Eastbourne
4. 1914: Awake! Young Men of England. – Poem
5. 1917 – 1921: Attended Eton College as a King’s Scholar.
6. 1922 – 1927: Served as an imperial police officer – Burma, Resigned from the police force due to his growing opposition to imperialism.
7. 1928 – 1929: Lived in Paris and London, working odd jobs and experiencing poverty.
8. 1933: Down and Out in Paris and London – Memoir
9. 1934: Burmese Days – Novel
10. 1936: Married Eileen O'Shaughnessy.
11. 1937: Fought for the Republican army in the Spanish Civil War and was wounded.
12. 1938: Homage to Catalonia – Memoir
13. 1941 – 1943: Worked for the BBC Eastern Service broadcasting propaganda to India.
14. 1943: Became the literary editor of Tribune magazine.
15. 1945: Animal Farm – Novella
16. 1945: Eileen, his wife, dies.
17. 1946: Moved to the remote Scottish island of Jura to work on his final novel. – Jura, Scotland
18. 1947: Diagnosed with severe tuberculosis.
19. 1949: Nineteen Eighty-Four – Novel
20. 21 January 1950: Died – London, England, Aged 46.