A life in dates
- 6 March 1927: Born
- 1961: No One Writes to the Colonel – Novella
- 1967: One Hundred Years of Solitude – Novel
- 1975: The Autumn of the Patriarch – Novel
- 1981: Chronicle of a Death Foretold – Novella
- 1985: Love in the Time of Cholera – Novel
- 17 April 2014: Died – Aged 87.