J.R.R. Tolkien Timeline
From Tolkien Gateway
This article or section is in the early stages of construction and should not be viewed as complete, or even close to being finished. |
This article intends to list the main events of the life of J.R.R. Tolkien in a chronological order.
1892[edit | edit source]
- 3 January: J.R.R. Tolkien is born.
1894[edit | edit source]
- 17 February: Tolkien's younger brother Hilary is born.
1895[edit | edit source]
- April: Tolkien's mother Mabel moves with her sons from South Africa to Birmingham, England.
1896[edit | edit source]
- 15 February: Tolkien's father Arthur Tolkien dies of rheumatic fever.
- Summer: Tolkien's mother moves with her sons to Sarehole.
1900[edit | edit source]
- June: Tolkien's mother is received into the Catholic Church.
- September: Tolkien begins attending King Edward's School.
1902[edit | edit source]
- Tolkien begins attending St. Philip's School.
1903[edit | edit source]
- Autumn: Tolkien returns to King Edward's School, having won a Foundation Scholarship.
1904[edit | edit source]
- April: Mabel Tolkien is hospitalized with diabetes. Tolkien is sent to live with his aunt Jane Neave.
- June: Mabel Tolkien partially recovers and goes, with her sons, to Rednal in Worcestershire to convalesce.
- 14 November: Tolkien's mother dies after a relapse.
1905[edit | edit source]
- Tolkien and his brother go to live with their aunt Beatrice Suffield.
- Autumn: Tolkien meets his friend Christopher Wiseman at King Edward's.
1911[edit | edit source]
1915[edit | edit source]
- Tolkien graduates Oxford University with first-class honours.
- 15 July: Tolkien is commissioned as second lieutenant in the Lancashire Fusiliers
1916[edit | edit source]
- 22 March: Tolkien marries Edith Bratt.
1917[edit | edit source]
- 16 November: Birth of Tolkien's oldest son John.
1920[edit | edit source]
- Autumn: Tolkien becomes a reader in English language at the University of Leeds.
- 22 October: Birth of Tolkien's second son Michael.
- November: Tolkien leaves the army retaining his rank of lieutenant.
1924[edit | edit source]
- 21 November: Birth of Tolkien's third son Christopher.
1925[edit | edit source]
- Return to Oxford as Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and then Merton Professor of English Language and Literature
1929[edit | edit source]
1937[edit | edit source]
- 21 September: Publication of The Hobbit.
1954[edit | edit source]
- 29 July: Publication of The Fellowship of the Ring.
- 11 November: Publication of The Two Towers.
1955[edit | edit source]
- 20 October: Publication of The Return of the King.
1959[edit | edit source]
- Tolkien retires from Oxford.
1971[edit | edit source]
- 29 November: Tolkien's wife Edith dies at the age of 82.
1972[edit | edit source]
- Tolkien is made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- Tolkien receives an honorary Doctorate of Letters from Oxford University.
1973[edit | edit source]
- 2 September: J.R.R. Tolkien dies at the age of 81.