| 1928 |
Born on March 6 in Aracataca
The massacre of striking
banana workers on December 6 |
| 1928 - 1936 |
1936 Lives in the house of his maternal grandparents |
| 1936 |
Grandfather dies, returns to parents' home in Sucre |
| 1936 - 1946 |
Studies in Barranquilla |
| 1947 - 1949 |
Studies Law at the National University of Colombia in Bogota |
| 1950 - 1955 |
Abandons Law for Journalism at the University of Cartagena
Publishes his fifteen
stories in El Espectador |
| 1954 |
Returns to Bogota as a reporter for El Espectador |
| 1955 |
Publishes Leaf Storm
Travels to Europe as correspondent for El
Espectador |
| 1956 - 1957 |
Writes No One Writes to the Colonel
Lives in Paris without
a job - El Espectador is shut down |
| 1958 |
Marries Mercedes Barcha in Barranquilla |
| 1959-1961 |
Works for the Cuban news agency La Prensa in Cuba and New York |
| 1962 - 1965 |
Resides in Mexico as editor, screenwriter, and publicist |
| 1962 |
Publishes The Evil Hour and Big Mama's Funeral |
| 1965 |
Begins writing One Hundred Years of Solitude |
| 1967 |
Publishes One Hundred Years of Solitude to global
acclaim
Moves to Barcelona |
| 1969 |
One Hundred Years of Solitude receives the Italian
Chianchiano Prize
and is named the Best Foreign Book in France |
| 1974 |
Garcia Marquez founds Alternativa, a leftist newspaper
in Bogota |
| 1975-present |
Spends time between Bogota and Mexico City |
| 1975 |
Publishes Autumn of the Patriarch |
| 1981 |
Publishes Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Seeks asylum in Mexico |
| 1982 |
Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature |
| 1986 |
Publishes Love in the Time of Cholera |
| 1989 |
Publishes The General in his Labyrinth |
| 1992 |
Publishes Strange Pilgrims |
| 1994 |
Publishes Love and Other Demons |
