24 September 1896 Birth of Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald at 481 Laurel Avenue, St. Paul. April 1898 After failure of his St. Paul furniture factory, Edward Fitzgerald takes job as salesman with Procter & Gamble in Buffalo, New York. 24 July 1900 Birth of Zelda Sayre at South Street, Montgomery, Alabama. January 1901 Fitzgerald family moves to Syracuse, New York. July 1901 Birth of Annabel Fitzgerald. September 1903 Fitzgerald family moves back to Buffalo. 1907 Sayre family moves to 6 Pleasant Avenue, Zelda's home until her marriage. July 1908 Edward Fitzgerald loses his job and the Fitzgerald family returns to St. Paul. FRANCIS enters St. Paul Academy in September. 1909 Judge Sayre of the City Court is appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama. October 1909 Publication of 'The Mystery of the Raymond Mortgage' in St. Paul Academy Now & Then - Francis' first appearance in print. August 1911 Francis writes his first play, The Girl from Lazy J, in St. Paul. September 1911 Francis enters Newman School, Hackensack, New Jersey. August 1912 Production of The Captured Shadow in St. Paul. November 1912 Francis meets Father Sigourney Fay and Shane Leslie. August 1913 Production of 'Coward' in St. Paul. September 1913 Francis enters Princeton University with Class of 1917; meets Edmund Wilson '16 and John Peale Bishop '17. August 1914 Production of Assorted Spirits in St. Paul. Fall 1914 Francis contributes to Princeton Tiger. Zelda enters Sidney Lanier High School. December 1914 Production of Fie! Fie! Fi-Fi!, Francis' first Princeton Triangle Club show. Christmas 1914 Francis meets Ginevra King in St. Paul. April 1915 'Shadow Laurels,' Francis' first publication in Nassau Literary Magazine. December 1915 Francis drops out of Princeton for remainder of junior year. Production of The Evil Eye by Triangle Club. September 1916 Francis returns to Princeton as member of Class of 1918. December 1916 Production of Safety First by Triangle Club. 26 October 1917 Francis receives commission as infantry 2nd lieutenant. 20 November 1917 Francis reports to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; begins novel 'The Romantic Egotist.' February 1918 FRANCIS reports to Camp Taylor, Louisville, Kentucky. March 1918 FRANCIS completes first draft of 'The Romantic Egotist' while on leave at Princeton; submits novel to Scribners. April 1918 FRANCIS transferred to Camp Gordon, Georgia. May 1918 Zelda graduates from Sidney Lanier High School. June 1918 FRANCIS reports to Camp Sheridan near Montgomery, Alabama. July 1918 FRANCIS and Zelda meet at country club dance in Montgomery. August 1918 Scribners declines 'The Romantic Egotist'; revised typescript rejected in October. November 1918 FRANCIS reports to Camp Mills, Long Island, to await embarkation; war ends before unit sent overseas. December 1918 FRANCIS returns to Camp Sheridan; becomes aide-de-camp to General J.A. Ryan. February 1919 FRANCIS discharged from army. Planning to marry Zelda, he goes to New York and works for the Barron Collier advertising agency; lives in room at 200 Claremont Avenue. Spring 1919 FRANCIS visits Montgomery in April, May and June as Zelda remains reluctant to commit herself to marriage. The Smart Set takes 'Babes in the Woods' - his first commercial story sale. June 1919 Zelda breaks engagement. July-August 1919 FRANCIS quits advertising job and returns to St. Paul; rewrites novel while living with parents at 599 Summit Avenue. 16 September 1919 Maxwell Perkins of Scribners accepts This Side of Paradise. November 1919 FRANCIS becomes client of Harold Ober at Reynolds agency. First sale to The Saturday Evening Post: 'Head and Shoulders.' FRANCIS visits Zelda in Montgomery. November 1919-February 1920 The Smart Set publishes 'The Debutante,' 'Porcelain and Pink,' 'Benediction,' and 'Dalyrimple Goes Wrong.' Mid-January 1920 FRANCIS lives in boarding house at 2900 Prytania Street in New Orleans, where he stays less than a month. Engagement to Zelda resumes during his visits to Montgomery. March-May 1920 'Myra Meets His Family,' 'The Camel's Back,' 'Bernice Bobs Her Hair,' 'The Ice Palace,' and 'The Offshore Pirate' appear in The Saturday Evening Post. 26 March 1920 Publication of This Side of Paradise. 3 April 1920 Marriage of FRANCIS and Zelda at rectory of St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York. Honeymoon at Biltmore Hotel. May-September 1920 Fitzgeralds rent house at Westport, Connecticut. July 1920 Publication of 'May Day' in The Smart Set. Summer 1920 Fitzgeralds drive to Montgomery; return to Westport by mid-August. 10 September 1920 Publication of Flappers and Philosophers: Francis' first short-story collection. October 1920-April 1921 Fitzgeralds take apartment at 38 West 59th Street, New York City. May-July 1921 Fitzgeralds make first trip to Europe; sail to England then visit France and Italy. Return home and visit Montgomery. August 1921 Fitzgeralds travel to St. Paul; rent house at Dellwood, White Bear Lake. September 1921-March 1922 The Beautiful and Damned serialized in Metropolitan Magazine. 26 October 1921 Birth of daughter Scottie. November 1921-June 1922 Fitzgeralds rent house at 626 Goodrich Avenue, St. Paul. Summer 1922 Fitzgeralds move to White Bear Yacht Club. 4 March 1922 Publication of The Beautiful and Damned. June 1922 Publication of 'The Diamond as Big as the Ritz' in The Smart Set. 22 September 1922 Publication of Tales of the Jazz Age: Francis' second collection of short stories. Mid-October 1922-April 1924 Fitzgeralds rent house at 6 Gateway Drive in Great Neck, Long Island. Friendship with Ring Lardner. December 1922 Publication of 'Winter Dreams' in Metropolitan Magazine. 27 April 1923 Publication of The Vegetable. November 1923 The Vegetable fails at tryout in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Mid-April 1924 Fitzgeralds sail for France. May 1924 Fitzgeralds visit Paris, then leave for Riviera; stop at Grimm's Park Hotel in Hyäres and settle in June at Villa Marie, Valescure, St. Raphael. June 1924 Publication of 'Absolution' in The American Mercury. Summer-Fall 1924 FRANCIS writes The Great Gatsby. ZF's involvement with French aviator Edouard Jozan in July. July 1924 Publication of "'The Sensible Thing'" in Liberty. Summer 1924 Fitzgeralds meet Gerald and Sara Murphy at Cap d'Antibes. Winter 1924-25 Fitzgeralds stay at Hotel des Princes, Rome, where FRANCIS revises The Great Gatsby. February 1925 Fitzgeralds travel to Capri; stay at Hotel Tiberio. 10 April 1925 Publication of The Great Gatsby. Late April 1925 Fitzgeralds move to Paris; rent apartment at 14 rue de Tilsitt. May 1925 FRANCIS meets Ernest Hemingway in Dingo bar. August 1925 Fitzgeralds leave Paris for month at Antibes. January 1926 ZF takes 'cure' at Salies-de-Béarn. January and February 1926 Publication of 'The Rich Boy' in Redbook Magazine. February 1926 Play version of The Great Gatsby, by Owen Davis, produced on Broadway. 26 February 1926 Publication of All the Sad Young Men: Francis' third short-story collection. Early March 1926 Fitzgeralds return to Riviera and rent Villa Paquita at Juan-les-Pins. May 1926 Hemingways join Murphys and Fitzgeralds on Riviera. Fitzgeralds move to Villa St. Louis, Juan-les-Pins where they remain until end of 1926. December 1926 Fitzgeralds return to America. January 1927 Fitzgeralds go to Hollywood, to work on 'Lipstick' (unproduced) for United Artists. Meet Lois Moran. March 1927- March 1928 Fitzgeralds rent 'Ellerslie,' near Wilmington, Delaware. ZF begins ballet lessons. April 1928 Fitzgeralds return to Europe. April-August 1928 Fitzgeralds rent apartment at 58 rue de Vaugirard, Paris. April 1928 Publication of 'The Scandal Detectives' in The Saturday Evening Post: first of eight-story Basil Duke Lee series. Mid-summer 1928 ZF begins ballet training with Lubov Egorova in Paris. September 1928 Fitzgeralds return to America. September 1928-March 1929 Fitzgeralds at 'Ellerslie.' Winter 1928-March 1929 ZF begins writing series of short stories for College Humor. March 1929 Publication of 'The Last of the Belles' in The Saturday Evening Post. March 1929 Fitzgeralds return to Europe; travel from Genoa along Riviera, then to Paris. June 1929 Fitzgeralds leave Paris for Riviera; rent Villa Fleur des Bois, Cannes. October 1929 Fitzgeralds return by car to Paris by way of Provence; take apartment at 10 rue Pergolese. February 1930 FRANCIS and ZF travel to North Africa. April 1930 ZF has first breakdown in Paris, enters Malmaison clinic outside Paris on 23 April, then Valmont clinic in Switzerland on 22 May. Publication of 'First Blood' in The Saturday Evening Post: first of five-story Josephine Perry series. 5 June 1930 ZF enters Prangins clinic at Nyon, Switzerland. Summer and Fall 1930 FRANCIS lives in Switzerland. Late January 1931 Death of Edward Fitzgerald, FRANCIS returns alone to America to attend burial; reports to Sayres about ZF. February 1931 Publication of 'Babylon Revisited' in The Saturday Evening Post. July 1931 Fitzgeralds spend two weeks at Lake Annecy, France. 15 September 1931 ZF released from Prangins. Fitzgeralds return to America. September 1931-Spring 1932 Fitzgeralds rent house at 819 Felder Avenue in Montgomery. FRANCIS goes to Hollywood alone to work on Red-Headed Woman for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 17 November 1931 Death of Judge Sayre. February 1932 ZF suffers second breakdown; enters Phipps Psychiatric Clinic of Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. March 1932 ZF completes first draft of her novel, Save Me the Waltz, while at Phipps Clinic. 20 May 1932-November 1933 FRANCIS rents 'La Paix' at Towson outside Baltimore. 26 June 1932 ZF discharged from Phipps; joins family at 'La Paix.' 7 October 1932 Publication of Save Me the Waltz. 26 June-1 July 1933 ZF's play, Scandalabra, produced by Vagabond Junior Players in Baltimore. December 1933 FRANCIS rents house at 1307 Park Avenue, Baltimore. January-April 1934 Serialization of Tender Is the Night in Scribner's Magazine. January 1934 ZF's third breakdown; enters Sheppard-Pratt Hospital outside Baltimore. March 1934 ZF transferred to Craig House, Beacon, New York. 29 March-30 April 1934 ZF's art exhibition in New York. 12 April 1934 Publication of Tender Is the Night. 19 May 1934 ZF transferred back to Sheppard-Pratt Hospital. February 1935 FRANCIS at Oak Hall Hotel in Tryon, North Carolina. 20 March 1935 Publication of Taps at Reveille. May 1935 FRANCIS spends summer at Grove Park Inn, Asheville, North Carolina. September 1935 FRANCIS takes apartment at Cambridge Arms, Charles Street, Baltimore. November 1935 FRANCIS at Skyland Hotel in Hendersonville, North Carolina; begins writing 'The Crack-Up' essays. 8 April 1936 ZF enters Highland Hospital in Asheville. July-December 1936 FRANCIS returns to Grove Park Inn. September 1936 Death of Mollie McQuillan Fitzgerald in Washington. Scottie enters Ethel Walker School in Connecticut. January-June 1937 FRANCIS at Oak Hall Hotel in Tryon. July 1937 Deeply in debt, FRANCIS goes to Hollywood for third time with six-month M-G-M contract at $1,000 a week. Lives at Garden of Allah on Sunset Boulevard; meets Sheilah Graham 14 July. First week of September 1937 FRANCIS visits ZF in Asheville; they spend four days in Charleston and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. September 1937-January 1938 FRANCIS works on Three Comrades script, his only screen credit. December 1937 M-G-M contract renewed for one year at $ 1,250 a week; FRANCIS works on scripts for 'Infidelity,' Marie Antoinette, The Women, and Madame Curie. End of March 1938 Fitzgeralds spend Easter at Virginia Beach, Virginia. April 1938 FRANCIS rents bungalow at Malibu Beach, California. September 1938 Scottie enters Vassar College. October 1938 FRANCIS moves to cottage at 'Belly Acres,' Encino. December 1938 M-G-M contract not renewed. January 1939 FRANCIS works briefly on Gone with the Wind. February 1939 FRANCIS travels to Dartmouth College with Budd Schulberg to work on Winter Carnival; fired for drinking. March 1939-October 1940 FRANCIS takes free-lance jobs at Paramount, Universal, Twentieth Century-Fox, Goldwyn and Columbia studios. April 1939 Fitzgeralds travel to Cuba. FRANCIS goes on bender; is hospitalized on return to New York. July 1939 FRANCIS breaks with Harold Ober. October 1939 FRANCIS begins work on The Last Tycoon; attempts to sell serial rights to Collier's. January 1940 Publication of 'Pat Hobby's Christmas Wish' in Esquire, first of seventeen-story series. c. 15 April 1940 ZF discharged from Highland Hospital; lives with her mother at 322 Sayre Street in Montgomery. May 1940 FRANCIS moves to 1403 North Laurel Avenue, Hollywood. May-August 1940 FRANCIS works on 'Cosmopolitan' ('Babylon Revisited') script. 21 December 1940 FRANCIS dies of heart attack at Sheilah Graham's apartment, 1443 North Hayworth Avenue, Hollywood. [see "Fitzgerald's Obituaries"] 27 December 1940 FRANCIS buried in Rockville Union Cemetery, Rockville, Maryland. 27 October 1941 Publication of The Last Tycoon. August 1945 Publication of The Crack-Up. September 1945 Publication of The Portable F.Scott Fitzgerald. November 1947 ZF returns to Highland Hospital from Montgomery. 10 March 1948 ZF dies in fire at Highland Hospital, Asheville, N.C. 17 March 1948 ZF buried with FRANCIS.