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Birthdate
Eric A. Blair was his born name -
Moves to London
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Admitted in the imperial police
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Takes imperial police officer post in Burma
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Resigns and moves to London
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Moves to Paris and works as a journalist
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Returns to England and works as a private child tutor
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Becomes teacher at a school for boys in Hayes
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Down and Out in Paris and London
Narrative autobiographical report under a new pen name -George Orwell. Narrates his own experience living in Paris and London for a year and a half. -
Burmese Days
Fiction Novel, vaguely based in the five years Orwell spent in Birmania as a police -
Travels to Spain to take part in the Civil War
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The Road to Wigan Pier
Autobiographical fiction book, based on one of his journeys to the north of England to know more about industrialization. -
Homage to Catalonia
Biography about his experience at the Spanish civil war -
Takes work with BBC's Eastern service
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Adopts child
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Animal Farm
A short novel that satirises Stalinism and shows how it can corrupt socialism. -
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Political Novel -
Dies of Tuberculosis