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Joanne Kathleen Rowling is born in Yate, England
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Jo's train is delayed 4 hours and has the inspiration of Harry Potter. She starts creating rough drafts on her train ride from London to Manchester
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Jo moves to Portugal to teach English, where she wrote first drafts of Chapters for 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone'.
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Jo marries Jorge Arantes and has a baby girl, Jessica. But, divorces him by Novemeber
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'Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone' was auctioned to Scholastic in the USA for $105,000. 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone' is published by Bloomsbury in the UK, with an initial run of 1,000 copies.
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J,K. Rowling becomes famous for her all time best-selling series 'Harry Potter'. Jo becomes the 13th wealthiest person in all of England.
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'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets' is published. Warner Brother's purchases the rights to turn the first two books in the Harry Potter series into movies.
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'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban' is released. Jo is the first author to win the Smarties Prize three times in a row.
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'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire' is released.
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'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix' is released. Jo and Neil's son David is born.
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Jo and Neil's daughter, Mackenzie is born. 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Princ'e is released.
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Jo finishes writing 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows' in a hotel room in Edinburgh. 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows' is released and becomes the fastest selling book of all time.
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'The Wizarding World of Harry Potter' is officicaly opened at Universal Parks in Orlando, Florida.