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Jim Morrison is born
He was born in Melbourne, Florida, to Clara Virginia and George Stephen Morrison. He had ancestors from Scotland, Ireland and UK. His father participated in the army for the Vietnam War -
Car accident
In 1947 he presenced a car accident in the desert, with three yesrs old, he saw the people of the accident lying down in the fllor injuried. He refered to this event as the most formative event of his life and made references to this at many songs as "Peace Frog" -
Alameda High School
Jim Morrison went to Alameda High School, in Alameda for his first semester of his sophomore year -
George Washington High School and IQ
His family went back to Virginia and he graduated from George Washington High School, whike attending this high school he had very good academic results, he did a test where he discovered that he had 149 of IQ -
Interest in literature and philosophy
He started to interese in various philosophers such us Friedrich Nietzsche and he started to read really strange books from the demonology of the 16th century that none of his teachers knew about. -
Jim Morrison's arrest
This day Jim Morrison was arrested for disturbing the peace and petry larceny while he was drunk in a house at Florida Staye Seminoles football game at Doak Campbell Stadium -
Graduation
He completed his undergraduate degree at UCLA's film school within the Theater Arts department of the College of Fine Arts. He did many films when he graduated at UCLA such as "First Love" -
First music advance
He showed his friend Ray Manzarek a verse of a song he wrote that later was published and called "Hello, I Love You". When Ray listened this he knew that they had to do a band and that´s what they did. -
Complete band
The summer where the duo Jim and Ray appeared, the guitarist Robby Kireger and the drumer Densmore joined this duo and the band was formed -
First single release
Jim Morrison and the Doors produced a promotional film for "Break On Through (To the Other Side)", which was their first single release. continued to make short music films, including "The Unknown Soldier", "Strange Days" and "People Are Strange". Meanwhile the photographer Joel Brodsky took a series of photos of Morrison in a photo shoot known as "The Young Lion" photo session. These photographs are considered among the most iconic images of Jim Morrison -
Number one three weeks
The Doors achieved national recognition in after signing with Elektra Records. The single "Light My Fire" spent three weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in July/August 1967 -
Other arrest
In late 1967, during a concert in New Haven, Connecticut, Morrison was arrested on stage in an incident .Before the show, a police officer found Morrison and a woman in the showers backstage. Not recognizing the singer, the policeman ordered him to leave, to which Morrison mockingly replied, "Eat me." -
Third album
In 1968, the Doors released their third studio album, Waiting for the Sun. On July 5, the band performed at the Hollywood Bowl; footage from this performance was later released on the DVD Live at the Hollywood Bowl. -
Change in Jim´s Morrison style and individual credtis
By early 1969, Morrison had gained weight, grown a beard, and begun dressing more casually, abandoning the leather pants and concho belts for slacks, jeans, and T-shirts. The Soft Parade, the Doors' fourth album, was released later that year. It was the first album where each band member was given individual songwriting credit, by name, for their work. -
Start of The Doors decay
During a concert on March 1, 1969, at the Dinner Key Auditorium in Miami, Morrison started screaming, "You wanna see my cock?" and other obscenities.Three days later, six warrants for his arrest were issued by the Dade County Public Safety Department for a lot of accusations. Consequently, many of the Doors' scheduled concerts were canceled. -
Last album
The Doors released Morrison Hotel. After a lengthy break, the group reconvene to record their final album with Morrison, titled L.A. Woman. Shortly after the recording sessions for the album began, producer Paul A. Rothchild left the project. -
Jim Morrison´s death
On July 3, 1971, Morrison was found dead in the bathtub of the apartment at approximately 6:00 a.m. He was 27 years old. The official cause of death was listed as heart failure, although no autopsy was performed as it was not required by French law. Courson said that Morrison's last words, as he was bathing, were, "Pam, are you still there?"