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Roald Dahl is born in Llandaff to Harald Dahl and Sofie Magdalene.
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Dahl's first children's book is published, called The Gremlins, written for Disney. A movie was also made based on this book.
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Sometimes Never, a novel, is published. It is noted as the first book about the nuclear war to be published in the US.
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James and the Giant Peach was published and now one of Dahl's most famous works. It was later turned into a movie in 1996.
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is published and was later turned into a movie in 1971 and a another one in 2005.
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The Magic Finger is published about a girl who turns her neighbors, the Gregg family, into birds with her magic finger.
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Fantastic Mr. Fox is published about a fox who tries to feed his family by stealing chickens, ducks, and turkeys. It was later turned into a movie in October 23, 2009.
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The Enormous Crocodile is published about a crocodile who threatens to eat children, but animals save the children before they are eaten by him. Later, a big elephant swings the Enormous Crocodile towards the sun.
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator is published about the next part of Charlie's trip in the Great Glass Elevator, after he'd won the competition.
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Danny, the Champion of the World is published where 9 year old Danny learns about his father, a car mechanic, who loves poaching pheasants. It was later turned into a TV movie.
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My Uncle Oswald,one of the many adult novels he's written, is published.
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BFG is publsihed which is about a Big Friendly Giant who gives children and other people happy dreams while they sleep. The other giants go to other countries and eat people.
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The Twits is published. The Twits is a short story about a couple who try to outwit each other, but end up dead because they are truly twits.
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George's Marvellous Medicine is published about a boy who is fed up with his grandmother and decides to make her a special medicine that he makes with all this random stuff laying around the house.
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Dahl not only writes children stories, but also writes poems. His collection of poems called Revolting Rhymes contains poems about stories you probably have heard millions of times.
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Boy-Tales of Childhood is published. It is an autobiography of Dahl from his early years to his 20s.
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Going Solo is the sequel to Boy-Tales of Chidlhood telling the story of his times in Swaziland and other adventures he'[s had.
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Matilda is publsihed about a girl who grows up in a family who only cares about watching TV. Matilda eventually learns that she has special mind powers that she uses to scare the "evil" principal at school.
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Esio Trot is published. If you read it backwards, Esio Trot spells out Tortoise.
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Roald Dahl dies in 1990 of an infection.
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Matilda the movie is released, starring Mara Wilson as Matilda.
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The second version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is released, starring Johnny Depp as WIlly Wonka.
