Roald Dahl

By 25StennFinn
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    WW1

    This is world war 1

  • Roald Dahl is born

  • Younger sister Else is born

  • They move to Radyr

    Radyr, a village outside of Cardiff

  • Asta dies

  • Roald's father dies

  • Goes to school

    At The Cathedral school

  • Goes to his first boarding school

    At St. Peter in Weston-super-Mare

  • Went to Repton school

  • Leaves school age 18

  • Works at shell oil

  • Roald goes to Tanzania

    In Autumn 1938 Roald is sent to Shell's branch office in Dar-es-Salaam, the capital of Tanganyika, East Africa (now Tanzania), on a three-year contract. He was a year into his contract with Shell when the Second World War broke out.
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    WW2

    This is World war 2

  • Joins Royal Air Force

    Roald Joins the Royal Air Force

  • Roald is posted to Lybia

  • Roald is involved in a plane crash

  • Posted to Athens, Greece

  • Roald returns to Britian

  • Writes his first paid peice of writing

  • Roald starts work on the Gremlins

  • Gremlins is published

  • Second book published

    Called 'Sometime never'

  • Marries Patricia Neal

    In New York!

  • Roald's daughter Olivia is born

  • The Honeys opens on broadway

    The Honeys is a play made by Roald Dahl

  • Second daughter Chatel (aka Tessa) is born

  • Baby Theo is born

  • Baby Theo is in an accident

    His pram is hit by a taxi, giving him hydrocephalus or "water on the brain."

  • Olivia (eldest child) Dies

    died from measles encephalitis. At 7

  • Patricia wins an Oscar

    Yay!

  • Patricia suffers a series of strokes

  • Lucy is born

  • Roald dahls 'You only live twice' is a hit in box office

  • Roald's mother dies

    AWWWW! :(

  • Man lands on the moon

  • First movie adaption of Roald's books comes out

    Charlie and the chocolate factory

  • Partnership starts with quentin blake

  • Roald and Patrcia divorce

  • Roald Dahl dies