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Billy is born
Billy Pilgrim was born in Ilium, New York on the Fourth of July of 1922 -
Vaction at Grand Canyon
Billy as a 12 year old boy pee's his pants at the sight of the mile drop that's in the Grand Canyon -
drafted to join the army
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Death of Billy's father
Billy's father dies in a hunting accident while Billy is on maneuvers in the army. -
sent to Luxembourg to fight the Germans
Battle of the Bulge. -
Firebombing of Dresden
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Billy is Dischargend form the army
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mental ward
Billy commits himself to a non-violent mental ward. While there, he meets Eliot Rosewater. Eliot introduces Billy to the writing of Kilgore Trout -
Lions Club
Billy is elected president of the local Lions club in Illium, NY. -
Billy's mother is addmited to nursing home
Billy admits his old mother into a nursing home, -
Biily meets Kilgore
BIlly meets his favorite author, Kilgore Trout. He then drives Trout around to deliver papers because one of Trout's paper boys quit. -
Plane Crash
The plane carrying Billy and other optometrists crashes in Vermont. Only Billy and the co-pilot survive. -
Valencia dies
While Billy is recovering, Valencia dies in her car of carbon monoxide poisoning. -
New York City and the Radio Show
Billy goes to NYC, where he attempts to appear on a radio show and tell everyone about the Tralfamadorians, and time travel. He is quickly kicked off of the show, as people there see him as insane. -
Billy is captured
On Barbara's wedding night, Billy is captured by an alien space ship and taken to a planet billions of miles away from Earth called Tralfamadore. On Tralfamadore, Billy meets a porn star, also abducted, named Montana Wildhack, who disappeared and is believed to have drowned herself in the Pacific Ocean. She and Billy fall in love and have a child together. Billy is sent back to Earth to relive past or future moments of his life. -
Billy dies
Billy is assasinated in Chicago after his time travel speech by a hitman hired by Paul Lazzaro. Lazarro promised to avenge Roland Weary's death during war.