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When Billy was born
Billy was born in Ilium NY and he often refers to the feeling of the womb through the enter book. -
Billy's vacation
Billy went to the Grand Canyon and ended up having a bad time. He peed his pants when he got to close to the edge and the whole trip end up being somewhat traumatizing for Billy. -
When Billy's dad died
When Billy was on maneuvers in the army his dad was killed in a hunting accident. -
When Weary Died
Weary dies in the box car with Lazaro there. Weary blames his death on Billy. So Lazaro promises Billy will pay for Weary's death. -
The Dresden bombing
The Dresden bombing is the reason for Billy's PTSD and his "time travel" . Billy was hiding in the meat locker when the bombing was happening. He was still able to hear everything though and saw all the destruction afterwards. -
The Mental Ward
Billy checks himself into a mental ward. During his time there he met Eliot Rosewater who is the first to introduce Billy to books written by Kilgore Trout. Trout becomes Billy's favorite author. -
POW
Both Weary and Billy where captured as POWs by the Germans. When captured Billy becomes unstuck in time. After caught they all got crammed into tiny very crowed box cars with other POWs and German solders. -
The plane crash
Billy, his father in-law and 28 other optometrists and on a plane going to a conference in Montreal.Billy was aware the plane was going to crash. But a man singing Polish song made Billy remember a hanging of a polish man he saw while in Dresden. -
When Valencia dies
After Billy's plane crash Valencia was driving to the hospital to see him when she gets in a car crash and dies from carbon monoxide poisoning. -
Billy meets Kilgore Trout
Billy drives his favorite author Kilgore Trout around to deliver papers and after they deliver the papers Billy invites Trout to his anniversary party. -
Billy's death
Lazaro promised that Billy would pay for causing Weary's death. Billy knew his death was coming he even talked about it during his speech to the audience at the baseball game. He refused protection from the police officers. Later in the day he was shot and killed by a hit man hired by Lazaro.
