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Graduation From High School
Billy Pilgrim graduates high school in the upper third of his class. He attended one semester of optometry college before being drafted for WWII. (the exact date is not stated but it was this year) -
Lone Survivor Of His Squad
Billy because he is unfit for combat, due to his lack of skills in the field, becomes chaplain's assistant for an Army regiment in Germany. His entire unit gets bombed and he is left the only survivor. He joins three other similarly stranded soldiers and is dragged along with them through German territory. During his party's march back to the Allied front, he "becomes unstuck in time" for the first time. (this specific date is not stated but the year and month are stated) -
Billy Is Taken Prisoner By German Soldiers
Billy is left behind by two of the other stranded soldiers (those soldiers are later found in a bush and killed), he and the last party member, Roland Weary, are also found by German soldiers and are taken prisoner. Upon first confrontation with the German soldiers the soldiers take their shoes and other clothing articles that are better off than what they were wearing. (the exact date isn't stated but the year and month are stated) -
Billy Is Brought To The Prison Camp
After being captured by German soldiers Roland and Billy are put into a train car heading towards Dresden. Roland dies from gangrene due to his mangled feet getting infected after walking for so long in the soldiers clogs. The train stops at a prisoner camp and there he meets Edgar Derby, while at the camp they do whatever was asked of them by the German soldiers up until they are sent off to Dresden to work there. (the exact date is not stated but the year is) -
Discharge From The Military
Billy is honorably discharged from the military, and when he returns back to Ilium he marries the daughter of the founder of the Ilium School Of Optometry. (the specific date is not shown but it is that year) -
Abducted By Tralfamadores
Billy after drinking wine and watching a movie walks out to his backyard and is pulled up into the Tralfamadorians ship, is taken to their home planet and is put in a zoo for the Tralfamdorians' entertainment. (the exact date isn't stated but the year is stated) -
Plane Crash
Billy is involved in a plane crash in Vermont that kills everyone on board except him. His wife Valencia while driving to the hospital Billy is in, gets in a car crash which destroys part of the exhaust and because of this destroyed exhaust she passes out from monoxide poisoning just as she pulls into the hospital. Valencia dies in the hospital after they can't treat her poisoning. (it doesn't state the specific date but it this year) -
Billy Goes To New York
He wants to spread the message of how the Tralfamadorians view time and how it works, he tries to get on a television with his message but in the end his only option is was a late night talk show for literary critics discussing whether or not to "bury" a book. After he is kicked out he goes to an adult book shop where he buys a book written by Kilgore Trout. (it doesn't state the specific date but the year is stated) -
Letter To The Newspaper Describing Tralfamadorians
Billy sends a letter to his towns newspaper stating "They were two feet high, and green, and shaped like plumber's friends... At the top of each shaft was a little hand with a green eye in its palm. They could see in four dimensions. They pitied Earthlings for being able to see only three. The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that all moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. (the specific date isn't stated but it is a month after his NY trip) -
Billy Pilgrims Death
Billy says that at the time of his death, he will be speaking at an engagement in Chicago on the nature of time and flying saucers. As he lectures to the large crowd, he predicts his death — within an hour — revealing Lazzaro's promise to kill him. He closes his speech with a message that death isn't eternal. As Billy leaves the stage, a sniper fires at him from the press box. Billy Pilgrim is dead. (this is Billy's perceived death but we aren't given conformation on this death in the book)
