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1942
Stephen Hawking was born in Oxford on 8th January. He is the first child of Frank and Isabel Hawking. The family were living in London at the time. -
1950
The Hawking family leave London to go and live in St Albans. They buy a house there. -
1952
Stephen starts as a student at St Albans School. He makes some good friends there and becomes interested in math and physics. -
1959
At the age of seventeen, Stephen became a student at the University of Oxford. -
1962
Stephen travels to Iran with a friend by bus and train. They are in a bus accident in an earthquake and his family do not hear from him for ten days.
Stephen leaves Oxford with a very good degree and starts to do research in cosmology at the University of Cambridge.
Stephen meets Jane Wilde at a friend's party in Cambridge. He soon falls in love with her. -
1963
Doctors tell Stephen that he has motor neurone disease and has only a few years to live. He is very unhappy for some time, but then starts work again. -
1965
Stephen marries Jane Wilde in St Albans. He can still walk, but it is not easy. -
1966
Stephen starts a research job at the University of Cambridge. -
1967
Stephen and Jane's first child, Robert is born. -
1969
Stephen and Jane's second child, Lucy, is born. Lucy later writes some books for children with her father. -
1974
Stephen becomes a member of the Royal Society. Stephen works for a year at the California Institute of Technology. -
1977
Stephen becomes a professor of physics at the University of Cambridge. -
1979
Stephen and Jane’s third child, Timothy, is born.
Stephen becomes a professor of mathematics at the University of Cambridge. -
1985
Stephen cannot speak any more. At first, he points to letters on a card. Then he starts to use a special speaking machine. A computer controls it. -
1988
Stephen writes A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes. Millions of people buy the book. He becomes very famous and people see him on television and in the newspapers. -
1995
Stephen divorces Jane Wilde and marries Eline Manson. -
1997
Stephen travels to Antartica. -
1999
Stephen is in The Simpsons for the first time. He uses the voice from his speaking machine. -
2002
Stephen goes up in a balloon for his sixtieth birthday. -
2007
Jane Wilde writes a book about her life with Stephen. Later the book becomes the film The Theory of Everything.
Stephen goes to the Kennedy Space Center to fly in zero gravity. He loves it. -
2009
Stephen goes to the White House in Washington, D.C president Barack Obama gives him the presidential Medal of freedom. -
2012
Stephen speaks at the opening of the London Paralympic Games. He speaks about science and the universe. -
2014
The film The Theory of Everything, with EddieRedmayne and felicity jones,tells the story of Stephen’s life. -
2015
Working with Yuri Milner, Stephen helps to start ten years of research into intelligent life in the universe. The work will finish in 2025. -
2018
Stephen dies at home in Cambridge. He is seventy-six years old.