The life of Billy Pilgrim

His life. I kept the month and day a consistent number on a few because I don't know the day and or month on some of them.

Period: Mar 21, 1920 to Mar 21, 1980

I kept the month and day a consistent number on a few because I don't know the day and or month on some of them.

Pilgrim's birth

Jul 4, 1922

Billy Pilgrim was born in Ilium, New York.

Billy is drafted into army

Mar 21, 1943

At the age of 21, Pilgrim is drafted into the army.

His Transport

Mar 21, 1945

By 1945, the prisoners are transported to Dresden to perform "contract labor". Their living area is an abandoned slaughterhouse.

Bombing of Dresden

Mar 21, 1945

Firebombing of Dresden occurs and over 100,000 people die.

Billy is put into a zoo.

Mar 21, 1966

Billy is taken and put into a zoo on Tralfamadore, where he meets a movie star Montana Wildhack who lives with him at the zoo.

Pilgrim and Guggenheim go back to Dresden

Mar 21, 1967

The exact date is unknown, but Pilgrim and his buddy Guggenheim go back to Dresden after the devestation for the first time in 1967.

Billy Gets Captured

Mar 21, 1967

Billy gets captured by the Tralfamadorians on this evening. He claimed that he knew they would be coming.

Plane Crash

Mar 21, 1968

Billy goes down in a plane crash in the Sugarbush Mountains in Vermont. He is taken immediatly to a hospital.

Valencia Dies

Mar 21, 1968

Valencia dies of carbon monoxide poisening in a car accident.

The Speech

Feb 13, 1976

By 1976, Billy is 53 years old. He gives a speech in Chicago, about his alien abduction.

Billy Pilgrim dies

Feb 13, 1976

Billy Pilgrim is shot at the location of his speech.