Roald Dahl Timeline - Teaching Ideas · 2016. 9. 2. · and the Chocolate Factory’ is released....

www.teachingideas.co.ukImages: © ThinkStock©

1916Dahl is born

in Llandaff, Wales.

1920Dahl’s sister Astri dies.


1920Harald, Roald’s

father, dies.

1923Dahl starts school.


1925Dahl is sent to boarding

school (St Peter’s in Weston-Super-Mare).

1929Dahl is sent toRepton School.


1934Dahl leaves school and

begins work for Shell Oil.

1938Dahl moves toDar-es-Salaam

in Tanzania.


1939Dahl enlists in the RAF.

1940Roald’s plane crashes in

the Libyan desert.


1941Dahl returns to Britain.

1942Dahl is posted to Washington D.C.


1942Dahl’s first piece of writing is published

in a newspaper.

1943The Gremlins,

Dahl’s first book,is published.


1951Dahl meets Patricia Neal.

1953Patricia Neal and Roald

Dahl marry in New York.


1954Dahl moves to

Great Missenden.

1955Dahl’s daughter

Olivia is born.


1957Dahl’s daughter Chantal

(Tessa) is born.

1960Dahl’s son Theo is born.


1960Theo is injured in a car accident in New York.

1961James and the Giant Peach is published.


1962Roald and Patricia’s

daughter Olivia dies.

1964Charlie and the

Chocolate Factoryis published.


1964Dahl’s daughterOphelia is born.

1965Dahl’s daughter

Lucy is born.


1967Dahl’s mother Sofie dies.

1968Fantastic Mr Fox

is published.


1971The film ‘Willy Wonka

and the Chocolate Factory’ is released.

1975Danny, Champion of the

World is published.


1977Dahl’s first grandchild, Sophie Dahl, is born.

1981Dahl separates from

Patricia Neal.


1982The BFG is published.

1983Dahl marries

Felicity Crosland.


1984Boy, Dahl’s childhood

autobiography,is published.

1988Matilda is published.


1990Dahl dies in Oxford.

2006Roald Dahl Day

is first celebrated.


2010Musical the Matildais first performed at

Stratford-upon-Avon.

2016100th Anniversary of

Roald Dahl’s birth.

Documents