• November 29, 1898
Clive Staple Lewis born in Belfast, Ireland.
• August 23, 1908:
Lewis’s mother, Florence Augusta (‘Flora’) Hamilton Lewis, dies.
• September 18, 1908
Sent to the Wynyard School in Watford, Hertfordshire, England.
• September 1910:
Enrolls as boarding student at Campbell College, Belfast, Ireland; leaves in December due to
respiratory problems.
• September 1911:
Enrolls at Cherboug House near Malvern College, England; abandons his Christian faith.
• April 1914:
Meets Arthur Greeves, who becomes a lifelong friend.
• September 19, 1914:
Is privately tutored by W. T. "The Great Knock" Kirkpatrick.
• December 1916:
Receives a scholarship to University College, Oxford.
• June 8, 1917:
Enlists in British Army.
• April 1918:
Lewis’s close friend Paddy Moore reported killed in battle.
• April 15, 1918:
Wounded in Battle of Arras.
• December, 1918:
Discharged from British Army.
• 1919:
Moves in with Moore’s mother, Mrs Janie King Moore, and sister, Maureen.
• May 20, 1919
Publishes Spirits in Bondage under the pseudonym Clive Hamilton.
• May 20, 1925:
Appointed English Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, where he tutors English Language and
Literature.
• May 11, 1926:
Meets friend and colleague J.R.R. Tolkien.
• September 20, 1926:
Publishes Dymer under the pseudonym Clive Hamilton.
• September 24, 1929:
Lewis’s father, Albert Lewis, dies in Belfast.
• 1929:
Abandons atheism and converts to theism.
• October 11, 1930:
Lewis, the Moores, and later Warren, Lewis's brother, move into "The Kilns".
• September 1931:
Converts to Christianity.
• May 25, 1933:
Publishes The Pilgrim’s Regress.
• May 21, 1936:
Publishes The Allegory of Love.
• September 23, 1938:
Publishes the first novel in the Space Trilogy series, Out of the Silent Planet.
• April 25, 1940:
Weekly meetings of the "Inklings" begin.
• October 18, 1940:
Publishes The Problem of Pain.
• August 1941:
Begins war-time broadcast talks on Christianity, later collected as Mere Christianity.
• January 26, 1942:
Attends the first meeting of Oxford University's Socratic Club.
• February 9, 1942:
Publishes The Screwtape Letters.
• July 13, 1942:
Publishes Broadcast Talks, based on BBC recordings.
• October 8, 1942:
Publishes A Preface to Paradise Lost.
• January 6, 1943:
Publishes The Abolition of Man.
• April 19, 1943:
Publishes Christian Behaviour, based on BBC recordings.
• April 20, 1943:
Publishes the second novel in the Space Trilogy series, Perelandra.
• October 9, 1944:
Publishes Beyond Personality, based on BBC recordings.
• August 16, 1945:
Publishes the third novel in the Space Trilogy series, That Hideous Strength.
• January 14, 1946:
Publishes The Great Divorce.
• June 28, 1946:
Awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity by the University of St. Andrews.
• May 12, 1947:
Publishes Miracles.
• September 8, 1947:
Appears on the cover of Time magazine.
• 1948:
Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
• September 13, 1949:
Publishes The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses.
• October 16, 1950:
Publishes the first novel in the Chronicles of Narnia series, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.Buy
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• January 12, 1951
Mrs. Moore dies.
• October 15, 1951:
Publishes the second novel in the Chronicles of Narnia series, Prince Caspian: The Return to
Narnia.
• July 7, 1952:
Publishes Mere Christianity, which combines previously published Broadcast Talks (1942), Christian
Behavior (1943), and Beyond Personality (1944).
• September 15, 1952:
Publishes the third novel in the Chronicles of Narnia series, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.Buy this
book
• September 7, 1953:
Publishes the fourth novel in the Chronicles of Narnia series, The Silver Chair.
• 1954:
Becomes chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge.
• September 6, 1954:
Publishes the fifth novel in the Chronicles of Narnia series, The Horse and His Boy.
• September 16, 1954:
Publishes English Literature in the Sixteenth Century.
• May 2, 1955:
Publishes the sixth novel in the Chronicles of Narnia series, The Magician’s Nephew.
• September 19, 1955:
Publishes Surprised By Joy.
• March 19, 1956:
Publishes the seventh, and final, novel in the Chronicles of Narnia series, The Last Battle.
• April 23, 1956:
Marries Joy Davidman Gresham.
• September 10, 1956:
Publishes Till We Have Faces.
• September 8, 1958:
Publishes Reflections on the Psalms.
• June 1959:
Becomes, with T. S. Eliot, a member of the Commission to Revise the Psalter.
• March 28, 1960:
Publishes The Four Loves.
• July 13, 1960:
Lewis’s wife dies.
• September 9, 1960:
Publishes Studies in Words.
• June 1961:
Diagnosed with kidney inflammation.
• September 29, 1961:
Publishes A Grief Observed under the pseudonym N. W. Clerk.
• October 13, 1961:
Publishes An Experiment in Criticism.
• November 22, 1963:
Dies.
• January 27, 1964:
Posthumously publishes Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer.
• May 7, 1964:
Posthumously publishes The Discarded Image.
• June 9, 1966:
Posthumously publishes Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature.
