The most important events in the life of C.S. Lewis
29 November 1898
Clive Staples Lewis born in Belfast
29 January 1899
Baptised at St Mark’s Church, Dundela
21 April 1905
Lewis family moves from Dundela Villas to Little Lea
23 August 1908
Mother Flora Lewis dies
18 September 1908
Enrolled at Wynyard School, Belfast
September 1910
Enrolled at Campbell College, Belfast
January 1911
Enrolled at Cherbourg Preparatory School in Malvern
18 September 1913
Enrolled at Malvern College
19 September 1914
Beginning private studies with William Kirkpatrick in Great Bookham, Surrey
6 December 1914
Confirmed at St Mark’s Church, Dundela
13 December 1916
Receiving a scholarship to University College Oxford
April 1917
Arriving at Oxford to begin studies
June 1917
Joining the British Army, and billeted at Keble College in Oxford to be trained as an officer
17 November 1917
Sent to France with 3rd Somerset Light Infantry
29 November 1917
Arriving at the Western Front in France
February 1918
Admitted to the British Red Cross Hospital at Le Tréport with trench fever
15 April 1918
Wounded at Riez du Vinage during the battle of Arras and admitted to the British Red Cross Hospital near Etaples
25 May 1918
Transferred to Endsleigh Palace Hospital, London
July 1918
Transferred to Ashton Court Hospital, Bristol
24 December 1918
Discharged from hospital and demobilised
13 January 1919
Return to University College Oxford
31 March 1920
Taking First in Classical Honour Moderations and beginning reading Literae Humaniores
June 1921
Joining the household of Mrs Janie Moore in Oxford
1 August 1922
Moving with the family Moore to Hillsboro House in Oxford
4 August 1922
Taking First in Literae Humaniores
October 1922
Start reading English Language and Literature
16 July 1923
Taking First in English Language and Literature
May 1924
Start one-year temporary post as tutor in philosophy at University College Oxford
20 May 1925
Elected fellow and tutor in English Language and Literature at Magdalen College, Oxford
25 September 1929
Father Albert Lewis dies
April 1930
First weekly Thursday evening meeting of the Inklings until October 1949
11 October 1930
Moving with the family Moore and brother Warren from Hillsboro House to The Kilns, Oxford
September 1931
Return to a belief in Christianity
6 August 1941
Start first series BBC radio broadcasts about Christianity
11 January 1942
Start second series BBC radio broadcasts about Christianity
26 January 1942
First meeting of the Oxford University Socratic Club with C.S. Lewis as its first president
20 September 1943
Start third series BBC radio broadcasts about Christianity
22 February 1944
Start fourth series BBC radio broadcasts about Christianity
March 1946
Receiving an Honorary Doctorate of Divinity from St Andrews University, Scotland
1948
Elected fellow of Royal Society of Literature
September 1952
First meetings with his later wife Joy Davidman
November 1953
Joy Davidman comes to England with her sons David and Douglas
4 June 1954
Elected Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge University
29 November 1954
Inaugural lecture at Cambridge University
July 1955
Elected member of the British Academy
23 April 1956
Civil marriage with Joy Davidman in a civil ceremony at the Oxford Registry Office
21 March 1957
Christian marriage with Joy Davidman at Wingfield-Morris Hospital, Oxford
26 March 1959
Elected Honorary Fellow of University College, Oxford
13 May 1959
Made Doctor of Letters by Manchester University
June 1959
On Commission for Revision of the Psalter
April 1960
On holiday in Greece
13 July 1960
Joy dies
24 June 1961
Diagnosed with enlarged prostate, too dangerous to operate
1962
Given Honorary Doctorate by University of Dijon
1963
Given Honorary Doctorate by University of Lyon
15 June 1963
Admitted to the Acland Nursing Home following a heart attack
22 November 1963
C.S. Lewis dies at his home in Oxford
27 November 1963
Buried in the churchyard of Holy Trinity Church, Headington Quarry, Oxford
22 November 2013
Dedication of a memorial stone in Poets’ Corner of Westminster Abbey, London
Sources
Walter Hooper, C.S. Lewis. Companion & Guide
Jeffrey Schultz & John West, The C.S. Lewis Readers’ Encyclopedia