November 29, 1898
Clive Staples Lewis born as second son of Albert and Flora Lewis, and brother of Warren Lewis, in Belfast
January 29, 1899
Baptized in St. Mark’s Church, Dundela
April 21, 1905
Lewis family moves from Dundela Villas to Little Lea
August 23, 1908
Mother Flora dies
September 18, 1908
Enrolled at Wynyard School
September 1910
Enrolled at Campbell College
January 1911
Sent to Cherbourg Preparatory School in Malvern
September 18, 1913
Enrolled at Malvern College
September 19, 1914
Beginning private studies with William T. Kirkpatrick in Great Bookham, Surrey
December 6, 1914
Confirmed at St. Mark’s Church, Dundela
December 13, 1916
Receiving a scholarship to University College, Oxford
April 26, 1917
Arriving at Oxford to begin studies
May 1917
Joining Oxford University Officers’ Training Corps and stationed at Keble College, Oxford
November 7, 1917
Sent to France with 3rd Somerset Light Infantry
April 15, 1918
Wounded on Mount Bernenchon during the battle of Arras
May 25, 1918
Transferred to Endsleigh Palace Hospital, London
July 1918
Transferred to Ashton Court Hospital, Bristol
January 13, 1919
Demobilized and return to Oxford
June 1921
Move into the home of Janie Moore, 58 Windmill Road
August 1, 1922
Move with the family Moore to Hillsboro House, 14 Holyoake Road
May 1924
Offered one-year temporary post at University College in philosophy
May 20, 1925
Elected fellow and tutor in English of Magdalen College, Oxford
September 25, 1929
Father Albert dies
October 11, 1930
Move with the family Moore and brother Warren from Hillsboro House to the Kilns
September 28, 1931
Return to a belief in Christianity
April 1940
First weekly Thursday evening meeting of the Inklings until October 1949
August 6, 1941
Start first series BBC radio broadcasts during World War II about Christianity
January 26, 1942
First meeting of the Oxford University Socratic Club with C.S. Lewis as its first president
March 1946
Receiving an honorary Doctorate of Divinity from St. Andrew’s University
September 1952
First meetings with Joy Gresham
June 4, 1954
Elected Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge University
April 23, 1956
Married with Joy Gresham at the Oxford Registry Office
March 21, 1957
Married by Rev. Peter Bide in Joy’s hospital room at Churchill Hospital, Oxford
July 13, 1960
Joy dies
June 24, 1961
Diagnosed with enlarged prostate, too dangerous to operate
June 15, 1963
Admitted to Acland nursing Home following a heart attack
November 22, 1963
C.S. Lewis dies at his home in Oxford