1904: Salvador Dal born in Figueres (formerly Figueras), Spain, on May 11, in the

district of Girona in Catalonia, the son of Salvador Dal y Cusi, a notary, and Felipa
Domnech.

1908: Ana Mara, Dals sister, is born.

1914: Dal begins his education at a private school run by the Brothers of the Marist
Order in Figueres.

1916: On a summer vacation, he encounters modern paintings.

1917: Studies drawing under Professor Juan Nuez at the Municipal School of
Drawing in Figueres. First exhibition, at the family apartment.

1918: The city of Figueres presents two exhibits of works arranged by Dals father
in the upper foyer of the Teatro Municipal, which is now converted into the Teatro
Museo Dal. Dal experiments with impressionism and pointillism.

1919: Contributes articles and illustrations to the local review Studium, a college
magazine, later published by the Institute of Figueres. Also publishes Quand les
Bruits sendorment (poems).

1921-22: Dals mother dies in February. He attends the San Fernando Academy of
Fine Arts in Madrid, and lives there. While there, he meets Federico Garca Lorca and
Luis Buuel. Exhibits paintings in a student art show at the Dalmau Gallery,
Barcelona. Experiments with cubism.

1923: Dal criticizes his lectures and is suspended from the San Fernando Academy
of Fine Arts on the charge of inciting a student rebellion against school authorities.

1924: Dal imprisoned for 35 days in Girona for alleged subversion. Illustrates Les
Bruixes de Llers by C. Fages de Climent.

1925: Lorca stays with the Dal family. Dal returns to the San Fernando Academy of
Fine Arts in Madrid. His first one-man show is held at the Dalmau Gallery in
Barcelona. Numerous contributions to Gaseta de les Artes. Receives considerable
local notice as a leading young Catalan painter.

1926: In April, his first trip to Brussels and Paris with his aunt and his sister, Ana
Mara, where he visits Picasso and Mir. His second one-man show held at the
Dalmau Gallery in Barcelona. Dal expelled from the San Fernando Academy of Fine
Arts for refusal to take his final examination on grounds that he knows more than
the professor that will quiz him.

1927: Dal called to the Castle of San Fernando to do nine months of military
service. Does theatre designs, including Lorcas Mariana Pineda. Collaborates
regularly on the journal LAmic de les Arts, in which his first major written work,
"Saint Sebastian," appears. Dal is visited by Mir, who encourages him to establish
himself in Paris.

1928: On Dals second visit to Paris, Mir introduces him to Dadaists and Surrealists
group. Publishes the Manifest Groc ("Yellow Manifesto") in Sitges, Spain, with Llus
Montay and Sebasti Gasch. Participates in the annual International Exhibition of
Paintings at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, exhibiting The Basket
of Bread, which is consequently purchased. Executes a series of gravel collages
revealing the influence of Gris, Picasso, Ernst, Mir, Arp, and other contemporaries.

1929: Dal first meets Gala luard when she visits Cadaqus in the summer with her
husband, the French poet Paul luard. She will become Dals lover, his muse, and
inspiration, when he seduces her, leading to a break with his father. Also, through
Mir, meets Tristan Tzara. Exhibitions in Zrich. Dals first one-man show in Paris, at
Goemans Gallery. Un Chien Andalou, for which Dal and Luis Buuel wrote the
scenario, is shown at the Ursulines Film Studio in Paris "amid much scandal and
sensation." Banished from home. Contributes seven articles to LAmic de les Arts,
including "Review of Antiartistic Tendencies," a veritable defense of La Revue
Surraliste, in which Dal takes a strong stand against all academicism.

1930: Vicomte de Noialles buys The Old Age of William Tell. Energetically involved
with the Surrealist group and designs the frontpiece for the Second Surrealist
Manifesto. Publishes in the magazine Le Surralisme au Service de la Rvolution a
long poem-manifest, "Lne Pourri," in which he expounds his theory of the
paranoiac-critical process of thought. Writes and illustrates La Femme Visible
(published in Edition Surralistes, Paris) dedicated to Gala. Buys a fishermans
cottage at Port Lligat, and later spends a large portion of each year there with Gala.
Collaborated with Luis Buuel on the scenario of Lge dOr. This film, which caused
a scandal, was shown at Studio 28 in Paris. The League of Patriots and others rioted
in protest against the film, destroying many surrealist works exhibited in the lobby.
The film was finally banned.

1931: Writes and publishes Love and Memory in Editions Surralistes. Exhibit at the
Pierre Colle Gallery in Paris.

1932: The Persistence of Memory is first exhibited in a surrealist retrospective at the

Julien Levy Gallery in New York, first exhibition is the States. Dal writes a scenario,
Babaouo, which was never filmed. This work contains a critique on the cinema and
an essay on William Tell. Pierre Colle Gallery presents a one-man show.

1933: Collectors and friends form "The Zodiaque" group, whose purpose is to
subsidize the Catalan artist. Julien Levy Gallery organizes Dals first one-man show
in the United States, in New York. Dal continues to collaborate with the magazines
Le Surralisme au Service de la Revolution and Minotaure. In the latter, he publishes
his article on "edible beauty" and art nouveau architecture, which revives interest in
the aesthetics of the turn of the century. His first surrealist works shown in Spain, at
the Galerie Catalane in Barcelona.

1934: The Enigma of William Tell offends the Surrealist group, and leads to
arguments with Andr Breton. Gala and Dal are married in a civil ceremony on
January 30. Dals first one-man show in London is held at the Zwemmer Gallery.
Dal expelled from the Surrealist movement but continues as a peripheral figure.
Produces 42 etchings to illustrate Les Chants de Maldoror by Comte de Lautramont
for Albert Skira. Dal and Gala make their first trip to New York, and his series of
special illustrations of the city appears in the American Weekly from February to
July. Exhibits at Julien Levy Gallery on Madison Avenue in New York is a great
success.

1935: Julien Levy publishes The Conquest of the Irrational in New York and Paris.
This major essay expounds on Dals "paranoiac-critical" method, a "spontaneous
method of irrational knowledge, based on the interpretive-critical association of
delirious phenomena." Dal lectures at the Museum of Modern Art on "Surrealist
Paintings and Paranoiac Images."

1936: Dal gives a lecture in a diving suit on the occasion of the International
Surrealist Exhibition in London. Spanish Civil War forces Dal to leave Spain. Signs a
contract with the English collector Edward F.W. James, whose patronage will
subsidize Dals career through 1938. Dal appears on the cover of Times magazine
in December, on the occasion of the "Fantastic Art, Dada, and Surrealism" exhibition
at the New Yorks Museum of Modern Art. Paints Autumn Cannibalism and Soft
Construction with Boiled Beans: Premonition of Civil War.

1937: Dal visits Harpo Marx in Hollywood to write the scenario for Giraffes on
Horseback Salad. Writes "The Metamorphoses of Narcissus," a paranoiac poem
illustrating his double-image painting of the same name. In three visits to Italy, he
studies Palladio and is increasingly influenced by the Renaissance and baroque
painters. Dal designs dresses and hats for Elsa Schiaparelli. Breton and the
Surrealists condemn his comments on Hitler.

1938: Dal introduced to the ailing Sigmund Freud by Stefan Zweig in London, and
draws numerous portraits of him. Participates in the International Surrealist
Exhibition in Paris, showing Rainy Taxi, then drifts away from the Surrealist
movement, asserting "LSurralismeCest moi!"

1939: The breach with the Surrealists is now final. Andr Breton anagramatically
dubs Dal "Avida Dollars." In New York, he accidentally crashes through Bonwit
Tellers window, while rearranging a surrealist window display. Dals Declaration of
Independence of the Imagination and the Rights of Man to His Own Madness
published in defense of his "Dream of Venus" exhibit for the New York Worlds Fair.
Bacchanale, a ballet, premiers at the Metropolitan Opera House with scenario,
costumes, and sets done by Dal, and choreography by Lonide Massine. Dal
returns to France.

1940: The Dals flee from Arcachon, France, shortly before the Nazi invasion, taking
the SS Excambion from Lisbon to the United States, paid by Picasso. They remain in
exile in the States until 1948, arriving first at the Hampton Manor in Virginia (the
home of Dals friend Caresse Crosby), then traveling between the Del Monte Lodge
in Pebble Beach, California, and the St. Regis Hotel in New York.

1941: Dal exhibits at the Julien Levy gallery in New York, the Art Club of Chicago,
and the Dalzell Hatfield Gallery in Los Angeles. His first retrospective exhibition held
at the Museum of Modern art in New York, in conjunction with a show of Mir. Dals
ballet Labyrinth opens in New York. The Museum of Modern Art show travels to
Cleveland, Detroit, and Chicago in 1941 and 42.

1942: The Secret Life of Salvador Dal, a fictionalized autobiography, is published in

New York by Dial Press.

1943: The Morses (donors of the St. Petersburg Museum collection) purchase their
first Dal painting, Daddy Longlegs of the EveningHope!. Dal creates the first
series of jewels for the Duke de Verdura. Dal exhibits portraits of American
personalities at the Knoedler Gallery in New York. The Morses attend this show and
meet Dal and Gala. Dal completes studies for three murals for New York apartment
of Helena Rubenstein.

1944: Dal designs costumes and sets for three ballets: Sentimental Colloquy, Mad
Tristan, and El Caf de Chinitas. His novel Hidden Faces is published by Dial Press.
Dal is commissioned by Billy Rose to do seven paintings to illustrate the "seven
lively arts" for the lobby of the Ziegfeld Theater. Creates a second series of jewels
for Carlos Alemany.

1945: Dal News is published for his exhibition at the Bignou Gallery in New York.
Illustrates The Maze by Maurice Sandoz and the dust jacket for an anthology on
demonology entitled Speak of the Devil. Paints Basket of Bread.

1946: Dal works with Walt Disney on an animated film project called Destino, but
never realized, with several cartoons made. Designs dream sequences for Alfred
Hitchcocks movie Spellbound, and illustrates Macbeth and Don Quixote.

1947: Cleveland Museum of Art organizes Dal retrospective in which eleven

paintings from the Morse Collection are exhibited.

1948: Writes, illustrates, and publishes Fifty Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship, a

pastiche of a Renaissance artists manual in the manner of Cennino Cennini, and is
engagingly illustrated with mock diagrams. Dal returns to Spain. Designs sets and
costumes for Shakespeares As You Like It at the Eliseo Theater in Rome.

1949: Designs productions by Peter Brook and Lucino Visconti. Paints Leda Atomica
and his first large-sized canvas, Madonna of Port Lligat, measuring 12 by 8 feet, for
a new series of "classical and religious" artworks.

1950: Exhibits The Temptation of St. Anthony at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh.

1951: Dal writes Manifeste Mystique to explain his nuclear mysticism. Paints Christ
of St. John on the Cross.

1952: Dal and Gala, accompanied by the Morses, travel to Iowa, Missouri, Texas,
and Florida, where Dal gives a series of lectures on nuclear mysticism in his art.
Exhibits Assumpta Corpuscularia Lapislazulina at the Julien Levy Gallery in New
York.

1953: Writes a scenario for The Flesh Wheelbarrow at the Del Monte Lodge in
California. The film was never made. Delivers a triumphant lecture on the
phenomenological aspects of the paranoiac-critical method at the Paris Sarbone.

1954: Dal works with Robert Descharnes on a still-unfinished film entitled The
Prodigious Story of the Lacemaker and the Rhinoceros. Holds exhibits in Rome,
Venice, and Milan, where he shows, among other works, 102 watercolors illustrating
Dantes Divine Comedy. Publishes Dals Moustache with photographer Philippe
Halsman.

1956: The Sacrament of the Last Supper is exhibited at the National Gallery in
Washington, DC on loan from the Chester Dale Collection. A large retrospective
exhibition opens at Knokke-le-Zoute in Belgium. Dal writes the treatise Dal on
Modern Art.

1957: Commissioned by the French publisher Joseph Foret to produce fifteen

lithographs to illustrate Don Quixote.

1958: Dal and Gala are married in a religious ceremony at la Capella de la Mare de
Deu dels Angels in Girona, Spain. The New York Graphic Society publishes the first
monograph on Dals art, written by Mr. A. Reynolds Morse. In May, Dal presents a
fifteen-meter loaf of bread at a happening at the Thtre de lEtoile, Paris.

1959: Finishes painting The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, the first
in a series of monumental canvases depicting historical and Spanish myths. In Paris,
Dal presents his ovocipde that he had invented.

1960: Ecumenical Council exhibited at Carstairs Gallery in New York.

1961: Dal writes the story and designs sets and costumes for Ballet de Gala,
premiered at the Teatro Fenice in Venice, with choreography by Maurice Bjart. Dal
gives his first lecture at the cole Polytechnique on the myth of Castor and Pollux.

1962: Robert Descharnes publishes Dal de Gala. Dal exhibits The Battle of Tetuan
beside a canvas on the same subject by Fortuny in the Palacio Tinell in Barcelona.

1963: Dal paints Portrait of My Dead Brother, which anticipates Pop Art. Knoedler
Gallery in New York exhibits Dals numerous works. Dal publishes The Tragic Myth
of Millets Angelus, a manuscript in French that had been lost for 22 years.

1964: Dal awarded one of Spains highest decorations, the Grand Cross of Isabella
the Catholic. Publishes The Diary of a Genius, a sequel to his autobiography. An
important retrospective show opens in the Seibu Museum in Tokyo.

1965: The Gallery of Modern Art at Columbus Circle in New York holds a major
retrospective exhibition of 370 works, which includes the entire Morse Collection.
Dal paints The Apotheosis of the Dollar and publishes Open Letter to Salvador Dal.
Produces a series of illustrations for a new edition of the Bible. Creates the first
important sculpture, Bust of Dante.

1966: Dal designs the First Day Cover for the twentieth anniversary of the World
Federation of United Nations Association.

1967: Completes Tuna Fishing for presentation at the Hotel Meurice in Paris. Rizzoli
publishes The Dal Bible. Jean-Christophe Averty makes a film with Dal called A Soft
Self-Portrait.

1968: Dal publishes a pamphlet entitled My Cultural Revolution, which is distributed

to the rioting students at the Sorbonne in Paris, while Dal flees to Port Lligat.

1970: Dal finishes The Hallucinogenic Toreador. An important European

retrospective opens at the Boymans-van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam.

1971: The Morses open their Dal collection to the public in a wing of their office
building. Dal comes to Cleveland for the official opening on March 7. Designs an
issue of Vogue.

1972: Knoedler Gallery in New York exhibits Dals holograms.

1973: Hello Dal, a documentary, is filmed in Port Lligat by the British Broadcasting
Company.

1974: Teatro Museo Dal is inaugurated in Figueres, Spain.

1975: The film made by Dal on tape, Impressions from Upper Mognolia (Homage to
Raymond Roussel), is produced by German television.

1976: Starts working on stereoscopic installations. The Unspeakable Confessions of

Salvador Dal is published in English.

1978: Exhibits first hyper-stereoscopic painting, Dal Lifting the Skin of the
Mediterranean Sea to Show Gala the Birth of Venus, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum in New York. Dal discovers Ren Thoms work on mathematical
catastrophe theory.

1979: Dal inducted into Frances prestigious Acadmie Franaise des Beaux-Arts. A
large retrospective at the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris.

1980: The Tate Gallery in London holds a slightly smaller version of the massive
Pompidou retrospective.

1981: Dals "Art in Jewels" (the Catherwood and Cheatham collections) sold to
Japanese investors for $3.9 million.

1982: Inauguration of the Salvador Dal Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida,

exhibiting works from the Morse Collection. Gala dies on June 10 at the Pbol Castle.
A title of Marqus de Dal de Pbol conferred by Spains King Juan Carlos for the
artists exceptional contribution to Spanish culture. From now on Dal lives at the
castle at Pbol, which he had given to Gala.

1983: Creation of the perfume "Dal." The first major Spanish exhibition "Four
Hundred Works of Salvador Dal, 1914-1983" is shown in Madrid and Barcelona. In
May, Dal paints his last picture, The Swallowtail.

1984: The Gala-Salvador Dal Foundation is established in Figueres. Dal suffers

severe burns in a bedroom fire at his castle in Pbol, for which he undergoes

surgery. Afterward, goes into total seclusion in an apartment in the Torre Galatea,
adjacent to his museum in Figueres. Robert Descharnes publishes a study of Dal.

1985: Dal joins a campaign to make Barcelona the site of the 1992 Olympic Games.
He gives reproduction rights of The Cosmic Athlete for use on a promotional poster.
Dal denies rumors of being held captive in the Torre Galatea. Dal appears on
television for the first time in six years to announce a recent donation of works to
the Teatro Museo Dal in Figueres. Madrid official announces that Dal has agreed to
design a plaza for the city, costing $1.5 million, which will include a huge dolmen.

1986: The Salvador Dal Museum in Florida exhibits the first public showing of Dals
forty-eight sculptures donated to the Museum by Isidro Clot. New York Grand Jury
indicts seven people for misrepresentation of reproductions as Dal "lithographs."
Dal receives a pacemaker after suffering heart failure. Madrid unveils the square
designed by Dal, consisting of his sculpture Homage to Newton. Weighing one ton,
it is a salute to gravity. Facing it is a dolmen of granite propped up on three cement
legs. Shelby Fine Arts Gallery owners in Albuquerque, New Mexico, indicted on
fourteen counts of alleging fraud, criminal conspiracy, and criminal solicitation in
regard to sale of Dals graphics. Dal allows photographer Helmut Newton from
Vanity Fair magazine to photograph him in a satin gown. He wears the Grad Cross of
Isabella the Catholic and displays the tube in his nose, through which he has been
fed for over four years due to a psychological problem with swallowing.

1987: Dal in extreme depression. Manhattan couple convicted in state Supreme

Court on charges of selling spurious Dal lithographs as "art investments." A
Japanese group representing a Tokyo museum purchases Lincoln in Dalvision for
$2.3 million. The work is loaned for two years to the Salvador Dal Museum in
Florida. Dals former secretary, Captain Peter Moore, announces the donation of
three hundred paintings to Spain. Shelby Fine Arts Gallery owners are convicted
after pleading guilty in art-fraud case concerning Dal graphics. Battle of Tetuan
brings $2.4 million at an auction; sold to Japanese investors.

1988: Dal donates the painting The Birth of a Goddess to Jordi Pujol, President of
the Catalan government. The first exhibition in the Soviet Union in Moscow at the
Pushkin Museum of Art, featuring two hundred graphic works from the French
collector and publisher Pierre Argillet.

1989: Dal dies of heart failure on January 23 in Figueres and is buried in a crypt in
the Teatro Museo, as he had willed. In his will he leaves his entire fortune and works
to the Spanish state, with the works to be divided by Madrid and Figueres. Dals
sister, Ana Mara, dies in Cadaqus on May 17. Major retrospective of 350 Dal works
exhibited in Stuttgart, Zrich, and Humlebaek.

1990: An exhibition of over a hundred Dal works opens at the Montreal Museum of
Fine Arts. Dal exploiters William Mett and Marvin Wiseman of the Center Art Gallery
in Honolulu are found guilty in a federal court for misrepresentation of Dal prints
and art fraud. The worlds largest art-scam trial runs for five months before the
defendants are found guilty of seventy-three of seventy-nine charges.

1991: "The Dal Adventure," featuring recollections by A. Reynolds and Eleanor

Morse, is released.

1992: Mrs. Edwin Bergman donates collections of seventy-seven surrealist paintings

to the Art Institute in Chicago, featuring three Dal works. The Olympic Games in
Barcelona renew interest in Dals Catalonia. Meredith Etherington-Smith publishes a
biography of Dal in London. Lee Catterall publishes The Great Dal Art Fraud,
detailing the history of fraudulent Dal graphics market.

1993: Dals 1951 painting Christ of St. John on the Cross is moved from the
Glasgow Museum of Art to be the centerpiece in Glasgows newly opened St. Mungo
Museum of Religious Life and Art. "Dals Dals," an exhibition of works by Dal from
his own collection, opens in Seville.