George Orwell is born in Motihari, Bengal. George Orwell is not his real name. He is born as Eric Arthur Blair.
George Orwell and his mother return to England and settle in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.
Richard Blair, Orwell’s father, returns to England.
At the age of 11, Orwell publishes his first work, a poem called Awake Young Men of England.
Orwell attends Eton College, one of the finest colleges in England.
Orwell works as an Assistant Superintendent of Police in Burma
Orwell lives in Paris where he writes. However, he is not known yet and has to take odd jobs such as dishwashing.
Orwell publishes his first book Down and Out in Paris and London using the pin name George Orwell for the first time.
Burmese Days is first published in the US (1934) and then in the UK (1935). In 1934 Orwell moves to Hampstead, London and meets Eileen O'Shaughnessy at the age of 30. They marry in 1936.
Goes to Spain to fight fascism and Franco in the Spanish Civil War.
