1903: Born in India

1911: Went to St Cyprian's School in Eastbound

1917: Won a scholarship to Eton

1921: Joined the British police in Burma

1927: Grew dissatisfied and resigned

1928: Journeyed to Paris

1932-1933: Worked as a teacher in a small private school

1933: First book was published Down and Out in Paris and              London

1934: Got a part time job in a second hand bookshop

1934: First novel Burmese Days was published

1935: Another novel published

1936: Married Eileen

1936: Write a book about poverty in northern England

1936: Socialist left for spin to fight in the Spanish Civil War

1937: The Road to Wigan Pier was published

1938: Wrote a Homage to Catalonia

1938: Suffering from tuberculosis

1938-1939: Spent the winter in Morocco

1939: Another novel was published

1941-1943: Worked for the BBC

1943: Literary editor for the Tribune a left wing                                 magazine

1945: great satire Animal Farm was published

1949: Masterpiece

1949: Married his second wife Sonia

1950: Died

1984: Masterpiece was published