Joanne Rowling Life Timeline

Joanne Rowling Life Timeline

1965
-July 31- Jo was born in Yate, Gloucestershire, England.

1967
-June 28- Her sister Di was born.

1970
-Her and her family moved to Winterbourne, England.

1974
-Her and her family moved to Tutshill, South Wales.
-Her favorite grandmother Kathleen died.

1976
- Attended Wyedean School and College (secondary school) where she met Sean Harris (whom Chamber of Secrets is dedicated to and to whom owned a Ford Anglia).

1980
-Anne Rowling (Jo's mother) was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

1983
-Attended the University of Exeter where she studied French.

1990
-Moved from London to Manchester with her boyfriend at the time.
-After flat hunting in Manchester, she was on a delayed train back to London when the idea of Harry Potter fell into her head. She started to write the first draft of Philosophers stone that night.
-December 30- Her mother died after a 10 year battle with multiple sclerosis

1991
-September or October- Left England and moved to Porto, Portugal where she got a job teaching English. In the first few weeks in Portugal she wrote The Mirror of Erised, a chapter in Philosophers Stone.

1992
-October 16- Married Portuguese television journalist Jorge Arantes.

1993
-July 27- Her first daughter Jessica Isabel Rowling Arantes was born.
-September 3- Jo's sister Di married Roger Moore.
-November- Jo and her husband separated.

1994
-December- Her and her daughter Jessica moved to be nearer her sister in Edinburgh, Scotland, where she completed her first novel.

1995
-June 26- Her divorce became final
-Christopher Little Literary Agents agreed to represent Jo in the search for a publisher. The book was rejected by 12 publishing companies.

1996
-August- Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone was set to be published by Bloomsbury, after the chairman of the company's daughter liked the book.

1997
-Spring- An auction was held to buy Philosopher's Stone in the US and was sold to Scholastic, Inc. for $105, 000.
-June 26- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was published by Bloomsbury with an initial run of 1,000 (500 of which went to libraries).
-November- Philosopher's Stone won its first award, a Nestlé Smarties Book Prize.

1998
-February- Philosopher's Stone won the British Book Award for Children’s Book of the Year and later Children's Book Award.
-July 2- The second book in the series, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, was published.
-September 1- Scholastic published Philosopher's Stone under the title Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
-October- Warner Brothers purchased the rights to the first two Harry Potter books to make into films.

1999
-July 8- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (book 3) was published.
-December- Prisoner of Azkaban won the Smarties Prize, making Jo the first person to win the award three times running.

2000
-January- Prisoner of Azkaban won the Whitbread Children’s Book of the Year award.
-June- Queen Elizabeth II made Rowling an officer of the Order of the British Empire.
-July- The University of Exeter awarded her with an honorary DLitt degree.
-July 8- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (book 4) was released.

2001
-Jo published two books for charity- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Quidditch Through the Ages.
-Jo purchased the Killiechassie House in Perth and Kinross, Scotland.
-December 26- Jo married Neil Michael Murray in a ceremony at her home.

2003
-March 24- Jo and Neil's son David Gordon Rowling Murray was born.
-June 21- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (book 5) was released.

2005
-January 23- Jo and Neil's daughter Mackenzie Jean Rowling Murray was born.
-July 16- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was released.

2006
-April- An asteroid was named Rowling after her.
-May- A newly found kind of Dinosaur was named Dracorex hogwartsia in her honor.
-June- Was named “the greatest living British writer” in a poll by The Book Magazine.
-July- She received a Doctor of Laws (LLD) honorary degree from the University of Aberdeen for her "significant contribution to many charitable causes" and "her many contributions to society".
-Jo revealed that she had written a few short stories and another children's book.
-Forbes named her the second-richest female entertainer in the world.
-December 21- The title of the 7th Harry Potter book, Deathly Hallows, was released on JKRowling.com.

2007 -January 11- Jo finished writing Deathly in her hotel room at the Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh.
-May- Jo donated $495,000 to a fund to help find Madeleine McCann, a British girl who was kidnapped in Portugal.
-July 20- Jo was presented a a Gold Blue Peter Badge, the highest award given by the tv show Blue Peter.
-July 21- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the final Harry Potter book, was released and became the fastest-selling book of all time.
-July 26- Jo said she is currently writing two things, one for children and one for adults.
-She was said to have $1 billion or £545 million by Sunday Times Rich List.
-Forbes has her as the forty-eighth most powerful celebrity of 2007.

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