CHRONOLOGY


1857 --- Dec. 3. Conrad is born by the name Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski at Berdicow in Russian-occupied Poland.
1861 --- His father, who is a poet and translator, is arrested for patriotic conspiracy.
1862 --- May 8. His father is sentanced to penal exile in Siberia by the Czarist Russian government. He helped organize the secret Polish National Committee. Conrad's Mother petitions to go with him. They also take Conrad with them.
1865 --- April 11. Conrad's mother -Ewa (or Eveline) Brobrowski dies. Conrad's maternal uncle, Tadeusz takes responsability of Conrad.
1868 --- Both Conrad and his father are allowed to return from exile to Lemberg, Galicia.
1869 --- Both move to Cracow. May 23, Conrad's father dies in Krakow.
1870 --- Conrad's grandmother becomes his guardian. A tutor from University of Cracow is in charge of his education.
1874 --- October 15, Conrad leaves Poland for Marseilles. He becomes a tranee seaman with the French Merchant Navy in voyages to the West Indies and Central America.
1876 --- Conrad meets Dominic Cervoni when he is steward on the Sainte-Antoine. Dominic becomes the model for some of the characters in Conrad's books. For example Jean Peyrol in ROVER, Nostromo in NOSTROMO, Attilio in SUSPENSE. Dominic's name appears in Conrad's memoir: THE MIRROR OF THE SEA, and in the novel THE ARROW OF GOLD.
1878 --- Conrad tries to shoot himself in the chest in Marseilles possibly he is in dept. He is not seriously injured. On June 18 he joins the Mavis, the Brittish when is docks at Lowestoft. July 18, joins the The Skimmer of the Sea. Works in the Brittish Maritme service until 1894.
1883 --- He is shipwrecked.
1884 --- He qualifies as first mate.
1886 --- Travels to Australia, Mederterranian, India, Singapor, Java, Borneo, Sumatra, Thailand and Mauritius.
1886 --- Becomes British citizen. Nov. 11, passes the examination for his "Certificate of competency as Master" in Meritme service. Writes "The Black Mate" for submission to a magazine competition.
1887 --- Conrad is injured on the Highland Forest and is hospitalized in Singapore.
1889 --- Begins to write ALMAYER'S FOLLY
1890 --- Travels to Africa with French steamer, Commands Roi des Belges, a small river steamer, on the Congo river near Stanley falls.
1894 --- Death of his uncle, ALMAYER'S FOLLY accepted by Unwin.
1895 --- ALMAYER'S FOLLY published.
1896 --- Marries Jessie George.
1897 --- The Nigger of the Narcissus published. Begins association with Blackwod's magazine.
1898 --- Conrad publishes more of his work. His son, Borys Conrad, is born. the family moves to Kent.
1898-9 --- HEART OF DARKNESS serialized in Blackwood's.
1901 --- Begins romance with Ford Madox Ford. Ends his association with Blackwood's.
1903-4 --- Writes Nostromo at Pent farm in Kent.
1904 --- Jessie Conrad injured her knees and is partially disabled for life.
1906 --- Conrad's second son, John Alexander, is born in London.
1910 --- Conrad has breakdown after completing Under Western Eyes .
1914 --- Conrad becomes a highly profitable author. Revisites Poland.
1916 --- Poland revisited in The Book of the Homeless.
1923 --- Conrad gives reading in the United States.
1924 --- Conrad declines offer of knighthood, and dies in May of a heart attack; he is buried in Canterbury.


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