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.