CHRONOLOGY
1874
He was born in Kensington, London, England , 29 May.
1887
He entry to study at St. Paul´s School on January.
1893
He studied painting in Slade School of Art.
1896
He began working for the London publisher Redway until
1902.
1900
First two books were
collections of poetry; "The Wild Knight" and "Greybeards at Play".
1901
He married Frances Blogg.
1902
He was given a weekly opinion column in the Daily News.
1903
Biography of Robert Browning.
1904
"The Napoleon of Notting Hill".
1905
Biography of Charles Dickens. He wrote "Heretics".
1907
"The man who was Thursday".
1908
"Orthodoxy".
1911
He wrote "The Ballad of the White Horse",
"Lepanto" and one of the most important books, "Father Brown".
1918
His younger brother, Cecil, died and
Chesterton edited his brother´s the New Witness and his own G.K.
Weekly.
1922
His conversion to Roman Catholicism. He wrote "Eugenics
and other Evils".
1925
"The Everlasting Man".
He propounded his social and political views with "Takes of the Long
Bow".
1929
He wrote articles for the Encyclopaedia
Britannica, including the entry of Charles Dickens and part of the
entry of Humour. A collection of essays examined
his own conversion to Roman Catholicism called "The Thing".
1934
He was made
Knight Commander with the Star, order of St. Gregory the Great.
1936
Chesterton wrote his "Autobiography" and he
died at his home in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, 14 June.
This information is taken from http://kirjasto.sci.fi/gkchest
.htm and http://www.s
partacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jchesterton.htm . (December 2008)