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)