1881 October 15: Birth of Pelham Grenville Wodehouse at 1 Vale Place, Guildford, Surrey
1894: PGW first attends Dulwich College, London
1900: Receives his first payment for writing: from Public School Magazine for an article entitled ‘Some Aspects
of Game-Captaincy’
1900 September: Starts work at the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, London
1901 July: First real short story published in Public School Magazine, entitled ‘The Prize Poem’
1901 August 16: First contribution to Globe newspaper
1902 September 9: Resigns from the HS Bank
1902 September 17: First article for Punch magazine, entitled ‘An Unfinished Collection’
1904 April 16: First visit to the USA
1904 August: Appointed Editor of the ‘By The Way’ column at the Globe
1904 December 10: First published lyric, ‘Put Me In My Little Cell’, sung
in Sergeant Brue at the Strand Theatre, London
1906 March 6: Employed by Seymour Hicks as the resident lyricist at
the Aldwych Theatre
1906 March 19: First meets future collaborator Jerome Kern
1906 August: First novel for adults, Love Among the Chickens, published
1907 December 6: Joins Gaiety Theatre as lyricist
1909: Second visit to USA, where he sells short stories
to Collier’s and Cosmopolitan
1911 August 24: First play, A Gentleman of Leisure, opens in New York
1913 April 8: First play in London, Brother Alfred, flops
1914 August 2: Returns to New York
1914 August 3: Meets Ethel Rowley, née Newton, an English widow,
at a New York party
1914 September 30: Marries Ethel Rowley and inherits her daughter Leonora
1915 March: Appointed drama critic of [US] Vanity Fair
1915 June 26: First appearance of Lord Emsworth and Blandings Castle in the serialisation of Something New (Something Fresh is
U.K. title) in Saturday Evening Post
1915 September 18: Jeeves makes his first appearance, in the story ‘Extricating Young Gussie’ published in Saturday Evening Post
1916 September 25: First Bolton, Wodehouse & Kern musical comedy, Miss Springtime debuts in New York and is moderately successful
1919 June 7: First Oldest Member story, ‘A Woman is Only a Woman’, published in Saturday Evening Post
1923 April: First Ukridge short story, ‘Ukridge’s Dog College’, appears in Cosmopolitan
1926: PGW elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
1926 July: First Mr Mulliner story, ‘The Truth About George’, appears in Strand magazine
1930 June 1: Starts first contract with MGM in Hollywood
1933 August: First instalment of the first Jeeves and Bertie Wooster novel, Thank You, Jeeves, published in Strand
1934 January 19: Successfully challenges in court the U.K. Inland Revenue’s attempts to claim more income tax on his earnings
1934 June: Settles in Le Touquet, France
1935 June 3: Buys Low Wood in Le Touquet
1936 June 26: Awarded medallion by International Mark Twain Society
1939 June 2: Invested as D. Litt at Oxford University
1939 September 3: Britain declares war on Germany
1940 May 21: PGW, Ethel and animals try to leave Le Touquet in the light of the German advance, but their car twice breaks down
1940 July 21: Start of PGW internment by Germans in camps successively at Loos Prison (Lille), Liege, Huy
and Tost (Upper Silesia)
1941 June 21: PGW released from internment and taken to Berlin
1941 June 26: PGW makes the first of five radio broadcasts
for fans in neutral USA
1941 July 15: ‘Cassandra’s’ BBC radio broadcast of a vituperative attack on PGW, calling him a traitor
1943 September 11: PGW transferred to Paris
1944 May 16: Death of PGW’s step-daughter Leonora
1947 April 27: PGW and Ethel arrive in US on SS America
1952 March: Ethel buys a house in Basket Neck Lane, Remsenburg, Long Island, New York, close to Guy Bolton’s home
1955 December 16: PGW becomes an American citizen
1960 January 27: PGW elected to the Punch table
1961 July 15: BBC broadcasts ‘An Act of Homage and Reparation’
by Evelyn Waugh
1965 May 27: BBC TV series The World of Wooster begins transmission
1967 February 16: BBC TV series Blandings Castle begins transmission
1974 November: PGW’s last complete novel, Aunts Aren’t Gentlemen, published in the U.K.
1975 January 1: PGW knighted by Queen Elizabeth II,
his wife Ethel taking the title Lady Wodehouse
1975 February 14: PGW dies in hospital
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