| 7 November 1913 | Birth of Albert Camus in Mondovi (French Algeria). |
| 1914–18 | First World War. |
| 1914 | Death of Camus’s father from wounds received at the Battle of the Marne. |
| 1924–31 | Attends secondary school in Algiers on a scholarship. |
| 1930 | Celebrations of the centennial of France’s occupation of Algeria. First attack of tuberculosis. |
| 1931 | Meets professor and mentor Jean Grenier. |
| 1932 | Pursues studies at university in Algiers. |
| 1934 | Marriage to Simone Hié. They would split up two years later; divorce finalized in 1940. |
| 1935 | Joins the Communist Party. |
| 1936–9 | Spanish Civil War. |
| 1936 | Gets involved in theatre as a director and actor. Co-authors the play Revolt in Asturias. Finishes his master’s thesis on Plotinus. |
| 1937 | Publication of Betwixt and Between in Algiers. Leaves the Communist Party. |
| 1939–45 | Second World War. |
| 1939 | Publishes series of articles titled ‘The Misery of Kabylia’. |
| 1940 | Pascal Pia and Camus’s newspaper suspended by French authorities. Returns to France to work for Parisian newspaper. Marries his second wife, Francine Faure. |
| 1942 | Publication of The Stranger and The Myth of Sisyphus in occupied Paris. Camus is recovering from TB in the mountains of France. Separated from his wife Francine who is still in Algiers. |
| 1943 | Joins the French resistance at the end of the year. |
| 1944–7 | Editorialist for Combat, France’s main resistance newspaper. |
| 1944 | Publication of his play Caligula. Meets lover and famous actress Maria Casarès on D-Day. |
| 1945 | Massacres of Algerians in the towns of Sétif and Guelma on VE Day. Condemns the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Birth of his twin children, Catherine and Jean. |
| 1947 | Publication of The Plague. |
| 1949 | Performance of his play The Just Assassins. |
| 1951 | Publication of The Rebel. |
| 1952 | Break with Jean-Paul Sartre. |
| 1954–62 | Algerian War of Independence. |
| 1956 | Camus proposes a ‘civil truce’ which is rejected by all parties to the Algerian conflict. Vows to no longer publicly intervene during this war. Publication of The Fall. Publicly condemns Soviet intervention in Hungary. |
| 1957 | Publication of The Exile and Kingdom. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. |
| 1958 | Publication of his articles on Algeria, ‘Algerian Chronicles’. |
| 1960 | Dies in a car accident with his publisher Michel Gallimard. |
| 1994 | Posthumous publication of The First Man. |
| 2009 | Proposal to transfer Camus’s remains to the Pantheon. |
| 2017 | Publication of his personal correspondence with Maria Casarès. |