1894
26 July: Huxley born Godalming, Surrey.
1901
Huxley family leave ‘Laleham’, the house at Godalming for Prior’s Field nearby where Huxley’s mother, Julia, opens a school the following year.
1903
Huxley goes to Hillside Preparatory School (to June 1908).
1908
Huxley goes to Eton in September as King’s Scholar; his mother dies, 29 November.
1909
Huxley’s father, Leonard, moves to Westbourne Square, London.
1911
Huxley forced to leave Eton in March because of an eye infection; tutored at home; stays with various relatives; nearly blind for at least a year; learns Braille.
1912
Leonard Huxley remarries to Rosalind Bruce; Huxley possibly writes first (lost) novel; travels to Marburg, Germany.
1913
Stays with brother, Trevenen, at Oxford; visits Grenoble with Lewis Gielgud; enters Balliol College, Oxford in October.
1914
Suicide of Trevenen, 23 August; October lodges with Haldanes in Oxford for second year.
1915
First visit to Garsington, 29 November; first meeting in same month with D.H. Lawrence in Hampstead; meets future wife, Maria Nys, at Garsington in December or early the following year.
1916
Rejected on health grounds by Army; helps to found Palatine Review; gains First in English; July and August temporary master at Repton School; September first book published, The Burning Wheel (poems); September goes to stay at Garsington for next seven months working on Philip Morrell’s farm; proposes to Maria on lawn at Garsington during late summer or autumn.
1917
April to July clerical job at Air Board; living with father and stepmother at 16 Bracknell Gardens, Hampstead; 18 September takes up post as master at Eton (until Feburary 1919); December, Jonah.
1918
The Defeat of Youth (third book of poems), August; at work on first piece of fiction, ‘The Farcical History of Richard Greenow’
1919
Leaves Eton in April and visits Maria Nys (after a separation of more than two years) at her parents’ home in Belgium; officially engaged; April starts work on The Athenaeum magazine (until October 1920); May moves into 18 Hampstead Hill Gardens, London; 10 July marries Maria at Bellem in Belgium.
1920
February first volume of short stories, Limbo; April, Matthew born; dramatic critic of Westminster Gazette; May, Leda published; part-time job with Chelsea Book Club; October moves from Athenaeum to House and Garden; December leaves Hampstead flat; Maria and Matthew go to Belgium for winter.
1921
January to March lodges Regent Square, Bloomsbury; begins to see Mary Hutchinson; April rejoins Maria at Villa Minucci, Florence; May to August writes first novel on Tuscan coast at Forte dei Marmi, Crome Yellow (published November); October returns to London to flat at 155 Westbourne Terrace (to December 1922) working again for Condé Nast.
1922
May, Mortal Coils; August to September holiday at Forte in Villa Tacchella.
1923
January, move to flat at 44 Prince’s Gardens, London; signs first three-year publishing deal with Chatto; May, On The Margin; June to July, summer in Forte dei Marmi, writes Antic Hay (published November); August moves to Florence, Castel a Montici (to June 1925).
1924
May, Little Mexican and The Discovery; travels in France and Italy; writing Those Barren Leaves.
1925
January, Those Barren Leaves; March to April travels in Tunisia; July, London; August Belgium; September, Along The Road; 15 September Huxleys sail from Genoa (leaving Matthew for eleven months) on a round-the-world-trip beginning in India, then south-east Asia, United States until June 1926.
1926
May, Two or Three Graces; July, London; August, St Trond, Belgium;
August to December, Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy; renews acquaintance there with D.H. Lawrence; December, Essays New and Old.
1927
January and February, Cortina; starts Point Counter Point; March to May, London and Belgium; May to December, Forte at Villa Majetta; November, Proper Studies; December, spends Christmas with D.H. and Frieda Lawrence in Florence.
1928
January to February, Les Diablerets, Switzerland; March to May, Onslow Mews, London; June takes house (until April 1930) at 3 Rue du Bac, Suresnes, Paris (but not in full residence until October, spending summer in Forte); November, Point Counter Point.
1929
January, Bandol with Lawrence; February, Florence; April, Spain; May, Arabia Infelix; in London; June to September, final summer at Forte; August, Apuan mountains; September, Suresnes; October, Do What You Will; October to November, motor tour of Spain.
1930
London production of This Way to Paradise at Daly’s Theatre; March, with Lawrence on his deathbed at Vence; April move in to Villa at La Gorguette, Sanary-sur-Mer until February 1937; May, Brief Candles; September to October, London, Paris, Berlin, Nottingham; November, Vulgarity in Literature.
1931
January to March, London, Dalmeny Court, Duke Street; March The World of Light at Royalty Theatre; May, The Cicadas; May to August at Sanary, writing Brave New World; September, Music at Night; October to December, London.
1932
February, Brave New World; May to June, Belgium, Germany; June to December at Sanary writes play Now More Than Ever (finished in October); September, The Letters of D.H. Lawrence edited by Huxley;
November, Texts and Pretexts; starts Eyeless in Gaza; December, London.
1933
January to May, travels in West Indies, Guatemala, Mexico; 3 May Leonard Huxley dies; June to December at Sanary; November, travels in Spain.
1934
April, Beyond the Mexique Bay; at work on Eyeless in Gaza; October to December in London at 18 St Alban’s Place, Regent Street; December, takes out seven year lease on flat at E2, Albany, Piccadilly whilst retaining Sanary; Huxley in poor physical and mental health; beginning of crucial turn in his life.
1935
January to March, Albany (with visits to Paris); March to October at Sanary working on Eyeless in Gaza; October to December at Albany, taking lessons with F.M. Alexander; November joins Dick Sheppard’s Peace Pledge Union; 3 December gives address on pacifism at Friend’s House, London.
1936
January to March at Albany active in PPU; March finishes Eyeless in Gaza; April to September, Sanary; April, What Are You Going to Do About It?; June, Eyeless in Gaza; October to November, London; December, The Olive Tree; at Sanary.
1937
19 February finally leaves Sanary; 7 April Huxleys sail with Gerald Heard for New York; five week journey across states by car to San Cristobal, Taos, New Mexico, to stay the summer with Frieda Lawrence at her ranch; July, An Encyclopaedia of Pacifism; October to November, Colorado and Hollywood (North Crescent Heights Boulevard); November, Ends and Means; November to December, Huxley and Heard lecture on peace; December, Maria at Rhinebeck NY where Huxley joins her.
1938
February studio accepts screenplay so cancels plans to return to Europe; takes house at North Laurel Avenue, LA; Huxley in hospital with bronchitis for weeks; April begins never to be completed novel; July house at North Linden Drive, Beverly Hills; August to September works on script about Madame Curie at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; November, explores the Bates method of improving eyesight.
1939
February to July working on After Many A Summer; April move to 701 Amalfi Drive, Pacific Palisades (to February 1942); summer first meeting with Christopher Isherwood; August works on screenplay of Pride and Prejudice; October, After Many A Summer.
1940
August, after earlier ill-health, begins work on Grey Eminence.
1941
May finishes Grey Eminence (published October); works on screenplay of Jane Eyre; starts on Time Must Have A Stop.
1942
February, Huxleys move to desert house at Llano del Rio; at work on Jane Eyre; April starts The Art of Seeing (published October).
1943
Resumes work on novel; July stays with Gerald Heard at Trabuco College; October, Huxleys take a flat at South Doheny Drive, Beverly Hills in addition to Llano (to 1945).
1944
February finishes Time Must Have A Stop (published August); May starts The Perennial Philosophy.
1945
March, finishes Perennial Philosophy (published September); June buys mountain chalet in Wrightwood, California; writing Science, Liberty and Peace; November to December works with Walt Disney on Alice and Wonderland.
1946
Spending most of time at Llano in Mojave Desert; March Science, Liberty and Peace; July to October at work on script of The Gioconda Smile for Universal; September, at work on stage version of same story.
1947
Finally abandons Llano for Wrightwood; March starts historical novel on Catherine of Siena which is never completed; September leaves California for first time since 1938 by car for New York; November to December returned from New York to write Ape and Essence.
1948
February The Gioconda Smile published as play in US as Mortal Coils, released as film with title A Woman’s Vengeance; 3 June, stage version of Gioconda Smile opens in London for nine month run; 24 June, Huxleys sail for Europe (not seen since 1937) from New York; Paris, Siena, Rome, London; August, Ape and Essence; October return to New York; November to December in Palm Desert on doctor’s orders; at work on stage version of Ape and Essence.
1949
February Paris stage version of Gioconda Smile; May buy house at 740 North King’s Road, Los Angeles (but May to September at Wrightwood).
1950
April, Themes and Variations; Matthew marries Ellen Howde in New York; May sails on Queen Mary to France; Paris, Rome, Siena, London, Villa Rustique at Sanary; Paris; September, returns to New York; October, New York production of Gioconda Smile; visits Frieda Lawrence on way back to LA; November to December, starts work on The Devils of Loudun.
1951
March, virus infection followed in July by severe attack of iritis.
1952
January, Maria seriously ill, has treatment for breast cancer; October, The Devils of Loudun.
1953
May, first mescalin experience with Dr Humphry Osmond; June tour through northwestern states followed by work on The Doors of Perception.
1954
February, The Doors of Perception; 7 April, sails to Cherbourg; attends parapyscholocy conference, Vence; then Paris, Ismailia, Cairo, Jerusalem, Beirut, Cyprus, Athens, Rome, Paris, London; 21 August sails for New York; 7 September, returns to Los Angeles; October, lecturing, finishes The Genius and The Goddess; November, collaborates with Beth Wendell on stage version of The Genius and the Goddess.
1955
12 February, Maria dies; April to May drives by car to New York via Southern states; May to June at 1035 Park Avenue, New York working on stage production of The Genius and the Goddess; novel appears June; July to August, summer with Matthew at Guilford, Connecticut; September to December back in Los Angeles
1956
February, Heaven and Hell; 19 March, marries Laura Archera at Yuma, Arizona; July, couple move to 3276 Deronda Drive, Los Angeles; starts work on Island (not published until 1961); October, Adonis and the Alphabet.
1957
July to November, at Shoreham Hotel, New York working on stage version of The Genius and The Goddess; December, begins Brave New World Revisited.
1958
July to August, travels in Peru and Brazil; September, Italy; October, London, Paris, Venice; October, Brave New World Revisited;
November, lectures at Turin and other Italian cities; December, returns to Los Angeles.
1959
February to May, first course of lectures at Santa Barbara on ‘The Human Situation’; July, serious fall; September to December, second series of lectures at Santa Barbara.
1960
March to April, Visiting Professor at Menninger Foundation, Kansas; May, cancer diagnosed; June, radium treatment; September to November, Visiting Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
1961
January, visits Hawaii; February, control of the mind conference, San Francisco; 12 May, Deronda Drive house destroyed by fire; June, finishes Island, visits London; July at Vence; August, Switzerland, Copenhagen; September, returns to Los Angeles to stay at 6233 Mulholland Highway; November India, Japan.
1962
February to May, Visiting Professor at Berkeley; March, Island, conference at Santa Barbara on technology in the modern world; April to May, addresses further conferences in the US; June, illness recurs, The Genius and the Goddess performed in England; July minor operation; August to September, Brussels for meeting of World Academy of Arts and Sciences; September, London; November, lectures in Mid West.
1963
March, at Rome conference of UN Food and Agricultural Organisation; March to April, lecturing at US universities; April to May, another relapse; August, Stockholm for meeting of World Academy of Arts and Sciences, London, Dartington, Italy; September, Literature and Science (his last book); 22 November, dies in Los Angeles; 17 December, Memorial Service, Friends House, London.