1879 – Christian Webb Welty born.

1883 – Chestina Andrews Welty born.

1904 – Christian Webb Welty and Chestina Andrews Welty marry.

1907 – The Weltys’ son Christian Welty dies at age 15 months.

April 13, 1909 – Eudora born in Jackson, Mississippi, at 741 N. Congress Street.

1912 – Brother Edward Welty born.

1915 – Brother Walter Welty born.

1924 – A sister is stillborn.

1925 – Graduates from Jackson’s Central High School

1925-27 – Attends Mississippi State College for Women, Columbus, Mississippi

1927-29 – Attends and graduates from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin

1930-31 – Attends Columbia University School of Business

1931 – Christian Webb Welty, Eudora Welty’s father, dies.

1931-34 – Eudora works in Jackson at WJDX radio station.

1933-35 – Eudora writes Jackson society columns for the Memphis Commercial-Appeal.

1936 – Eudora publishes her first stories, “Death of a Traveling Salesman” and “Magic,” in Manuscript magazine, has a one-woman photographic exhibit in New York City, and works for the Works Progress Administration.

1937 — Eudora has a second photographic exhibit in New York city and travels to Mexico with three Jackson friends.

1937-39 – Eudora publishes ten stories in the Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, River.

1939 – Eudora works for the Mississippi Advertising Commission.

1940 – Diarmuid Russell becomes Eudora Welty’s agent.

1941 – Eudora publishes stories in the Atlantic Monthly and Harper’s Bazaar. Her first book of stories, A Curtain of Green, is published.

1942 – The Robber Bridegroom

1943 – The Wide Net

1944 – Eudora works for several months as a copy editor and staff reviewer for the New York Times Book Review.

1946 – Delta Wedding

1946-47 – Eudora has two extended stays in San Francisco.

1949 – The Golden Apples

1949-50 – Eudora travels through Europe on a Guggenheim Fellowship.

1951 – Eudora spends a few months in England and Ireland.

1952 – Elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters.

1954 – Eudora lectures at Cambridge University in England and publishes The Ponder Heart.

1955 – The Bride of the Innisfallen; Eudora receives Howell’s Medal from Academy of Arts and Letters.

1956 – Jerome Chodorov’s and Joseph Fields’s dramatization of The Ponder Heart runs on Broadway.

1959 – Eudora’s brother Walter dies.

1963 – Eudora publishes “Where is the Voice Coming From?” in The New Yorker.

1966 – Eudora’s mother Chestina and her brother Edward die.

1966 – “The Demonstrators” appears in The New Yorker.

1969 – “The Optimist’s Daughter” appears in The New Yorker.

1970 – Eudora publishes Losing Battles, a novel begun in 1955.

1971 – Eudora’s book of photographs, One Time, One Place, is published, and she is elected to American Academy of Arts and Letters.

1972 – The Optimist’s Daughter in revised and expanded form is published, and Eudora receives the Gold Medal for Fiction from the National Institute of Arts and Letters.

1973 – The Optimist’s Daughter receives a Pulitzer Prize.

1974 – Eudora travels through Italy and France.

1976 – Alfred Uhry’s dramatization of The Robber Bridegroom runs on Broadway.

1978 – The Eye of the Story

1979 – Artist-in-residence, British Studies Program, Associated Colleges of the South, held at Oxford University

1980 – The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty; Eudora receives Presidential Medal of Freedom

1983 – Eudora delivers the William E. Massey, Sr., Lectures in the History of American Civilization at Harvard University.

1984 – One Writer’s Beginnings; Eudora travels to England and Italy.

1986 – Eudora receives National Medal of the Arts.

1989 – Photographs

1990 – Travels to London

1991 – Norton Book of Friendship, co-edited with Ronald A. Sharp

1996 – Receives French Legion of Honor in ceremony held at the Old Capitol Museum in Jackson.

1998 – The Library of America publishes two volumes of Eudora’s fiction and non-fiction, making her the first living writer whose works have become part of this distinguished series.

2001 – Eudora Welty dies on July 23.