1903
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Eric Arthur Blair born at Motihari, Bengal, India.
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1904
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Brought to England by his mother, settles in Henley-on Thames, Oxfordshire.
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1912
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Father, Richard Blair, retires from Indian Civil Service and returns to England.
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1917 - 1921
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Attends Eton college.
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1922
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Attends classes to prepare for India Office examinations.
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1922 - 1927
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Serves as Assistant Superintendent of Police in the Indian Imperial Police, Burma.
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1928 - 1929
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Lives in Paris, writing.
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1930 - 1931
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Travels in England. Early essays published under his own name.
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1933 - 1934
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Teaches in English private schools, publishes Down and Out in Paris and London under the pseudonym "George Orwell."
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1934 - 1935
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Works part time in a London bookstore.
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1936
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Lives in industrial north of England, investigating working class life and unemployment.
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1937
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Injured while serving in militia in Spain.
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1938
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Checks into a tuberculosis sanatorium in England. Joins the Independent Labor Party.
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1941 - 1943
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Living in London works as a producer for BBC radio programming for broadcast to India and Southeast Asia.
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1943 - 1946
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Literary editor for the Tribune.
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1945
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War correspondent for the Observer in Paris and Cologne. Animal Farm published.
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1947
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Hospitalized again for tuberculosis.
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1949
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1984 published.
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1950
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Dies suddenly from complications related to tuberculosis.
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Source:
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Averil Gardener. George Orwell. Boston: Twain Publishers, 1987.
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