1898 – Birth On June 5th 1898, Federico Garcia Lorca was born in a small town in Spain, Fuente Vaqueros to a landowner and a teacher.
1914 – Lorca attended the University of Granada to study law.
1916 – Lorca was encouraged to pursue writing during his travels throughout Spain.
1918 – He published his first book, Impresiones y paisajes (Impressions and Landscapes).
1919 – Attended the University of Madrid, where he met friends, like painter Salvador Dali and filmmaker, Luis Bunuel.
During his studies in Madrid, Lorca took more interest in writing specifically theater and poems.
1921 – Lorca published his first book of poems, Libro de poemas, a collection of poems he has written since 1918.
In the 1920s, Lorca began to experiment with more avant garde style into his work. He became part of the influential group of artists that started the movement of surrealism in Spain. They were known as Generacion del 27.
1928 – Published another poetry collection, Romancero Gitano (Gypsy Ballads). This book helped him gain world wide recollection.
1929 – Lorca traveled to New York City and studied at Columbia University to take a break from balancing his complicated private life and his life as a successful poet.
1929 – Wall Street stock market crash.
1930 – Spain’s dictatorship of Primo de Rivera fell. The Second Spanish Republic, a democratic government was established.
1930 – Larco return to Spain and co-founded a traveling theater group, La Barraca, dedicated to introducing Spanish theater to the rural areas of the country. The group plays Spanish classics as well as plays Lorca wrote.
1933 – Larco wrote a well known play, The Blood Wedding.
1936 – The beginning of the Spanish Civil War. The war erupted due to growing tensions between the rich and the poor. Nationalists had right wing, conservative views and rebelled against the left – wing Spanish Republic.
1936 – Death On August 18, 1936, Lorca was shot along with three others by the Nationalist militia because of his opposing liberal views and his homosexuality.