| 1904 |
Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech is born in Figueres, Spain on May 11.
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| 1922 |
He attends the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid.
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| 1925 |
First one-man exhibition in Barcelona.
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| 1928 |
First Dalí painting shown in the US at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburg, PA.
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| 1927 |
Dalí is called to the Castle of San Fernando for 9 months of military service
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| 1929 |
Dalí meets future wife Gala Éluard. He joins the Surrealist movement.
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| 1934 |
Gala and Dalí marry in a civil ceremony on January 30.
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| 1936 |
Dalí gives a lecture in a diving suit at the International Surrealist Exhibition in London. Appears on cover of Time Magazine.
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| 1938 |
Dalí visits Sigmund Freud in London.
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| 1939 |
Dali creates the pavilion the Dream of Venus for the 1936 World’s Fair – an installation of art and performance that will profoundly influence the course of art in the world.
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| 1940 |
Following the German occupation of Paris, the Dalí’s flee to America to live for the next eight years, working with figures like Hitchcock and Disney. They divide their time between New York and California.
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| 1941 |
Dalí’s first major retrospective is held at the Museum of Modern Art, in New York.
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| 1942 |
Dalí’s autobiography The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí is published.
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| 1943 |
Dalí and Gala meet Eleanor and Reynolds Morse who purchase their first Dalí painting, Daddy Longlegs of the Evening, Hope! They Morse’s become lasting friends and most devoted collectors.
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| 1944 |
Dali publishes his novel Rostras Oscuras (Hidden Faces)
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| 1948 |
Dali and Gala return to Spain for the first time after 8 years in the US, Dali returns to NY each winter
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| 1952 |
Dalí goes on a lecture tour in America on “nuclear mysticism”—his new theory of art which combines religion, math, science and Catalan culture in an attempt to revive classical values and techniques; he becomes an American celebrity anew.
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| 1958 |
Dalí and Gala marry in a religious ceremony in Girona, Spain on August 8.
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| 1965 |
Huntington Hartford’s Gallery of Modern Art, New York, holds a major Dalí retrospective exhibition featuring the entire Morse collection.
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| 1974 |
Dalí’s museum, the Teatre-Museu Dalí, in Figueres, Spain, opens on September 28.
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| 1982 |
Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida opens on March 7. Gala dies in her castle in Pubol, Spain, on June 10. King Juan Carlos of Spain confers the title of Marquis of Pubol on Dalí. Dalí succeeds in changing it to the Marquis of Dalí and Pubol.
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| 1989 |
Dalí dies of heart failure on January 23 in Figueres. He is buried under the geodesic dome in the Teatre-Museu Dalí.
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