1856 G.B.S. born 26 July in Dublin, the only son of George Carr Shaw and Lucinda Elizabeth Shaw (née Gurly)
1857 Charlotte Payne-Townshend born 20 January, Co. Cork
1876 Left his job with a Dublin firm of land agents and joined his mother and sister Lucy in London
1878-1883 Wrote five novels, all of which were rejected by the publishers 1888 Music critic for the Star under the pen name Corno di Bassetto 1892 His first play, Widowers' Houses, performed in London
1898 Married Charlotte at a London registry office and moved to her flat in Adelphi Terrace
1906 Moved to Ayot St Lawrence. Sat for Rodin
1926 Received Nobel Prize for Literature. Seventieth Birthday
1931 Visited Russia and received by Stalin. Ellen Terry/Shaw correspondence published. Sailed for South Africa
1932-1933 World tour on The Empress of Britain. Lecture in New York 1934-1936 Visit to New Zealand, tour of South Africa, and Pacific cruise. 1938 Ill with anaemia. Pygmalion filmed by Gabriel Pascal and awarded an 'Oscar' as the best film of the year
1943 Mrs Shaw died 12 September
1944 Shaw's Corner given to the National Trust
1946 Ninetieth birthday. Television broadcast. Received Freedoms of City of Dublin and Borough of St. Pancras
1950 Died at Shaw's Corner, 2 November, and his ashes, with those of his wife, scattered in the garden.
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