Salvador Dali Timeline

1904: Salvador Dali is born.

1922: Salvador's maternal granmother dies.

1924: He spends a few days in prison.

1926: Dali has a meeting with Picasso.

1927: Dali paints "Honey is sweeter than blood', an important work.

1929: Salvador and Bunuel shoot "Un Chien Andalou" together.

1930: Bunuel's film "The Golden Age", with a script by Dali, is shown in Paris.

1934: Gala and Dali head for America in the Champlain.

1935: Dali returns to Europe and paints "Premonition of Civil War".

1937: At Hollywood, Dali paints a portrait of Harpo Marx.

1938: Salvador goes to London. He visits Sigmund Fred.

1939: Dali and Gala go back to New York, due to there being a Civil War in Spain.

1948: Dali goes back to Cadaques.

1950: Anna Maria Dali publishes "Salvador Dali as seen by his sister".

1956: In Paris, he creates a lithograph with eggs full of ink.

1958: He has a 12-metre long Baguette made by Parsian bakers.

1959: He creates engravings for "The Apocalypse of St. John" with a bomb.

1960: He presents his canvas "The Dream of Christopher Columbus" in New York.

1961: In Venice, he designs the sets and costumes for "Ballet de Gala".

1964: General Franco awards him the cross of the order of Isabella the Catholic.

1965: Dressed as Santa Claus, Dali signs "Diary of a Genius" at a New York bookstore.

1967: He paints "Tuna Fishing".

1968: Dali has cotton candy with Amanda Lear. He gets a wax statue of himself.

1969: He publishes "Metaphorphoses Erotiques".

1970: Exhibition in New York of posters for the French railways.

1971: Cover of "Vogue" with a double portrait of Mao-Marilyn.

1978: He meets Andy Warhol.

1979: Dali gives a speech at the Academy of Fine Arts.

1982: Gala dies.

1989: Dali dies.