1879 – Christian Webb Welty born.
1883 – Chestina Andrews Welty born.
1904 – Christian Webb Welty and Chestina Andrews Welty marry.
1907 – The Weltys’ son Christian Welty dies at age 15 months.
April 13, 1909 – Eudora born in Jackson, Mississippi, at 741 N. Congress Street.
1912 – Brother Edward Welty born.
1915 – Brother Walter Welty born.
1924 – A sister is stillborn.
1925 – Graduates from Jackson’s Central High School
1925-27 – Attends Mississippi State College for Women, Columbus, Mississippi
1927-29 – Attends and graduates from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
1930-31 – Attends Columbia University School of Business
1931 – Christian Webb Welty, Eudora Welty’s father, dies.
1931-34 – Eudora works in Jackson at WJDX radio station.
1933-35 – Eudora writes Jackson society columns for the Memphis Commercial-Appeal.
1936 – Eudora publishes her first stories, “Death of a Traveling Salesman” and “Magic,” in Manuscript magazine, has a one-woman photographic exhibit in New York City, and works for the Works Progress Administration.
1937 — Eudora has a second photographic exhibit in New York city and travels to Mexico with three Jackson friends.
1937-39 – Eudora publishes ten stories in the Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, River.
1939 – Eudora works for the Mississippi Advertising Commission.
1940 – Diarmuid Russell becomes Eudora Welty’s agent.
1941 – Eudora publishes stories in the Atlantic Monthly and Harper’s Bazaar. Her first book of stories, A Curtain of Green, is published.
1942 – The Robber Bridegroom
1943 – The Wide Net
1944 – Eudora works for several months as a copy editor and staff reviewer for the New York Times Book Review.
1946 – Delta Wedding
1946-47 – Eudora has two extended stays in San Francisco.
1949 – The Golden Apples
1949-50 – Eudora travels through Europe on a Guggenheim Fellowship.
1951 – Eudora spends a few months in England and Ireland.
1952 – Elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
1954 – Eudora lectures at Cambridge University in England and publishes The Ponder Heart.
1955 – The Bride of the Innisfallen; Eudora receives Howell’s Medal from Academy of Arts and Letters.
1956 – Jerome Chodorov’s and Joseph Fields’s dramatization of The Ponder Heart runs on Broadway.
1959 – Eudora’s brother Walter dies.
1963 – Eudora publishes “Where is the Voice Coming From?” in The New Yorker.
1966 – Eudora’s mother Chestina and her brother Edward die.
1966 – “The Demonstrators” appears in The New Yorker.
1969 – “The Optimist’s Daughter” appears in The New Yorker.
1970 – Eudora publishes Losing Battles, a novel begun in 1955.
1971 – Eudora’s book of photographs, One Time, One Place, is published, and she is elected to American Academy of Arts and Letters.
1972 – The Optimist’s Daughter in revised and expanded form is published, and Eudora receives the Gold Medal for Fiction from the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
1973 – The Optimist’s Daughter receives a Pulitzer Prize.
1974 – Eudora travels through Italy and France.
1976 – Alfred Uhry’s dramatization of The Robber Bridegroom runs on Broadway.
1978 – The Eye of the Story
1979 – Artist-in-residence, British Studies Program, Associated Colleges of the South, held at Oxford University
1980 – The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty; Eudora receives Presidential Medal of Freedom
1983 – Eudora delivers the William E. Massey, Sr., Lectures in the History of American Civilization at Harvard University.
1984 – One Writer’s Beginnings; Eudora travels to England and Italy.
1986 – Eudora receives National Medal of the Arts.
1989 – Photographs
1990 – Travels to London
1991 – Norton Book of Friendship, co-edited with Ronald A. Sharp
1996 – Receives French Legion of Honor in ceremony held at the Old Capitol Museum in Jackson.
1998 – The Library of America publishes two volumes of Eudora’s fiction and non-fiction, making her the first living writer whose works have become part of this distinguished series.
2001 – Eudora Welty dies on July 23.