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J.R.R. TOLKIEN TIMELINE
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1901
1892
1897
1891
England celebrates Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.
January 3rd: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien is born in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
Queen Victoria dies. Her son, Edward VII, becomes king of England.
April 16th: Mabel Suffield and Arthur Reuel Tolkien are married in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
1915
1914
1902
1911
WWI begins.
Tolkien receives an Exhibiton Scholarship to Oxford University.
Tolkien receives Foundation Scholarship to King Edward VI High School for Boys.
Tolkien enlists as officer with the Lancashire Fusiliers during WWI.
1917
1918
1916
1920
Tolkien begins work on the staff of the "New English Dictionary"
Tolkien marries Edith Bratt on March 22. He travels to France to fight at the Somme.
The Bolshevik Revolution brings Communism to Russia.
Tolkien receives appointment as Reader at the University of Leeds.
WWI ends on Nov. 11
1929
1924
1925
1922
Tolkien is appointed Professor of English Language at the University of Leeds.
Tolkien publishes "A Middle English Vocabulary".
Worldwide economic depression begins.
Tolkien edits and publishes "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" & becomes profesor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford Uni.
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