Note: Some of the places and dates listed below conflict with those found in Bukowski's FBI/post office files or in previously published biographies. Anything you see here that contradicts "the official record" is based primarily on information found in letters, first-hand accounts, and other reputable, independently researched, non-government-approved sources. Believe it!
	Events	Publications	Addresses	Readings	Jobs/Miscellany
1920	Henry Charles Bukowski born in Andernach Germany [August 16]		Andernach, Germany Coblenz (now Koblenz), Germany			1920
1921						1921
1922						1922
1923	Bukowski's move to America [April 18]		Baltimore 231 S. Hudson Ave, Pasadena (with relatives)			1923
1924			Trinity street (Los Angeles)			1924
1925	Attends San Marino School (now Valentine School), just South of Pasadena					1925
1926	Attends Virginia Road Elementary School Father drives dairy delivery truck for L.A. Creamery		4511 W 28th St, Los Angeles 90016			1926
1927						1927
1928						1928
1929						1929
1930						1930
1931			2122 S. Longwood Ave, 90016			1931
1932						1932
1933	Attends Mount Vernon Junior High School Breaks out in an extreme case of Acne Vulgaris and undergoes painful treatments					1933
1934						1934
1935	Begins going to the library; the Baldwin Hills branch of the Los Angeles Public Library at 2906 S. La Brea Ave, 90016 Writes first short story about a WWI pilot					1935
1936	Bukowski's father loses his job yet pretends to go to work every day Begins Susan Miller Dorsey High School [Sep]					1936
1937	Transfers to Los Angeles High School [Sep]					1937
1938						1938
1939	Graduates from Los Angeles High School. Attends Los Angeles City College to study Journalism and English				Works part time (very briefly) in stockroom of Sears & Roebuck on Olympic Blvd. for 55 cents an hour	1939
1940	Father throws Bukowski's possessions and manuscripts onto the front lawn after reading his short stories, Bukowski leaves home temporarily and finds a room on Temple Street (with financial assistance from his mother)	First publication; letter to the editor of LA City College paper, Cubby Hole Short story and poem [apparently] published in Write, Vol. 1 No. 2 (no copies known to exist - would be first published poetry and prose)	2122 S. Longwood Ave, 90016 Temple street 2122 S. Longwood Ave, 90016			1940
1941	Leaves Los Angeles City College without graduating [June]		2122 S. Longwood Ave, 90016		Works in the Southern Pacific railroad yards (unverified), and making auto transmission parts at Borg-Warner, 1516 S. Flower St.	1941
1942	Leaves Los Angeles to strike out on his own and see the country. While he claims to have lived in many cities during this period, evidence suggests he was in Philadelphia for the bulk of his time away from Los Angeles.		Ft. Worth, New Orleans, Atlanta, St. Louis, San Francisco [no verified addresses for these cities] Philadelphia		Works at Fairmont Motors, 16th and Fairmont St., Philadelphia	1942
1943	Loses virginity at age 23 to a woman he describes as a "300 pound whore"					1943
1944	Taken into custody by FBI agents in Philadelphia for suspected draft evasion [7/22]; spends 17 days at Moyamensing Prison Exempted from service in World War II for "Failing To Meet Medical Standards" after a physical and psychological evaluation [8/7]	Aftermath of a Lengthy Rejection Slip published in March/April issue of Story Magazine	261 W 16th, New York Philadelphia 2122 S. Longwood Ave, 90016			1944
1945			2122 S. Longwood Ave, 90016 1623 Green St., Philadelphia [October/November]		Works at Merry Co. (picture frame factory?), 634 S. San Pedro St., Los Angeles	1945
1946		20 Tanks From Kasseldown published in Portfolio III Publishes first poems in Matrix	603 N 17th St, Philadelphia, PA 19130		Works in a tool warehouse, Philadelphia, October	1946
1947	Returns to Los Angeles permanently, meets Jane Cooney Baker, they live together on and off until 1955 FBI files indicate the two were married, though Bukowski never acknowledged a marriage to Jane		2020 Mt Vernon St, Philadelphia [Apr] 2122 S. Longwood Ave, 90016		Works at Milliron's Dept. Store, 4th and Broadway (Milliron's became The Broadaway)	1947
1948			737 S. Union Ave. 90017 [Aug]			1948
1949			521 Union Dr, 90017 503 Union Dr, 90017		Works at Milliron's Dept. Store [cont.] Works at Sunbeam Lighting Co., 777 E. 14th Pl.	1949
1950			334 S Westlake Ave, 90057 [not in FBI file]		Works at Sunbeam Lighting Co. [cont.] Works for post office for the first time, December 11 to December 27 as a Temporary Substitute Carrier	1950
1951			503 Union Dr, 90017 268 4/6 S Coronado St, 90057		Works at Sunbeam Lighting Co. [cont.] Works at Calnevar Co. (making simulated wire wheels for cars), West Washington Blvd.	1951
1952			268 4/6 S Coronado St, 90057 2325 Ocean View Ave, 90057 [listed in FBI file, but no correspondence to verify]		Works at Calnevar Co. [cont.] Starts work for the Post Office as an Indefinite Substitute Carrier [3/5]	1952
1953			268 4/6 S Coronado St, 90057		Works for the Post Office as an Indefinite Substitute Carrier [cont.]	1953
1954	Treated at LA County Hospital for an internal hemorrhage (bleeding ulcer), nearly dies [Apr] (this event is widely reported to have taken place in 1955, but letters and hospital bills from the era indicate the year was 1954) After hospitalization begins writing poetry in greater quantity (earlier letters show that he had not given up writing "for ten years" after the publication of Portfolio, as he later claimed)		1237 W. 11th St, 90015 323 1/2 N Westmoreland Ave, 90004			1954
1955	Sends letter of resignation to the post office (citing "ill health") after three years as a letter carrier [3/11] Sends another letter to the post office asking to be re-hired [6/16] Married to Barbara Fry in Las Vegas [10/29]		323 1/2 N Westmoreland Ave, 90004 Wheeler, Texas 2254 1/2 Branden St, 90026 (with Barbara Fry)		Works for the Post Office as an Indefinite Substitute Carrier [cont.] Works for Supreme Lighting Co., 600 E. Turner St. Works at Graphic Arts Center, 1534 W. 7th St. Underwood portable typewriter	1955
1956	Begins first novel, A Place to Sleep the Night [unfinished] Mother, Katherine Bukowski, dies [12/24] Takes art classes at L. A. City College [10/56 to 2/57]		2254 1/2 Branden St, 90026 580 N Kingsley Dr, 90004		Works at Graphic Arts Center [cont.]	1956
1957	Co-edits Harlequin with Barbara Fry				Works at Graphic Arts Center [cont.] P.O. Box 75-451, Sanford Station (3751 W 6th St.), Los Angeles, 5, Calif. [11/12]	1957
1958	Separated from Barbara Fry Divorced from Barbara Fry [3/18] Father, Henry Bukowski, dies [12/4], Bukowski sells father's house for $15,000 ($8000 was still owed on the mortgage) Reconnects with Jane Cooney Baker [Dec]		1623 North Mariposa Ave, #303, 90027		Takes a job at the post office as a Temporary Substitute Distribution Clerk (mail sorter) [1/2] Postal Employee Number: 106160	1958
1959					Promoted to Distribution Clerk (still sorting mail, but no longer temporary) [3/21], works as a clerk until January, 1970	1959
1960	First contact with Outsider publisher Jon Webb Begins submitting poems to small literary magazines in greater numbers	His Wife, The Painter (broadside) [June] Flower, Fist and Bestial Wail [Oct] A Signature Of Charles Bukowski Poetry [Dec]				1960
1961	Attempts suicide by gas, wakes up with a headache, opens windows	Signature 2 [Aug] A Charles Bukowski Album				1961
1962	Jane Cooney Baker dies [1/22] First important review of his work, by R.R. Cuscaden	Poems and Drawings [3/17] Run with the Hunted [Mar] Longshot Pomes for Broke Players [Spring] The Priest And The Matador (broadside)		45 minute poetry reading on Los Angeles radio station KPFK [8/5]		1962
1963	Meets Frances Smith Outsider of the year "award" from the Webbs First published interview in Chicago Literary Times	It Catches My Heart In Its Hands [11/26] Same Old Thing, Shakespeare Through Mailer (broadside)				1963
1964	Marina Louise Bukowski born [9/7]	Grip The Walls [Dec] His Wife The Painter, The Old Man On The Corner, The Paper On The Floor, Waste Basket (broadsides contained in Coffin #1)	5126 1/4 DeLongpre Ave, 90027 (with a pregnant Frances Smith) [May] 5124 DeLongpre Ave, 90027 [Dec]			1964
1965	Writes poems for Crucifix in A Deathhand in New Orleans [March 6 - March 20] Receives first letter from future publisher John Martin [10/19] Separated from Frances Smith [Nov]	Crucifix in a Deathhand [Apr] Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts [Aug] Cold Dogs in the Courtyard [Summer]	5124 DeLongpre Ave, 90027			1965
1966	Bukowski and John Martin meet for the first time [1/22] Hemorrhoid operation [3/2] Starts novel The Way the Dead Love [unfinished]	John Martin publishes first Bukowski broadside True Story in an edition of 30 (first Black Sparrow publication) [Apr] The Genius of the Crowd [June] All The Assholes In The World and Mine [Sep]			Still driving 1957 Plymouth that he and Barbara Fry bought new ten years earlier	1966
1967		2 Poems [4/7] Notes of a dirty old man column debuts in Open City weekly [Vol. 2 No. 2, May 12 - 18] - ran 87 weeks The Curtains Are Waving And People Walk Through The Afternoon Here And In Berlin And In New York City And In Mexico [10/13]			Reads 18 poems from the upcoming At Terror Street and Agony Way onto tape for the limited edition tape released along with the book [Dec]	1967
1968	Post office officials and FBI interview Bukowski [2/8]	At Terror Street and Agony Way, book and open reel tape [5/15] Poems Written Before Jumping Out Of An 8 Story Window [Summer]				1968
1969	John Martin offers to pay Bukowski a quarter of his own income ($100/mo at the time) "for life" to quit the post office and write full time [Dec]	Notes of a Dirty Old Man [1/24] A Bukowski Sampler [7/15] The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over The Hills [12/30] Penguin Modern Poets		First known public readings at The Bridge bookstore, Los Angeles [12/19, 12/20] [Actual first reading was broadcast on KPFK radio seven years earlier]	Remington typewriter Records 6 hours of poetry for Beatles short-lived experimental/spoken word label, Zapple. [Feb] Record is never released, but excerpts appear on CD in the 1990's.	1969
1970	Quit post office [1/7] Finishes first novel Post Office [Feb] Starts novel The Horseplayer [unfinished] Meets Linda King First airplane trip (to Washington state for readings)	Fire Station [Mar] Notes of a Dirty Old Man published in Germany, first of many German translations		Cal State L.A. [2/17] The Kiva, University of New Mexico [5/15] West Washington State College [5/29] Bellevue Community College [5/30] Bookstore ? [7/3] California State University Long Beach [7/22] Venice, CA coffeehouse [8/5] Rembrandt Hall, Pomona College, CA [Nov]	Underwood typewriter	1970
1971	Sells his literary archive and papers to UCSB for $5,000 Starts novel The Poet [unpublished]	Post Office [2/8]		Venice, CA coffeehouse [1/27] University of Southern California [4/23] Benefit for Kenneth Patchen [?]	Switches from an Underwood typewriter to a Royal (Quiet De Luxe) [Jan]. Used mainly portable Underwood typewriters prior to the Royal Drives 1962 Mercury Comet	1971
1972	Splits with Linda King and begins seeing Liza Williams [May - July] Reunites with Linda King [Aug]	Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions And General Tales Of Ordinary Madness [Apr] Mockingbird Wish Me Luck [6/1] Me And Your Sometimes Love Poems		Two readings in one day (noon and early evening), California State University Long Beach [Apr] City Lights Poets Theater, 555 Chestnut, San Francisco [9/14] Papa Bach's bookstore, Los Angeles [maybe two readings, dates unconfirmed]		1972
1973	Separates from Linda King [8/1] Bukowski, Taylor Hackford's film premieres at Barnsdall Park Municipal Gallery Theater [11/25] Bukowski, Taylor Hackford's film (60 minute version) airs on KCET in Los Angeles [11/26]	While The Music Played [2/12] South Of No North [12/17]	2440 Edgewater Terrace, 90039 (with Linda King) 151 s. oxford ave #24, 90004	California State University Long Beach [11/29] San Francisco Museum of Art, Poetry Center [12/6]	P. O. box 26469, Los Angeles, 90026 [10/19]	1973
1974	$5,000 grant from National Endowment of the Arts to write a novel	Burning In Water Drowning In Flame [6/21] Poems Written Before Jumping Out Of An 8 Story Window German translation sells 50,000 copies	5526 Carlton Way, 90027 5437 2/5 Carlton Way, 90027	Underwater Poetry Festival, Salt Lake City [10/5] MCCC-TV Studio, Detroit [10/31] Santa Cruz Poetry Festival [11/25]	Telephone: (213) 462-0614	1974
1975		Africa, Paris, Greece [3/21] Factotum [12/18]	5437 2/5 Carlton Way, 90027	West Coast Bodega, Long Beach [3/5] Northern California [May] Telegraph Hill Gym, San Francisco [5/31] Golden Bear, Huntington Beach [6/25] Houston [Oct] Baudelaire's, Santa Barbara [Oct] Golden Bear, Huntington Beach [10/31] Evanston, IL [11/18, 11/19]	Switches from Royal typewriter to an Olympia Standard [Dec]	1975
1976	Meets future wife Linda Lee Beighle at a reading at the Troubadour [9/29] First trip outside the U.S. for a reading in Canada [Oct]	Scarlet [4/14] Art [12/13]		Amazingrace, Chicago [Jan] St. Mark's Church Poetry Project, New York [June] Troubadour, Los Angeles [7/11 comedian Steve Martin opens] San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center [9/10] Troubadour, Los Angeles [9/29] Western Front, Vancouver [Oct] Santa Cruz Poetry Festival [11/13]	Major profile in Rolling Stone magazine [June 17] Drives Volkswagon Beetle	1976
1977		Maybe Tomorrow [3/1] Love Is A Dog From Hell [9/15]		Baudelaire's, Santa Barbara [6/5]		1977
1978	First trip to Europe [May] Travels to France and appears on (and walks off) popular arts program Apostrophe [Oct]	You Kissed Lilly [2/8] We'll Take Them [9/5] Women [12/15] Legs, Hips And Behind	San Pedro [Oct]	Milwaukee, U of W [4/17] Germany [May]		1978
1979	Meets Barbet Schroeder and begins writing the screenplay, The Rats of Thirst, which would eventually be filmed as Barfly Buys first new car, a BMW.	Play The Piano Drunk Like A Percussion Instrument Until The Fingers Begin To Bleed A Bit [7/25] Shakespeare Never Did This [Sep]		Viking Inn, Vancouver [10/12]	Drives BMW. Volkswagon Beetle is relegated to the garage in San Pedro	1979
1980				Final live reading at the Sweetwater in Redondo Beach [Apr]	Bukowski stops using carbon paper and begins to use a Xerox machine to make manuscript submission copies [May]	1980
1981	Italian film production of Tales of Ordinary Madness starring Ben Gazzara released [9/11]	Dangling In The Tournefortia [9/25]			Temporary split with Linda [Feb] Phone: (213) 832-3170	1981
1982		Ham On Rye [7/28] Horsemeat [12/27]			Temporary split with Linda [Dec]	1982
1983		Bring Me Your Love [7/8] Hot Water Music [9/28] The Bukowski/Purdy Letters [Nov] The Most Beautiful Woman In Town And Other Stories [Dec] Tales Of Ordinary Madness [Dec]			Temporary split with Linda [Aug] Switches from Olympia typewriter to an IBM Selectric [Aug]	1983
1984		There's No Business [3/28] War All The Time [10/16] Barfly [Dec] Horses Don't Bet On People & Neither Do I Going Modern			Phone: (213) 519-7279	1984
1985	Proposes to Linda Lee Linda Lee Beighle [3/20] Marries Linda Lee at the Church of the People in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles [8/18]	Cornered [Oct]				1985
1986		The Wedding [Jan] The Day It Snowed In L. A. [Sep] You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense [9/26] Relentless As The Tarantula			P. O. box 132, San Pedro, 90731 [Mar]	1986
1987	Barfly film released [10/16] Belgian film Crazy Love, released, based on Bukowski stories [Oct] The Bukowski Tapes premieres in America at EZTV in Santa Monica, CA (with Bukowski and Schroeder in attendance), limited release on VHS by Lagoon Video	Bukowski Photographs 1977-1987 [Sep]				1987
1988	Undergoes three treatments for removal of separate skin cancers [summer]	The Roominghouse Madrigals [5/25] Beauti-Ful [Aug]				1988
1989	Undergoes treatment for Tuberculosis, which forces him to temporarily give up drinking	Red [1/30] Hollywood [4/25]				1989
1990		Septuagenarian Stew [5/10] This [5/25] Not Quite Bernadette [Fall] Darkness & Ice [Nov]				1990
1991	First full-length biography published, Neeli Cherkovski's Hank - The Life of Charles Bukowski	In The Shadow Of The Rose [7/25] People Poems			Switches from the IBM Selectric to an Apple MacIntosh [1/18] Abandons the Xerox machine and now uses only a computer printer to make manuscripts [Apr]	1991
1992	Undergoes treatment for cataracts, diminishing his vision	The Last Night Of The Earth Poems [3/23] Three Poems [5/21]				1992
1993	Spends 64 days in the hospital receiving chemotherapy treatment for Leukemia, quits drinking and smoking. Begins practicing Transcendental Meditation [9/19]	Bukowski Photographs 1977-1991 [Jan] Run With The Hunted (collection of previously published poems) [5/4] Screams From the Balcony (letters) [11/15]				1993
1994	Bukowski dies [3/9] Buried at Green Hills Memorial Park in Rancho Palos Verdes, near his home in San Pedro [3/14]	Pulp [4/22]			Writing until the very end, he uses a fax machine to send his "first fax poem" to John Martin [2/18] Bukowski dies less than 3 weeks later	1994
1995		Heat Wave [Oct] Living on Luck (Letters) [11/15]				1995
1996		Betting on the Muse [5/13]				1996
1997		Bone Palace Ballet [3/25] The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship [3/23]				1997
1998						1998
1999		Reach For The Sun (Letters) [June] what matters most is how well you walk through the fire [Sep]				1999
2000		Open All Night [Oct]				2000
2001		Beerspit Night and Cursing (Letters) [May] the night torn mad with footsteps (Final Black Sparrow Bukowski poetry release) [Sep]				2001
2002		Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line the Way (first release published by Ecco/HarperCollins) [12/24]				2002
2003		Bukowski (Photographs) Final Black Sparrow publication The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain [12/23]				2003
2004	Born Into This documentary feature released [5/28]					2004
2005	Factotum film released in Europe (U.S. release in 2006)	Slouching Toward Nirvana [1/18]				2005
2006	Linda donates Bukowski's papers to the Huntington Library in Los Angeles [June] Huntington Library event, "Celebrating Bukowski," to announce Linda's donation [9/20] The Bukowski Tapes gets wide release on DVD	Come On In! [1/3]				2006
2007		The People Look Like Flowers At Last (Final book of "new" poems?) [4/1] Pleasures of the Damned (collection of previously published poems, includes a few uncollected works) [10/30]				2007
2008		Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook [Sep]				2008
2009		The Continual Condition [10/2]				2009
2010		Absence of the Hero City Lights follow-up to Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook [Apr]				2010

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