| 1882 |
25 January: Born Adeline Virginia Stephen. |
| 1895 |
5 May: Death of mother, Julia Stephen. |
| 1899 |
Virginia's brother, Thoby Stephen, attends Cambridge, where he meets members of the future Bloomsbury Group (Lytton Strachey, Leonard Woolf, Clive Bell). |
| 1904 |
22 February: Death of father, Leslie Stephen. Travels in Italy. Moves to Gordon Square. 14 December: Virginia's first publication, an unsigned review, appears in the Guardian. |
| 1905 |
Travels in Spain and Portugal. |
| 1906 |
Travels in Greece. 20 November: Death of brother, Thoby Stephen. |
| 1907 |
7 February: Marriage of Vanessa Stephen and Clive Bell. April: Moves to 29 Fitzroy Square. |
| 1908 |
4 February: Nephew Julian Bell is born. |
| 1909 |
17 February: Lytton Strachey proposes marriage to Virginia, and she accepts. The engagement is soon called off. |
| 1910 |
19 August: Nephew Claudian [Quentin] Bell is born. |
| 1912 |
10 August: Marries Leonard Woolf. |
| 1913 |
Suicide attempt. |
| 1915 |
March: The Voyage Out (originally entitled Melymbrosia) is published. |
| 1917 |
Formation of Hogarth Press. |
| 1918 |
May: Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians is published. |
| 1919 |
July: The Woolfs buy Monk's House. 20 October: Publication of Night and Day. |
| 1921 |
March: Publication of Monday or Tuesday. |
| 1922 |
October: Jacob's Room published. December: Meets Vita Sackville-West. |
| 1924 |
Moves to 52 Tavistock Square. |
| 1925 |
April: Publication of The Common Reader. May: Publication of Mrs. Dalloway
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| 1927 |
May: To the Lighthouse is published. |
| 1928 |
Awarded Femina Vie Heureuse prize. October: Publication of Orlando. At Cambridge reads two papers on which A Room of One's Own is based. |
| 1929 |
October: Publication of A Room of One's Own. |
| 1930 |
February: Meets Ethel Smyth. |
| 1931 |
October: Publication of The Waves. |
| 1932 |
January: Death of Lytton Strachey. July: Letter to a Young Poet is published. |
| 1933 |
Flush is published by Hogarth Press. |
| 1934 |
September: Death of Roger Fry. |
| 1937 |
March: Publication of The Years. July: Julian Bell dies in Spanish Civil War. |
| 1938 |
June: Publication of Three Guineas. |
| 1939 |
August: Virginia and Leonard move to 37 Mecklenburgh Square. |
| 1940 |
July: Publication of Roger Fry: A Biography. |
| 1941 |
26 February: Between the Acts is completed. 28 March: Commits suicide. |
