Benito Perez Galdos's Life

  • Benito Perez Galdos is born

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    Life

  • Starts law school at the University of Madrid

    It does not state exactly what date he started law school.
  • He begins his journalistic work in La Nacion

    There is not a specific date.
  • Receives Bachiller en Artes

  • He becomes the general editor of El Debate

    No specific date is mentioned.
  • Sebastian Perez dies

  • He becomes the editor at La Revista

    No specific date is mentioned.
  • He starts the Episodios Nacionales and gives up the majority of his journalistic work

  • He writes Dona Perfecta and the first volume of Gloria

    No specific date is mentioned.
  • He finishes Gloria and the second series of Episodios Nacionales. He also writes the Familia de Leon Roch

    No specific date is mentioned
  • He is elected to the Congress as a Liberal

    No specific date is mentioned.
  • "Mama" Dolores dies

  • Galdos is elected to the Royal Spanish Academy

  • His daughter is born in Santander

  • His first play, Realidad, is premiered

  • He writes Misercordia

    No specific date is mentioned.
  • He writes the third series of Episodios Nacionales

    No specific date is mentioned.
    He continues writing these through 1900.
  • He suffers a hemiplegic stroke.

    No specific date is mentioned.
  • His daughter's mother commits suicide

  • He starts to write the Fifth series of Episodios Nacionales

    No specific date is mentioned.
    He continues to write this series through 1912.
    This series remains incomplete.
  • He is elected Republican Representative for Gran Canaria

    No specific date is mentioned.
  • His last play, Santa Juana de Castilla, is produced

    No specific date is mentioned.
  • Benito Perez Galdos dies