George Orwell

English novelist, journalist, essayist, and social critic. Widely known by the pen name George Orwell rather than his real name, Eric Arthur Blair. He criticized totalitarianism, information manipulation by power, social inequality, and poverty, and supported democratic socialism. His representative works include the political fable Animal Farm and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. He deepened his political thoughts through experiences such as working as a colonial police officer in Burma, reporting on the poor within Britain, and participating in the Spanish Civil War. During World War II, he worked for the BBC and continued his journalistic activities after the war. He suffered from tuberculosis in his later years and died at the age of 46.

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Year	George Orwell
1903	Birth in India and migration to Britain (Period: Around 1903–1904, Location: Motihari, India, Britain) Birth of George Orwell (Period: June 25, 1903, Location: Motihari, Bihar, India)
1917	Education at Eton College (Age: 13 years old, Period: 1917–1921, Location: Eton, Berkshire, England)
1922	Service as a colonial police officer in Burma and critique of colonialism (Age: 18 years old, Period: 1922–1927, Location: British Burma (present-day Myanmar), Mandalay, etc.)
1928	Poverty in Paris and London (Age: 24 years old, Period: Around 1928–1932, Location: Paris, France, London, England)
1930	British authorities' surveillance of Orwell (Age: 26 years old, Period: 1930s–1940s (surveillance records published later), Location: Britain)
1933	Adoption of the pen name George Orwell (Age: 29 years old, Period: 1933, Location: Britain)
1934	Publication of Burmese Days (Age: 30 years old, Period: 1934, Location: Britain (publishing))
1936	Spanish Civil War (Age: 32 years old, Period: 1936–1939, Location: Barcelona, Spain, etc.) Marriage to Eileen O'Shaughnessy (Age: 32 years old, Period: 1936, Location: Marriage leading to life around Wallington, England) Participation in the Spanish Civil War and writing of Homage to Catalonia (Age: 32 years old, Period: 1936–1938, Location: Catalonia region, Aragon front, Spain, Britain (publishing)) Marriage (George Orwell, Eileen O'Shaughnessy, Age: 32 years old, Period: June 1936, Location: Marriage leading to life around Wallington, England (details of venue unknown))
1937	Publication of The Road to Wigan Pier (Age: 33 years old, Period: 1937, Location: Industrial region of northern England (research), Britain (publishing)) Barcelona May Days (Age: 33 years old, Period: May 1937, Location: Barcelona, Spain)
1939	World War II (Age: 35 years old, Period: 1939–1945, Location: Britain, North Africa, Mediterranean region, etc.)
1940	Worsening of tuberculosis and death (Age: 36 years old, Period: Late 1940s–January 21, 1950, Location: London, England)
1941	Service in the BBC Eastern Service (Age: 37 years old, Period: 1941–1943, Location: London, England)
1945	Publication of Animal Farm (Age: 41 years old, Period: 1945, Location: Britain (publishing))
1946	Writing of Nineteen Eighty-Four on the Isle of Jura (Age: 42 years old, Period: Around 1946–1948, Location: Isle of Jura, Inner Hebrides, Scotland)
1949	Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four (Age: 45 years old, Period: 1949, Location: Britain (publishing)) Remarriage to Sonia Brownell (Age: 46 years old, Period: October 1949, Location: London, England) Marriage (George Orwell, Sonia Brownell, Age: 46 years old, Period: October 1949, Location: London, England)
1950	Death of George Orwell (Age: 46 years old, Period: January 21, 1950) Death from tuberculosis (Age: 46 years old, Period: January 21, 1950, Location: London, England)

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NATO	Winston Churchill Charles de Gaulle Harold Macmillan Ernest Bevin Konrad Adenauer Paul-Henri Spaak Pierre Mendès France Margaret Thatcher Helmut Schmidt
British Conservative Party	Anthony Eden Winston Churchill Harold Macmillan Alec Douglas-Home Edward Heath Margaret Thatcher John Major
British Labour Party	Clement Attlee Harold Wilson James Callaghan Michael Foot Neil Kinnock
Culture and Thought	Francis Bacon Jean-Paul Sartre Simone de Beauvoir Albert Camus Hannah Arendt George Orwell Arthur Koestler Umberto Eco Italo Calvino Jean-Philippe Arthur Dubuffet
Science and Technology	John Cockcroft Francis Crick James Watson Dennis Gabor Dorothy Hodgkin Tim Berners-Lee Paul Flory

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