Through our vast quantity of compositions during the extent of our Promotional Blitz, we are aware that their chronological aspects are undoubtedly askew. Therefore, we have assembled a three part timeline, expatiating on what Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí and Federico Garcia Lorca were engaged in amid the years in which the premise of Little Ashes transpires. The events are indicated by color corresponding to the appropriate person: Buñuel is in black, Dalí is in blue, and Lorca is in red.

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Year - 1922

Year - 1923

January - With the help of friend Manuel de Falla, Lorca puts on a King's Day puppet show in his parents home. The show included a puppet play by Lorca. At the end of the month, Lorca finally completed his law degree, which he never used.
Spring - Lorca returns to Madrid and the Residencia de Estudiantes. There he meets Dalí for the first time.
May - Buñuel's father dies, making him head of the family.
Summer - Buñuel organizes the "Noble Order of Toledo." The main requirement of being part of this organization was simply to love Toledo unconditionally and get drunk there and spend one full night wandering through the streets.
June - Dalí passes his end of the session examinations and wins a prize in history of art. He spends the summer in Cadaqués.
Summer through fall - Lorca continues writing his Suites. He also writes his play, Mariana Pineda.
Sept. 29 - Dalí returns to the Residencia and The Special Schools.
Oct. 22 - Dalí is expelled from the academy for one year for leading a student protest over non-appointment of Daniel Vazquez Diaz as professor of open-air painting at the Royal Academy. He returns to Figueres.
November - Lorca returns to Madrid and the Residencia de Estudiantes.
Dalí's work 1923 - Cadaqués (Seen from Tower of Creus), Crystalline Still Life, Cubist Self-Portrait with "La Publicitat, El Moli - Landscape Near Cadaqués, La Jorneta,  Portrait of My First Cousin, Self Portrait with L'Humanitie, The Sick Child, Banistas de Es Llane, Self Portrait (D).

Year - 1924

May 21 - Dalí is arrested and held until June 11 when he is released without charges. Records show no reason for his arrest, but it was probably to intimidate his father.
June - Lorca is re-writing the play Mariana Pineda. He leaves Madrid to return to Granada.
June - Luis Buñuel takes a degree in History from the University of Madrid.
Summer - After a visit with Juan Ramon Jimenez, Lorca returns to the family summer home in Asquerosa, where he continues to write the Romancero Gitano or Gypsy Ballads. He wrote Ballad of Black Anguish on July 30 and The Gypsy Nun on Aug. 20. He also starts to work on The Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife.
September - Dalí re-enrolls at the Royal Academy of San Fernando Special School.
Fall - Lorca returns to the Residencia where he resumes his friendship with Dalí, while starting another friendship with poet Rafael Alberti.
Dalí's work 1924 - Ana Marie, Bather, Portrait of Luis Bunuel, The Station at Figueres, Still Life - Syphon and a Bottle of Rum, Triple Portrait of Lorca (D).

Year - 1925

Early 1925 - Buñuel leaves Madrid and the Residencia de Estudiantes for Paris. He is hired as a film assistant by Jean Epstein, a renowned French film director.
Jan. 8 - Mariana Pineda is officially finished and dated by Lorca.
April 13 - Lorca accepts an invitation to give a poetry recital in Barcelona.
Holy Week (April 5) - Lorca makes his first visit with Dalí and his family in Cadaqués.  There he reads Mariana Pineda to the Dalís and selected friends. He also posed as a corpse for Anna Maria, a photo Dalí would later use in his painting Still Life.
May 27 - Dalí shows 11 works at the Sociedad Iberica de Artistas exhibition in Madrid.
Late Spring - Lorca returns to Madrid and begins writing Ode to Salvador Dalí.
Summer - After returning to Granada and then to Asquerosa for his final full summer there, Lorca writes Buster Keaton's Stroll.
Fall - Lorca returns to Granada, from where he is desperate to escape.
Nov. 14 - Dalí has first one-man exhibition at the Dalmau Gallery in Barcelona. Twenty two works were on display.
Dalí's work 1925 - Figure at a Window, Back of Girl, Still Life with Moonlight, Portrait of the Artist's Father, Portrait of Ana Marie (Cadaqués), Venus and a Sailor, Venus with Cupids, Thought, Nude in the Water , Portrait of Artist's Father and Sister (D), Self Portrait Dedicated to Lorca (D).

Year - 1926

Feb. 13 - While in Granada, Lorca delivers inaugural speech for the Scientific and Artistic Athenaeum, titled The Poetic Image in Don Luis de Góngora.
April - Ode to Salvador Dalí is published in Revista de Occidente. Lorca is back at the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid.
April 11 - Dalí, accompanied by his sister and step-mother, leaves for Paris. They are met at the train station by Buñuel. They also visit Brussels.
Summer - Lorca is with his family in Granada, Asquerosa and Lanjarón. He continues to work on Gypsy Ballads. He also finishes an early draft of Señor Don Perlimplin.
September - Lorca writes to friend Jorge Guillen that he is determined to be a literature teacher.
October - Dalí is expelled from the Royal Academy of San Fernando for stating that no one on the faculty is competent to examine him. He exhibits two paintings in the annual Barcelona Autumn Salon and three paintings at the Dalmau Gallery.
November - Three of Lorca's Gypsy Ballads, St. Michael, The Arrest of Antoñito el Camborio and Preciosa and the Wind, are published in the first issue of the literary magazine, Litoral.
Dec. 31 - Dalí has his second one-man exhibition at the Dalmau Gallery. He shows 23 paintings and seven drawings, including Still Life (Invitation to Sleep).
Dalí's work 1926 - The Basket of Bread, The Girl from Figueres, Still Life (Invitation to Sleep),  Figure on the Rocks, Composition with Three Figures (Neo-Cubist Academy), Rocks at Llane (Landscape near Cadaqués),  Portrait of a Girl in a Landscape,  Women Lying on the Beach, Femme Couchee (D), Girl Sewing (D), Portrait of Federico Garcia Lorca (D).

Year - 1927

Feb. 1 - Dalí begins his mandatory military service in Figueres.
Feb. 12 - Lorca receives the first proofs of Songs.
May through June - Lorca splits his time between Barcelona, Figueres and Cadaqués preparing to open Mariana Pineda. Dalí designs the sets for his friend.
June 14 - Mariana Pineda opens in Barcelona. The play runs until July 3.
Summer - Lorca spends his final summer month at Cadaqués. He returns to Granada where he works on his prose piece Saint Lucy and Saint Lazarus.
July - Dalí's Saint Sebastian is published in L'Amie de les Arts. He dedicates it to Lorca.
July 27 - Buñuel writes to Pepin Bello complaining about Lorca and Dalí's friendship.
Oct. 12 - Maria Pineda opens in Madrid.
December - Lorca gives his lecture on Góngora at the Residencia de Estudiantes. Returns to Granada on Dec. 23.
Dalí's work 1927 - Honey is Sweeter than Blood, Still Life by the Light of the Moon, Little Ashes, Apparatus and Hand, Barcelonese Mannequin, Harlequin, Head of a Woman, Nude Woman in an Armchair, The Poet on the Beach of Ampurias - Federico Garcia Lorca (D), Saint Sebastian (D).

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Read the rest of our Little Ashes Timeline Series:

Little Ashes, Part Two: 1928 - 1932

Little Ashes Timeline, Part Three: 1933 - 1936

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