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- 1883 Nikos Kazantzakis born in Heraklion, Crete.
- 1902 Kazantzakis studies Law in Athens.
- 1907 Studies in Paris, where he is influenced by his tutor Henri Bergson
- 1914 Meets Angelos Sikelianos, with whom he travels to Mount Athos and elsewhere in Greece.
- 1918 Travels to Switzerland and Russia as a senior civil servant, assisting in the repatriation of Greeks from the Caucasus.
- 1922 Lives in Vienna and Berlin.
- 1924 Returns to Greece and to Crete.
- 1925 Makes three journeys to Russia.
- 1932 Travels to Spain for several months.
- 1935 Travels to China and Japan.
- 1936 Reports on the Spanish Civil War as a foreign correspondent for the Kathimerini newspaper.
- 1939 Is invited by the British Council to England, where he spends the first few months of World War Two.
- 1940 Returns to Greece and lives on Aegina for the duration of the War and the German occupation.
- 1946 Leaves Greece for England, staying temporarily in Cambridge. In September 1946 Kazantzakis settles in Paris, where he works for a short time as a literary advisor to UNESCO .
- 1948 Settles in Antibes in the South of France. While continuing to write, he takes a keen interest in the numerous translations and publications of his works around the world.
- 1957 Travels to China, where he falls ill. Returns to Europe (Copenhagen) and is subsequently transferred to Freiburg University Hospital, where he dies on 26th October 1957.
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