The Big Bang, dinosaurs roamed the Earth, the ice age struck, Moses parted the Red Sea, Tolkien was born. This was quite a significant era in the history of the world.
| Late 1850's | Arthur Reuel Tolkien is born. |
| January 1870 | Mabel Suffield is born. [BIO 10] |
| January 21, 1889 | Edith Bratt is born in Gloucester. [BIO 38] |
| April 16, 1891 | Mabel Suffield and Arthur Reuel Tolkien are married in Bloemfontein, South Africa [BIO 10] |
| January 3, 1892 | John Ronald Reuel Tolkien is born in Bloemfontein, South Africa [BIO 12; RELATION 4; TTIE 10] |
The full bibliography explains the abbreviated references used in this document.
http://gollum.usask.ca/tolkien/
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