Timeline

1875
November 24 – James Dennis marries Katherine (Kate) Frances Tobin at Mintaro, South Australia

1876
September 7 – Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis (CJD) is born in Auburn, South Australia
September 10 – CJD is baptised in St. Aloysius' College, Sevenhill, South Australia

1880
October 7 – birth of CJD's brother Francis Albert (Bert)

1886
March 16 – birth of CJD's brother Claude Leo

1890
August 16 – Katherine Dennis, the mother of CJD, dies

1898
February 12 – first CJD work appears in The Critic

1902
April 5 – first CJD work published in Bulletin

1905
August – CJD forms The Gadfly Syndicate with a number of literary friends

1906
February 14 – first issue of The Gadfly

1907
November – CJD leaves Adelaide for Melbourne

1908
Death of CJD's brother Bert as a result of an accident
November 12 – "Austra-laise" awarded a special prize in The Bulletin National Song Competition, and published in magazine

1909
February 24 – last issue (number 154) of The Gadfly

1910
September 28 – James Dennis, the father of CJD, dies

1913
July – publication of BackBlock Ballads and Other Verses
October – CJD introduced to John Garibaldi Roberts and his wife by R.H. Croll
December 20 – first CJD work published in Herald

1914
July – CJD living in Sydney
September 5 – CJD returns to Melbourne

1915
January 28 – CJD appointed to the Navy Office as a clerk
March 23 – CJD writes to publisher George Robertson regarding publishing "The Sentimental Bloke"
October 9 – The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke is published for the first time

1916
February 21 – CJD appointed as secretary to Senator E.J. Russell
February 24 – falls out of moving tram in Collins Street and is badly injured
October 9 – The Moods of Ginger Mick is published for the first time

1917
March – publication of The Glugs of Gosh
April – publication of Doreen
July – CJD marries Olive Herron in Melbourne

1918
March – publication of Digger Smith
September – publication of BackBlock Ballads and Later Verses

1919
publication of Jim of the Hills

1921
publication of A Book for Kids Later republished as Roundabout in 1935.

1922
May 12 – CJD is announced in Herald as commencing a daily column
Dennis makes regular poetry contributions to the Herald until his death in 1938.

1924
publication of Rose of Spadgers

1935
publication of The Singing Garden
English Poet Laureate John Masefield visits C.J. Dennis at his home “Arden” in Toolangi, Victoria

1938
June 22 – CJD dies in hospital in Melbourne at the age of 61
June 23 – CJD is buried in Box Hill Cemetery, Melbourne

1967
November 25 – death of Hal Gye

1968
October 19 – death of Mrs Olive Dennis