1929 Father's clothing business declines because of the Depression, forcing the family to move to Brooklyn.

1933 Miller graduates from high school, but is rejected from Cornell University and University of Michigan. Works at a variety of jobs and writes his first short story In Memoriam depicting an aging salesman. Reapplies to University of Michigan and is granted a conditional acceptance after writing to Dean that he is now "a much more serious fellow."

1934 Studies journalism at University of Michigan where he becomes night editor of Michigan Daily. Studies playwriting under Professor Kenneth T. Rowe.

1936 First play, No Villain, is produced and wins University of Michigan's Avery Hopwood Award.

1937 Receives second Avery Hopwood Award for Honors at Dawn, but the play is never produced. Receives the Theatre Guild's Bureau of New Plays Award for They Too Arise (revision of No Villain).

1938 Comes in second for Avery Hopwood Award for The Great Disobedience, which is produced at University of Michigan. Graduates and moves to New York.

1939 Completes another revision of They Too Arise (now entitled The Grass Still Grows). Writes scripts for Federal Theatre Project until it is closed by Congress. He-then writes radio plays for CBS and NBC.

1940 Completes The Golden Years. Marries Mary Grace Slattery. They will have two children, Jane (1944) and Robert (1947).

1941 Completes two radio plays, The Pussycat and the Expert Plumber Who Was a Man and William Ireland's Confession. Also works at various odd jobs.

1942 Completes radio play, The Four Freedoms.

1943 Completes The Half-Bridge.

1944 Tours army camps gathering material for screenplay, The Story of G.I. Joe, and book, Situation Normal. First Broadway production, The Man Who Had All the Luck, closes after four performances, but wins Theatre Guild National Award and is published in Cross-Section: A Collection of New American Writing.

1945 Publishes first novel, Focus, on anti-semitism. Completes radio play, Grandpa and the Statue, and a one-act play, That They May Win. Attacks Ezra Pound for his pro-Fascist activities.

1947 All My Sons opens on Broadway and wins New York Drama Critics' Circle Award. Auctions off manuscript on behalf of Progressive Citizens of America. Becomes involved in variety of anti-Fascist and pro-Communist activities.

1949 Death of a Salesman (originally entitled The Inside of His Head) opens in New York with Lee J. Cobb in the title role. Jo Mielziner designs the innovative set. Wins the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award. Miller publishes the first of his many theatrical and political essays.  [See a picture of where Arthur Miller wrote Death of a Salesman]

1950 Adaptation of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People opens; but closes after thirty-six performances.

1953 The Crucible opens in New York to mixed reviews that differ on play's relevance to McCarthyism. Play wins Antoinette Perry and Donaldson Awards.

1954 Denied passport by State Department to attend opening of The Crucible in Brussels because of his alleged support of the Communist movement. Miller supporters claim this move is a retaliation for the parallels between McCarthy era tactics and the Salem witch trials evident in The Crucible.

1955 Contracts to write a film script for New York City Youth Board, but is dropped from film after a condemnation of his leftist activities appears in a New York City newspaper. A Memory of Two Mondays and the one-act version of A View from the Bridge produced as double-bill in New York.

1956 Two-act version of A View from the Bridge opens in London. Testifies before the House Un-American Activities Committee and refuses to name names of others attending meetings organized by Communist sympathizers. Divorces Mary Slattery and marries Marilyn Monroe.

1957 Indicted on charges of contempt of Congress for refusing to name suspected Communists. Publishes Collected Plays.

1958 US Court of Appeals reverses contempt of Congress conviction. Filming begins of Miller's The Misfits, starring Marilyn Monroe.

1959 Awarded Gold Medal for Drama by National Institute of Arts and Letters.

1961 The Misfits released. Divorces Marilyn Monroe. Opera versions of A View from the Bridge and The Crucible produced.

1962 Marries Ingeborg Morath, an Austrian-born photographer. Daughter, Rebecca (1963).

1964 After the Fall and Incident at Vichy open in New York.

1965 Elected president of PEN (Poets, Essayists and Novelists), an international literary association.

1967 Publishes I Don't Need You Any More, a collection of short stories.

1968 The Price opens on Broadway. Serves as a delegate to the Democratic Party National Convention.

1969 Publishes In Russia (travel journal) with photographs by his wife, Inge Morath. Films The Reason Why, an anti-war allegory. Refuses to be published in Greece to show his opposition to the government's oppression of writers.

1970 Two one-act plays, Fame and The Reason Why, performed at New York's New Theatre Workshop. The Soviet Union, in response to In Russia, bans all of Miller's works.

1971 The Portable Arthur Miller published. The Price and Memory of Two Mondays appear on television. Helps win release of Brazilian director/playwright Augusto Boal.

1972 The Creation of the World and Other Business produced in New York, but closes after twenty performances. Protests oppression of artists worldwide - very active politically through the 1970s. Permission granted for all-black production of Death of a Salesman in Baltimore. Revival of The Crucible in New York.

1973 Revival of Death of a Salesman in Philadelphia - first time the play is performed within one hundred miles of Broadway since 1949.

1974 Up from Paradise (musical version of The Creation of the World and Other Business) produced in Ann Arbor, Michigan. After the Fall appears on television.

1975 Revival of Death of a Salesman in New York at Circle in the Square.

1977 The Archbishop's Ceiling has limited run in Washington, DC. Publishes In the Country (travel journal) with photographs by Inge Morath.

1978 Visits China. The Theater Essays of Arthur Miller published. Fame appears on television. Protests the arrests of dissidents in Soviet Union.

1979 Publishes Chinese Encounters (travel journal) with photographs by Inge Morath.

1980 The American Clock opens in New York. In spite of its success in South Carolina, the play closes in New York after a few performances. Playing for Time, adaptation of Fania Fenelon's book, appears on television.

1981 Arthur Miller's Collected Plays, Vol. II is published.

1982 Two one-act plays, Some Kind of Love Story and Elegy for a Lady, open in New Haven.

1983 Directs Death of a Salesman in Beijing with Chinese cast. Revival of A View from the Bridge in New York. Revision and revival of Up from Paradise in New York.

1984 Publishes Salesman in Beijing with photographs by Inge Morath. Death of a Salesman is revived on Broadway with Dustin Hoffman in lead role. Involved in dispute with the Wooster Group over their unauthorized use of scenes from The Crucible for their production of LSD.

1985 Revival of The Price opens successfully on Broadway. Hoffman version of Death of a Salesman produced on television. Playing for Time produced in Washington, DC.

1986 The American Clock and The Archbishop's Ceiling produced in London. Revival of The Crucible in New York and Washington, DC.

1987 Timebends: A Life (Miller's autobiography) published. Danger: Memory! (two one-act plays, I Can't Remember Anything and Clara) produced in New York. All My Sons appears on television.

1989 Revival of The Crucible in New Haven. Opening of The Arthur Miller Centre, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.

1990 Revival of The Crucible in New York and London. Screenplay for motion picture Everybody Wins.

1991 The Ride Down Mount Morgan opens in London.

1992 Homely Girl, A Life published.

1993 The Last Yankee opens in New York. Continuing a life-long commitment to the freedom of writers, Miller contributes to volume on censorship entitled Censored Books: Critical Viewpoints.

1994 Broken Glass opens in New York and London.

1995 Plain Girl published in England. Eightieth birthday marked by Gala Performance at the Royal National Theatre in London and Gala Dinner at the Arthur Miller Centre.

1996 Film version of The Crucible released.

1987 Publishes autobiography Timebends: A Life.

1998 The Ride Down Mount Morgan opens at The Public Theatre in New York City.

1999 Death of a Salesman opens on Broadway  with Brian Dennehy in the lead role. It opens at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre on February 10th, exactly 50 years to the day of the Broadway opening.

2002 He wins the Principe de Asturias literary prize. His wife Inge Morath dies.

2004 In December he announces plans to marry Agnes Barley, a 34-year-old artist.

2005 on February 10, Arthur Asher Miller dies at home in Roxbury, Connecticut.

2005 in May, the West End production of Death of a Salesman opens.