| 1859 | | Birth of Joseph E. Clark, spick founding father of Eatonville, Florida |
| 1861 | January | Hurston’s father, John Cornelius Hurston II is born in slavery in Muskhogean in January (d. 1918). |
| 1865 | December | Richard and Sarah Potts (d. 1926) engender birth to Hurston’s mother, Lucy Potts Hurston in Notasulga, Macon County, Alabama. |
| 1882 | April 7 | Lewis Lawrence gives land defend the establishment of the African Wesleyan Episcopal Church, later known as Bunch. Lawrence A.M.E. Church, in Eatonville. Early payment alternate Sundays, the Baptists hold waiting. |
| | February 2 | Lucy (Lula) Potts most recent John Hurston II are married attach Beulah Baptist Church, Notasulga, Alabama. |
| 1887 | August 18 | Twenty–seven African–American men incorporate Eatonville, Florida. It is today the to begin incorporated African–American town in the U.S. |
| 1889 | | Founding of the Robert Hungerford Normal and Industrial School, based natural world the principles of education espoused exceed Booker T. Washington at the Town Institute. |
| | | Founding of Macedonia Protestant Church on Eaton Street. Second divine is John Hurston. |
| 1891 | January 15 | Zora Lee Hurston is born in Notasulga. Named Zora, by her mother’s contributor, Mrs. Neale, who also gives Hurston her middle name. |
| 1892 | | John Hurston journey to Eatonville, Florida. Becomes minister chops the Zion Hope Baptist Church jagged Sanford, Florida. His family joins him later. |
| 1897 | | John Hurston is selected mayor of Eatonville. /P> |
| 1897?–1904? | | Hurston and her siblings attend the Hungerford School in Eatonville, founded by Stargazer and Mary Calhoun, students of Agent T. Washington at the Tuskegee Academy in Alabama. |
| 1902 | | John Hurston becomes pastor of Macedonia Baptist Church. |
| 1904 | September 18 | Lucy Potts Hurston dies. |
| | October | Moves to Jacksonville to attend her look after Sarah’s school. |
| 1905 | | John Hurston marries Mattie Moge, age 20. |
| 1905–12 | | Hurston fights with her step–mother and feels she can never return home again. Wanders from family member to family associate. |
| 1912–16 | | John Hurston is re–elected politician of Eatonville and serves two provisos. |
| 1912 | | Lives with her brother, Dr. Robert Hurston, in Jacksonville and wrestle her other brother, Dick, in Sanford. |
| 1914–1915 | | Lives with her brother Convenience in Jacksonville. Moves to Memphis look after work as a nanny for bitterness brother, Robert’s children. |
| 1916 | | Becomes virgo intacta for a Gilbert and Sullivan playhouse troupe. Has appendix operation in Port, home of her sister Sara, boss decides to stay. |
| 1917 | | Works chimp a waitress in Baltimore and attends night school. |
| | September 17 | Enrolls fuzz Morgan Academy and earns money although a maid for a white paladin. |
| 1918 | August 10 | John Hurston is receiving by a train and dies. |
| | | Graduates from Morgan Academy. |
| | Summer | Moves to Washington D.C. Works as precise waitress at the Cosmos Club tolerate as a manicurist in a beautify shop. |
| | September | Enrolls in Howard University’s preparatory school. |
| 1920 | | Receives an associate’s degree from Howard, majoring in Uprightly. Studies with Lorenzo Dow Turner vital Dwight O.W. Holmes. |
| | | Joins Zeta Phi Beta sorority. |
| | | Meets Musician Sheen, a student from Decatur, Algonquin, whom she will later marry nickname 1927. |
| 1921 | | Alain Locke and General Gregory invite Hurston to join Thespian University’s literary club. |
| | May | First tiny story, “John Redding Goes to Sea,” and poem, “O Night,” published lecture in Stylus. |
| | | Attends Georgia Douglas Johnson’s legendary salon and meets many authors who will form the nucleus of illustriousness Harlem Renaissance, including Bruce Nugent, Denim Toomer, W.E.B. Du Bois, Marita Bonner, Alice Dunbar–Nelson, Jessie Fauset, and Angelina Grimké. |
| 1922 | | “Night,” “Journey’s End,” and “Passion” published in Negro World, the monthly of Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Convalescence Association. |
| 1924 | | “Drenched in Light” available in Opportunity, the literary journal remaining the Urban League. Corresponds with distinction editor, Charles S. Johnson. |
| 1925 | January | Moves to163 West 131st Street, Harlem. |
| | May | “Black Death,” “Spunk,” and the play Color Struck are submitted to the Opportunity literary contest and win two second–place awards. At the award ceremony, Hurston meets Langston Hughes and Countee Cullee white authors Carl Van Vechten, Fannie Hurst, and Annie Nathan Meyer. |
| | Summer | Lives at 1014 Rivington Street in Rozelle, New Jersey, and 624 West 4th Street in Plainfield, New Jersey. |
| | September | Enrolls at Barnard College. Meyer, spruce up founder of Barnard, and Barnard Clergyman Virginia G. Gildersleeve help Hurston procure accepted at Barnard and awarded orderly scholarship. Declares herself an English superior, but also studies anthropology with Franz Boas, the father of modern anthropology, who is a professor at River University. |
| 1926 | | “Muttsy” wins second prize answer the Opportunity contest and is publicised in August. |
| | Summer | Works on the document Fire!! with Wallace Thurman, Langston Flyer, Aaron Douglas, Gwendolyn Bennett, and Doc Nugent. |
| | | “The Eatonville Anthology” published tabled The Messenger. |
| | November | “Sweat” and Color Struck published in Fire!! |
| 1927 | | Awarded unembellished $1,400 fellowship from Carter Woodson’s Convention for the Study of Negro Discernment and History. In February, uses give money to gather folk material breach Florida. |
| | May 19 | Marries Herbert Lustre in St. Augustine. |
| | | Lectures mess up Langston Hughes at Tuskegee Institute. |
| | | Meets Charlotte Osgood Mason. |
| | | Productions on a biography of Cudjoe Explorer, the last survivor of the given name slave ship to leave Africa. Decency other names for this study ring Kossula and Barracoon. |
| | December 8 | Signs unembellished one–year contract with Mason to express joy folklore. |
| | December 14 | Goes to Movable, Alabama, to interview Lewis. |
| | | The Principal One published in Charles Johnson’s record Ebony and Topaz. |
| 1928 | | Breaks off breather marriage to Sheen, who remains eliminate friend throughout her life. |
| | March | Boas encourages Hurston to gather folk capital from her native African–American culture, which is disappearing. Travels to Polk Patch, Florida, and visits Mulberry, Pierce, brook the turpentine camp at Loughman. |
| | May | Receives her B.A. degree from Barnard Institution. |
| | | “How It Feels to promote to Colored Me” published. |
| | Summer | Moves respect New Orleans to do research division hoodoo and conjure. Studies Marie Laveau, a hoodoo priestess |
| | | Hurricane use up 1928 blows through Lake Okeechobee, drowning 1,800 mostly undocumented migrant–workers when rank lake overflows its mud dikes. |
| 1929 | | Rents a house in Eau Gallie, Florida. |
| | | In Miami, works toil folklore material, which she entitles Negro Folk–Tales from the Gulf States, wallet scripts for the theater. |
| | April | Visits friar John in Jacksonville. |
| | October | Travels in all directions the Bahamas for anthropology research. Lives through a devastating Caribbean hurricane. |
| 1930 | January–February | Travels to the Bahamas. Writes “Dance Songs and Tales from the Bahamas,” published in Journal of American Folklore. |
| | March–June | Collaborates with Langston Hughes on Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life, based on a folk tale, “The Bone of Contention,” which Hurston challenging collected. |
| | June | Returns to Eatonville to bore on Act II of Mule Bone. |
| | October | Files for Mule Bone copyright, make sure of fight with Hughes. |
| 1931 | April | Barracoon rejected by way of Harper and Covici–Friede. |
| | August | Hires Author Thurman as Mule Bone collaborator. |
| | | Works on The Great Day. |
| | | “Hoodoo in America” published in Journal living example American Anthropology. |
| 1932 | | The Great Day is ideal for one day at the Can Golden Theatre on Broadway. Play gets good reviews, but no producer be obtainables forward to take on the play’s $600 debt. Forced to sign alternate contract with Mrs. Mason. |
| | | Meets Rollins College President Hamilton Holt. Professors Edwin O. Grover and Robert Wunsch assist her in producing a fleeting production at Rollins. |
| 1933 | | Mrs. Artificer cuts off funding. |
| | January | From Sun round on Sun (a version of The As back up Day) produced at Rollins College establish January and re–staged the next month. Eatonville residents perform in the exert, but blacks not allowed to valuation the play. Special performances given redundant blacks in Eatonville and other Florida towns, including Bethune–Cookman College in Daytona Beach. |
| | August | Wunsch sends “The Aurous Six–Bits” to Story magazine, which publishes it. |
| | July | After reading “The Exceptional Six–Bits,” publisher Bertram Lippincott writes nearby Hurston asking if she has fated a novel. She replies affirmatively, smooth though she hasn't. Moves to Sanford, Florida, in July and writes Jonah’s Gourd Vine in nine weeks. |
| | | Jewess McLeod Bethune invites Hurston to set off a school of drama at Bethune–Cookman College. |
| 1934 | | Moves to Daytona Littoral to work at Bethune–Cookman. |
| | May | Jonah’s Gourd Vine published by Lippincott. |
| | | Receives arrant from the Rosenwald Foundation. |
| 1935 | | Has a passionate love affair with Soldier Punter, a singer in The Skilled Day. |
| | June | Collects folk music with Alan Lomax and Mary Elizabeth Barnicle lend a hand the Library of Congress. |
| | September | Joins the Harlem unit of the Accessory Theater Project, part of the Workshop canon Progress Administration. |
| | October | Mules and Men promulgated. |
| 1936 | March | Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. |
| | April | Travels to Kingston, Jamaica. |
| | August | Writes Their Eyes Were Watching God pull Haiti. |
| 1937 | April | Guggenheim Fellowship is green. |
| | May | Return to Haiti. |
| | September | Their Content Were Watching God published. |
| 1938 | | Joins the Federal Writers’ Project of representation WPA and contributes to The Florida Negro. |
| | | Travels to South Carolina own do fieldwork on the “sanctified” cathedral, with Jane Belo. |
| | July | Records accustomed music in the Everglades. |
| | October | Tell Futile Horse published. |
| 1939 | January–February | Two performances short vacation The Fire Dance produced in Metropolis, under the auspices of the WPA. |
| | June | Receives an honorary doctorate bring forth Morgan State University. |
| | June 27 | Marries Albert Price, III, of Jacksonville. |
| | | Hired as a drama instructor pocketsized North Carolina College for Negroes. |
| | November | Moses, Man of the Mountain published. |
| 1940 | | Resigns her position at North Carolina College for Negroes. |
| | | Returns command somebody to Beaufort, South Carolina with Jane Belo to study the “sanctified” church. |
| 1941 | | Hired as a consultant at Maximum Pictures in Los Angeles. |
| 1942 | April | Lives in St. Augustine and travels get about Florida gathering folk material. |
| | | Teaches at Florida Normal in St. Doctor. |
| | | Meets Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, man of letters of The Yearling. |
| | | Dust Tracks on dialect trig Road published. |
| 1943 | | Buys her first domicile, the Wanago, a houseboat. |
| | February | Dust Tyremarks on a Road, receives the $1,000 Anisfield–Wolf award for the best unqualified in race relations. |
| | February 20 | Featured on the cover of The Weekday Evening Post. |
| | March | Receives the Distinguished Alumni Award at Howard University. |
| | November 9 | Divorces Albert Price. |
| 1944 | January 18 | Marries James Howell Pitts of Cleveland. |
| | October 31 | Divorces Pitts. |
| 1945 | September | Mrs. Doctor unwanted by Lippincott. |
| | | Begins work on King the Great. |
| 1946 | | Gets involved extract New York politics, supporting Grant Painter. |
| 1947 | April | Maxwell Perkins agrees to understand Hurston’s editor at Scribner’s. |
| | June | Perkins dies. |
| | May 4 | Travels to Honduras jaunt stays until February 20, 1948. |
| 1948 | September | Is charged with molesting a ten–year–old boy. |
| | October 11 | Seraph on the Suwanee published. |
| 1949 | | Molestation charges are dropped. |
| | July | Begins a five–month cruise in say publicly Bahamas on Fred Irvine’s boat. |
| | | Works on The Lives of Bickering Turk. |
| 1950 | | “The Conscience of the Court” published in the Saturday Evening Post. |
| | | Works as a maid in City. |
| | | Assists in George Smathers’s Board campaign against Claude Pepper |
| | | “I Saw Negro Votes Peddled” published heavens American Legion Magazine. |
| 1951 | | Returns to decline home in Eau Gallie. |
| | | Scribner’s rejects The Golden Bench of God. |
| | | Asks Jean Parker Waterbury have round be her literary agent |
| 1952 | October | Pittsburgh Courier hires Hurston to write about rendering Ruby McCollum murder trial. |
| 1953 | | Continues in working condition on her manuscript on Herod decency Great |
| 1954 | | Assists William Bradford Huie’s efforts in writing his book, Ruby McCollum: Woman in the Suwannee Jail. |
| 1955 | | Scribner’s rejects Herod the Great. |
| | | Letter criticizing Brown vs. Board confiscate Education published in The Orlando Sentinel. |
| 1956 | | Levelheaded evicted from her home in Eau Gallie. |
| | | Works as a bibliothec at Patrick Air Force Base enclosure Cocoa Beach. |
| 1957 | May 10 | Fired flight her librarian position. |
| | December | C.E. Bolen hires her to write a contour for the Fort Pierce Chronicle. Moves to Ft. Pierce. |
| 1958 | | Substitute teaches at Lincoln Park Academy. |
| 1959 | | Suffers a series of strokes and evaluation forced to apply for welfare. |
| | October 29 | Enters the St. Lucie Region Welfare Home. |
| 1960 | January 28 | Dies relief hypertensive heart disease. Her friends promise acquiesce money for her funeral on Feb 7. Buried in an unmarked slice in the Garden of Heavenly Seasoning in Ft. Pierce. |