• 1890
  • Agatha Christie (nee Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller) is born September 15 in Torquay in Devon, England, to Frederick Alvah Miller and Clarissa Boehmer.
  • Vincent van Gogh dies.
  • 1912
  • Agatha is 22.
  • Agatha meets Lieutenant Archie Christie.
  • The Titanic sinks.
  • 1914
  • Agatha is 24.
  • Agatha marries Archie Christie.
  • World War I begins in Europe.
  • 1916
  • Agatha is 26.
  • Agatha writes her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles.
  • 1919
  • Agatha is 29.
  • Agatha gives birth to a daughter, Rosalind.
  • The Treaty of Versailles is signed.
  • 1920
  • Agatha is 30.
  • A publisher accepts The Mysterious Affair at Styles.
  • 19th Amendment passed in U.S., giving American women the right to vote.
  • 1926
  • Agatha is 36.
  • Agatha's mother dies.
  • Archie Christie leaves Agatha for another woman.
  • 1927
  • Agatha is 37.
  • Charles A. Lindbergh is the first man to make a solo flight over the Atlantic ocean.
  • 1928
  • Agatha is 38.
  • Women in Britain gain voting rights.
  • Agatha takes her first trip on the Orient Express.
  • 1930
  • Agatha is 40.
  • Agatha meets and marries archaeologist Max Mallowan.
  • 1931
  • Agatha is 41.
  • Agatha's journey on the Orient Express is stopped by floods in Istanbul.
  • 1932
  • Agatha is 42.
  • Baby Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr. is kidnapped in New Jersey.
  • 1934
  • Agatha is 44.
  • Murder on the Orient Express is first published.
  • Agatha begins writing novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott.
  • 1952
  • Agatha is 62.
  • The Mousetrap begins its run at the Ambassador Theatre.
  • 1955
  • Agatha is 65.
  • Agatha is awarded the first Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award.
  • American Jonas Salk develops polio vaccine.
  • 1964
  • Agatha is 74.
  • Agatha dines with Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace.
  • 1968
  • Agatha is 78.
  • Agatha becomes Lady Mallowan when Max is knighted.
  • 1971
  • Agatha is 81.
  • Agatha is appointed Dame of the British Empire.
  • 1974
  • Murder on the Orient Express is adapted into a successful feature film starring Sean Connery, Lauren Bacall and Albert Finney as Hercule Poirot. The film is nominated for six Academy Awards, winning Best Supporting Actress for Ingrid Bergman. It set a box office record for British films.
  • 1976
  • Agatha Christie dies. She is 86.
  • 1993
  • Agatha Christie Society founded, chaired by Mathew Prichard.
  • 2000
  • Agatha Christie named "Crime Writer of the Century" at a U.S. Crime Convention.
  • 2001
  • Alfred Molina (Chocolat), Meredith Baxter (Murder on the 17th Green), Leslie Caron (Chocolat) and Peter Strauss (Joan of Arc) star in AGATHA CHRISTIE'S MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS, a contemporary adaptation of the renowned Agatha Christie whodunit concerning the murder of a wealthy American businessman aboard the Orient Express en route from Istanbul to London.

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