1879: April 14, James Branch Cabell born at 101 East Franklin Street, Richmond, Virginia.
1894: Matriculated College of William and Mary at age fifteen.
1898: Graduated from college, where he had taught French and Greek as an undergraduate.
1898—1900: Worked as a newspaper reporter in New York.
1901: Reporter in Richmond; first stories accepted for publication; suspected of murder in Richmond.
1902: Seven stories published in national magazines.
1904: The Eagle's Shadow.
1905: The Line of Love.
1907: Branchiana (genealogy); Gallantry.
1909: The Cords of Vanity; Chivalry.
1911: Branch of Abingdom (genealogy).
1911—1913: Employed in office of the Branch (his uncle's) coal mines in West Virginia
1913: The Soul of Melicent (later title Domnei); November 8, married Priscilla Bradley Shepard.
1915: The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck; August 25, Ballard Hartwell Cabell born; The Major's and Their Marriages (his wife's genealogy).
1916: The Certain Hour; From the Hidden Way.
1917: The Cream of the Jest.
1919: Beyond Life; Jurgen (suppressed January 14, 1920, cleared October 19, 1922).
1920: The Judging of Jurgen.
1921: Figures of Earth; Taboo; Joseph Hergesheimer; The Jewel Merchants; edited October, November, and December issues of the Reviewer.
1922: The Lineage of Lichfield.
1923: The High Place.
1924: Straws and Prayer-Books.
1926: The Silver Stallion; The Music from Behind the Moon.
1927: Something About Eve.
1928: The White Robe; Ballades from the Hidden Way.
1929: Sonnets from Antan; The Way of Ecben.
1927—1930: The Storisende Edition of the The Works of James Branch Cabell with prefaces, in eighteen volumes.
1930: Some of Us; Between Dawn and Sunrise (selections edited by John Macy).
1932: These Restless Heads (dropped James from name).
1933: Special Delivery.
1934: Smirt; Ladies and Gentlemen.
1935: Smith.
1936: Preface to the Past (prefaces from the Storisende Edition).
1937: Smire.
1938: The King Was in His Counting House.
1940: Hamlet Had an Uncle.
1942: The First Gentleman of America.
1943: The St. Johns (with A.J. Hanna).
1946: There Were Two Pirates.
1947: Let Me Lie.
1948: The Witch-Woman.
1949: The Devil's Own Dear Son; March 29, death of Priscilla Bradley Cabell.
1950: June 15, married Margaret Waller Freeman.
1952: Quiet Please.
1955: As I Remember It.
1958: May 5, died at 3201 Monument Avenue, Richmond, Virginia.