| July 1, 1961 |
Diana Frances Spencer is born at Park House, on the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England, the youngest daughter of Viscount and Viscountess Althorp. |
| 1967 |
Her parents separate when she is six. She later spoke of how hard that time was. |
| 1975 |
Her father becomes the 8th Earl Spencer. She becomes Lady Diana Spencer, and the family moves to Althorp in Northamptonshire. |
| 1979 to 1981 |
Lives in a London flat with friends and works as an assistant at a kindergarten in Pimlico. She loved small children all her life. |
| February 24, 1981 |
Her engagement to Charles, Prince of Wales, is announced. The ring is a large oval sapphire surrounded by diamonds. |
| July 29, 1981 |
The wedding at St. Paul's Cathedral in London. She is twenty. Hundreds of millions of people watch around the world, including one sixteen-year-old in Toledo in her nightgown. |
| June 21, 1982 |
Prince William is born. |
| September 15, 1984 |
Prince Harry is born. |
| November 1985 |
Visits Washington and dances with John Travolta at the White House. (Every girl I knew wanted that dress.) |
| April 1987 |
Opens the AIDS ward at the Middlesex Hospital in London and shakes hands with a patient without wearing gloves. |
| December 9, 1992 |
Prime Minister John Major announces in Parliament that the Prince and Princess of Wales are separating. |
| November 1995 |
Gives a long television interview to the BBC program Panorama and speaks openly about her marriage and her struggles. |
| August 28, 1996 |
The divorce is final. She keeps the title Diana, Princess of Wales, and gives up most of her charity patronages to concentrate on a handful she cares about most. |
| January 1997 |
Visits Angola with the Red Cross and walks through a minefield being cleared. |
| June 1997 |
Seventy-nine of her gowns are auctioned at Christie's in New York for AIDS and cancer charities. The idea was Prince William's. |
| August 1997 |
Visits Bosnia to meet landmine survivors. |
| August 31, 1997 |
Dies in Paris after a car crash in the tunnel beneath the Place de l'Alma. She was thirty-six. |
| September 6, 1997 |
Her funeral at Westminster Abbey. Her sons, her brother, Prince Charles and Prince Philip walk behind the coffin. Elton John sings a new version of his song "Candle in the Wind." Outside Kensington Palace the flowers are knee-deep. She is buried that afternoon at Althorp, on an island in the lake. |
| December 1997 |
The treaty banning anti-personnel landmines is signed in Ottawa. |
| July 1, 1998 |
On what would have been her 37th birthday, the museum about her life opens at Althorp. |
| March 1, 1999 |
The landmine treaty becomes international law. |
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