Hermann Kafka, father of Franz Kafka, was born. He was described as a dominant and successful businessman, establishing himself as an independent retailer in Prague.

Julie Kafka, mother of Franz Kafka, was born. She was better educated than her husband and came from a prosperous brewing family in Poděbrady.

Franz Kafka, a German-speaking Bohemian Jewish novelist and writer, was born in Prague. He is known for his works that blend realism and the fantastic, often exploring themes of alienation and existential anxiety.

Kafka begins attending the German-language elementary school in Prague, marking the start of his formal education in a German-speaking environment.

Kafka enrolls in university, continuing his academic journey and furthering his education.

On October 23, 1902, Franz Kafka meets Max Brod, who would later become a close friend and important figure in Kafka's life and literary legacy.

In 1904, Franz Kafka was working on a novel titled 'The Child and the City', which was subsequently lost. He also wrote the first version of 'Description of a Struggle'.

Kafka meets Max Brod who is giving a lecture on Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. Brod argues in favor of Schopenhauer over Nietzsche, leading to a disagreement with Kafka. Despite the argument, they eventually become lifelong friends.

Franz Kafka receives his law degree from Charles-Ferdinand and spends a year as an unpaid intern in the criminal courts.

On July 15, 1908, Franz Kafka resigns from his clerk job at Assicurazioni Generali, an Italian insurance company in Prague, due to the boring nature of the job and the difficulty in balancing it with his writing.

After resigning from Assicurazioni Generali, Kafka joined the Worker's Accident Insurance Institute on July 29, 1908. This job allowed him more time for writing and involved assessing compensation for industrial workers.

Franz Kafka begins exploring his Jewish identity and literary calling by attending lectures and theater performances focusing on Jewish issues. During this time, he also starts writing intensely and embarks on the creation of his novel Amerika.

Kafka assists his brother-in-law in managing an asbestos factory in Prague, gaining practical experience in a different field outside of his literary pursuits.

Kafka expresses his observation to Max Brod about the modesty of injured workers who come to the Institute for help instead of resorting to violence. He questions their approach of begging instead of protesting.

On August 13, 1912, Kafka met Felice Bauer, a woman who would become significant in his life. This meeting marked the beginning of a complex relationship.

Kafka meets Felice Bauer, his future fiancee, at the residence of his friend Max Brod. This encounter marks the beginning of a romantic relationship between Kafka and Bauer.

On the night of 22 September 1912, Kafka wrote the story 'The Judgment' and dedicated it to Felice Bauer. The story is considered Kafka's breakthrough work, dealing with the troubled relationship of a son and his dominant father.

Kafka's first book, 'Contemplation,' which is a collection of his short stories, is officially published, marking a significant milestone in his literary career.

Kafka expresses his inner turmoil and desire to free himself from the tremendous world inside his head in a diary entry from June 21, 1913.

In 1913, Franz Kafka published the short stories 'The Judgment' and 'The Stoker.' These works are significant in Kafka's literary career.

On January 8, 1914, Franz Kafka expressed his feelings of alienation from Judaism and Jewish life in his diary, questioning his connection to his own identity.

Kafka gives a speech about the Yiddish language to a group of assimilated German-speaking Jews who have prejudices against their Yiddish-speaking cousins.

Kafka becomes engaged to Felice Bauer for the first time after going to Berlin.

On June 11, 1914, Franz Kafka started planning his novel Das Schloss (The Castle), but he did not begin writing it until January 27, 1922. The novel focuses on the struggles of the protagonist, K., against the mysterious authorities of a castle.

Kafka travels to Berlin to end his engagement with Felice Bauer.

On December 21, 1915, Franz Kafka's famous work 'The Metamorphosis' was published. This novella explores themes of alienation and transformation.

Franz Kafka and Felice Bauer get engaged for the second time.

In December 1917, Franz Kafka starts coughing up blood, which is the first sign of tuberculosis, a disease that will eventually lead to his death. He takes a break from work and is cared for by his sister Ottilie.

In his letter to his father, Kafka expressed his feelings of failure to establish himself in marriage and fatherhood, attributing it to the prohibitive father figure who instilled in him a sense of impotence.

In 1920, Kafka stays in a sanitorium north of Prague in an attempt to recover from tuberculosis. He also becomes engaged to Julie Wohryzková, but the relationship ends. Kafka's strained relationship with his father leads him to write the Letter to His Father.

In 1921, Kafka attempted to break off his relationship with Milena, leading to his return to a sanitarium. Milena visited him in Prague, where he showed her his diaries.

In July 1922, Franz Kafka retired from his position at the Worker's Accident Insurance Institute for the Kingdom of Bohemia due to reasons of ill health. This marked the end of his career in the insurance sector.

During a vacation in 1923, Kafka met Dora Diamant, a kindergarten teacher, and moved to Berlin to live with her, working on stories like 'A Hunger Artist'.

On 20 April 1924, the Berliner Börsen-Courier published Kafka's essay on Adalbert Stifter.

During his holiday at the Baltic Sea, Franz Kafka meets a Polish woman named Dora Diamant. They fall in love, and their relationship continues until Kafka's death. He manages to write a few more short stories during this time.

Kafka's body was brought back to Prague and buried in the New Jewish Cemetery in Prague-Žižkov on 11 June 1924.

Der Process, one of Kafka's incomplete works, was finished and published by Max Brod in 1925 in Verlag Die Schmiede.

Kafka's novel The Castle is published.

Kafka's novel Amerika is published.

In 1930, Edwin and Willa Muir translated the first German edition of 'Das Schloss', which was published as 'The Castle' in England and the United States, sparking a surge in Kafka's popularity.

In 1933, Kafka's literary executor Max Brod and the Czech cultural attache in Berlin, Camille Hoffman, made the first attempt to find Kafka's missing literary treasure.

Max Brod took many of Kafka's papers, which remain unpublished, with him in suitcases to Palestine when he fled there in 1939.

In 1941, a new edition of Kafka's work, including a homage by Thomas Mann, led to a surge in Kafka's popularity in the United States during the late 1940s.

Kafka's sisters, Gabriele, Valerie, and Ottilie, were victims of the Holocaust during World War II. They were deported and did not survive the war, reflecting the tragic impact of the Holocaust on Kafka's family.

In 1961, Schocken Books published 'Parables and Paradoxes', a bilingual edition by Nahum N. Glatzer, which included selected writings by Kafka drawn from notebooks, diaries, letters, and short fictional works.

In 1963, a conference held in Liblice, Czechoslovakia, reevaluated Franz Kafka's portrayal of bureaucracy and his political significance, sparking debates on whether he was a political writer.

After Brod's death in 1968, Kafka's unpublished papers were left to his secretary Esther Hoffe. Hoffe released or sold some papers, but most were kept by her daughters, leading to a legal battle over their ownership.

Asteroid 3412 Kafka, approximately 6 kilometers in diameter, was discovered on January 10, 1983 by American astronomers Randolph Kirk and Donald Rudy at Palomar Observatory in California, United States. It was named after Kafka by them.

Esther Hoffe sold the original manuscript of Der Process for US$2 million in 1988 to the German Literary Archive Museum of Modern Literature in Marbach am Neckar.

With the reunification of Germany in 1990 and the subsequent opening of archives in former Communist Central and Eastern European states, the renewed search for Kafka's missing papers became possible.

Sander Gilman's book 'Franz Kafka, the Jewish Patient' explores the reasons behind Kafka's hypochondriacal and suicidal tendencies, as well as his incorporation of Jewish male stereotypes into his self-image and writing.

In January 1997, the Kafka Project was initiated with a consent letter to conduct the official search for Kafka's missing papers on behalf of the Kafka Estate in London.

In March 1998, the SDSU Research Foundation became the new academic home and non-profit fiscal receiver for the Kafka Project, which expanded to include the missing papers of Dora Diamant.

From June 1 to September 30, 1998, a team of volunteers and assistants from the United States, England, and Germany conducted research in archives, libraries, civil record offices, and cultural institutions as part of the Kafka Project.

In September 1998, the German State archives officially classified the Kafka Project as 'official scientific research' and assigned an archivist to the case.

A committee ranked Kafka's novels, Der Process and Das Schloss, as the second and ninth most significant German-language novels of the 20th century.

In 2001, Kafka's hairbrush was discovered in Israel, adding to the collection of Kafka-related artifacts.

Based on the results of the Kafka Project, the book 'Kafka's Last Love: The Mystery of Dora Diamant' was published in the US and UK in 2003, leading to multiple editions and translations in various languages.

In 2004, three original Kafka letters were found in private hands in California, with copies made for the Kafka Critical Edition Archive at Wuppertal.

In summer 2008, a month-long Kafka Project research trip in Poland aimed to collaborate with the University of Silesia and the National Library in Silesia, but did not yield further information on captured German documents in the eastern territories.

In 2010, a Tel Aviv family court ruled that Kafka's papers must be released, leading to a dispute between the Hoffe family and the National Library of Israel over their ownership.

In October 2012, the Tel Aviv Family Court ruled that Kafka's papers belonged to the National Library of Israel, settling the dispute over their ownership.

In December 2016, the Israeli Supreme Court upheld the decision that Kafka's papers were the property of the National Library of Israel.

In 2023, the first unexpurgated edition of Kafka's diaries was published in English, revealing previously expunged content by Max Brod.