1925 - 19 May - Born Malcolm Little at University Hospital in Omaha Nebraska.  The fourth child of the Reverend Earl and Louise Little.  They had eight children in all.  note:  His father was a Baptist minister and a separatist who followed and preached the teachings of Marvin Garvey.

1926 - Little family moves to Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

1928 - Earl Little buys a house in Lansing, Michigan
1929 - 7 Nov. -His family house was set on fire by the Ku Klux Klan.   They then moved to East Lansing, Michigan.
  - Dec - Earl Little builds a new home on the outskirts of East Lansing.

1931 - Jan - Malcolm enrolls in kindergarten at Pleasant Grove Elementary School.
  - 28 Sept - His father was violently beaten to death.  They never proved who did it, but it was allegedly by white supremacists in a local group called the Black Legion.  His skull was bashed in.  Official story is Earl was run over by a street car.

1938 - He was expelled from school and placed in a juvenile detention center in Mason Michigan.  He was quickly enrolled in the local junior high school where he rose to 3rd in his class and was elected class president.

1939 - 9 Jan - Louise has a nervous breakdown and is declared legally insane.  She is committed to the state mental hospital in Kalamazoo.
  - Spring - Malcolm tells his favorite teacher he wants to become a lawyer and is told, "That's no realistic goal for a nigger."
  - August - A social worker recommends Malcolm be placed in a juvenile home, judge John McClellan agrees.

1940 - visited sister Ella in Boston

1941 - Feb - Malcolm moved to Boston and became a shoeshine boy and a soda jerk.  Here he shined the shoes of some of the greatest names ever in music.  (like Duke Ellington) He also worked as a dishwasher and then for the New Haven Railroad.  Begins to get involved with the criminal underworld in Boston.

1943 - Mar - Moves to New York working for the railroad as a sandwich seller on a lounge car.
  - Spring - Fired from railroad for using marijuana and alcohol.  Goes to work in Small's Paradise, a Harlem nightclub favored by the Harlem underworld.  Is soon fired for pimping.
  - 25 Oct - U.S. Army finds Malcolm psychological unfit for military service after threatening to incite black revolts on army bases.  Reasons were, "psychopathic personality inadequate, sexual perversion, psychiatric rejection."

1944 - Jul - Works under the name Jack Carlton as a bar entertainer at The Lobster Pond, a New York nightclub.
  - Oct - Returns to boston works at Sears for 3 weeks, then quits and begins burglary ring.
  - 30 Nov - Indicted for larceny, receives three month suspended sentence and one year probation.
  - 4 Dec - Officially classified 4F by U.S. Army

1945 - Dec - Malcolm and friends Bea and Joyce Caragulian, Sonny Brown, Kora Marderosian, and Jarvis engage in Christmas stealing spree in Boston.

1946 - 12 Jan - Arrested in Boston jewelry store for trying to pick up a stolen watch he'd taken there for repair.
  - 15 Jan - Indicted for carrying firearms.
  - 16 Jan - Indicted for larceny and breaking and entering.
  - 27 Feb - starts serving 10 year prison term at Charlestown Prison.
  - Mar -  Begins reading program in prison library.  Continues to educate himself by reading Latin, philosophy, science, history, archeology, linguistics and finally copying the dictionary word for word.

1947 - Jan - transferred to Concord Reformatory

1948 - Mar - transferred to Norfolk Prison Colony an experimental facility without bars and an excellent library.

1949 - Begins to correspond with Elijah Mohammed and is converted to Islam.

1950 - 23 Mar- transferred back to Charlestown State Prison.

1951 - 29 May - parole denied.

1952 - 7 Aug - paroled from prison.
  - 8 Aug - Goes to Detroit an works in a furniture store managed by his brother Wilfred.
  - 31 Aug - Travels to Chicago with members of Detroit Temple No. 1 to hear Elijah Muhammad speak.  He is given his X from the Nation of Islam.

1953 - Jan - goes to work on the assembly line at Ford.
  - June - Named assistant minister of detroit Temple No. 1, and quits auto plant.
  - Fall - Organizes and becomes first minister of Boston Temple No. 11

1954 - Feb - serves as tour leader for New York Temple No. 7 during NOI Convention in Chicago.
  - Mar - Becomes minister of Philadelphia Temple No. 12
  - June - Becomes minister of New York Temple No. 7.  Preaches 7 nights a week and conduct nightly adult education courses.

1955 - opens Temple No. 15 in Atlanta.
  - 11 Nov - identified as official minister of the Nation of Islam Temple No. 12 in Philadelphia.
  - first hears rumors of Elijah Muhammad's adultery.

1956 - Betty Sanders joins New York Temple, remained Sister Betty X.  She is a nurse and teacher at this temple.

1957 - founds the newspaper Mohammed Speaks the NOI's official paper.
  - 30 Oct - hospitalized in New York due to heart attack
  - Dec - Tells Elijah Muhammed of his intention to marry Sister Betty X.

1958 - 12 Jan - telephones Sister Betty X in New York and proposes marriage, two days later the couple was married in Lansing, Michigan.
  - Nov - first child, a daughter named Attilah (after Attilah the Hun) is born.

1959 - Jul - Malcolm visits Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Syria, and Ghana.  Meets with Nasser of Egypt while in Africa.  Was suppose to visit Mecca but became ill and had to return home.

1960 - 21 Sep - claims to have spoken for 30 minutes with Fidel Castro at the Hotel Theresa in Harlem.
  - 25 Dec - Second daughter Qubilah is born.

1961 - 24 Mar - Debates Walter Carrington of the NAACP at Harvard Law School, in a forum called "The American Negro:  Problems and Solutions"
  - Elijah Mohammed retires to Arizona for health reason, Malcolm X assumes his public duties.
  - Returns from tour of Muslim countries and issues directives that NOI temples be called mosques.

1962 - Appointed national minister for the Nation of Islam.
  - 26 Nov - Martin Luther King Jr's secretary, Dora McDonald, informs Malcolm that King refuses to debate him because "he has always considered his work in a positive action framework rather than engaging in consistent negative debates."

1963 - 1 Dec - despite a directive fro Elijah Muhammed that no Muslim minister comment on the assassination of President Kennedy, Malcolm states that JFK "never foresaw that the chickens would come home to roost so soon."
  - 4 Dec - Elijah Muhammed suspends Malcolm for his comments about JFK.

1964 - 14 Jan - meets with Alex Haley at the International Hotel outside Kennedy Airport.
  - Feb - A Former assistant to Malcolm at Mosque No. 7 informs Malcolm that he was asked by a mosque official to wire Malcolms car with a bomb.
  - 8 Mar - New York Times announces "Malcolm splits with Muhammed."
  - 9 Mar - Malcolm, E. Grant, and J. Warden meet to discuss incorporation of MMI (Muslim Mosque, Incorporated).
  - 10 Mar - NOI member sends Malcolm a letter asking him to return all NOI property including his home.  Malcolm tells Ebony that Black Muslim leaders have "got to kill me.  They can't afford to let me live.... I know where the bodies are buried.  And if they press me, I''ll exhume some."  NOI send certified letter requesting that Malcolm and his family vacate his house because it was purchased by Muslim mosque No. 7.
  - 16 Mar - files certificate of incorporation for MMI
  - 26 Mar - meets Martin Luther King, Jr. face-to-face for the one and only time after a King news conference at the U.S. Capitol.
  - 13 Apr - 21 May - goes on his first pilgrimage to Mecca under the alias Malik El-Shabazz.  Returns El-hajj Malik El-Shabazz.
  - 20 Apr - Malcolm writes a letter stating that many white people he met during his pilgrimage displayed a spirit of unity and brotherhood that provided him with a new, positive insight into race relations.  He felt as though Islam had the power to overcome racial antagonism and obliterate it from the heart of white America.
  - 21 Jun - calls Civil Rights Bill a "farce" and mentions a new group called the Organization of Afro-American Unity
  - 25 Jun - states that the struggle for civil rights is actually a struggle for human rights, on a Boston radio show.
  -7 Jul - reports an attempt on his life to New York police.
  - 9 Jul - Leaves for Cairo.  Meets with eleven heads of state in eleven countries by Oct.
  - 12 Sep - first editions of autobiography published in the Saturday Evening Post
  - 24 Nov - Returns to New York
  - 30 Nov - goes to London
  - Dec - fourth daughter Amiliah is born

1965 - 29 Jan - testifies before Illinois Attorney General, who is investigation NOI activities.
  - 9 Feb - French bar Malcolm from entering the country to speak.
  - 14 Feb - Malcolm home in East Elmhurst, Queens is firebombed at 2:46 A.M.
  - 20 Feb - Told Alex Haley on telephone, "The more I keep thinking about this thing, the things that have been happening lately, I'm not at all sure it's the Muslims.  I know what they can do, and what they can't, and they can't do some of the stuff recently going on."  Earl Grant invites Malcolm to spend the night at his home, but Malcolm refuses saying, "You have a family.... I don't want anyone hurt on my account.  I always knew it would end like this."
  - 21 Feb - Malcolm X is shot several time at 3:10 P.M. while delivering a speech at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem.  Thomas Hagan (Talmage Hayer) was arrested outside and charged with homicide.  Reuben X was charged with felonious assault on Hayer and possession of a deadly weapon.  Malcolm was pronounced Dead On Arrival at Vanderbilt Clinic, Presbyterian Hospital.
  - 25 Feb - removed from the FBI Security Index.
  - 26 Feb - Norman 3X Butler arrested at 3 A.M. for the murder
  - 27 Feb - 9:20 A.M. services begin; 9:50 Ossie Davis speaks; 11:10 procession to Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale; 11:35 arrive at cemetery; 12:45 P.M. graveside service concludes.
  - 10 Mar - New York Grand Jury indicts Hayer, 22, Butler, 26, and Johnson, 29, for murder.
  - Betty Shabazz gives birth to twin daughters Malaak and Malikah.