Match the dates listed below to the events that happened that year. The events (on the next page) are jumbled up and in no particular order. You can write them next to the date or cut out and paste them.

WORKSHEET:THE WIZARD OF OZ – A TIMELINE

Year Event

1856

1886

1897

1900

1902

1904

1911

1919

1925

1939

1942

1987

2011

2017

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The Royal Shakespeare Company creates a theatrical adaptation based on the MGM film.

The Wizard of Oz (Lloyd Webber / Rice version) Australian tour opens.

The St Louis Municipal Opera creates a stage musical based on the MGM film.

The first novel sequel (one of 13 such sequels) The Marvellous Land of Oz is reluctantly written by Baum.

Baum writes in the story The Emerald City of Oz that Ozland has lost contact with the rest of the world and therefore he cannot continue to write sequels. His child fans refuse to accept this so he continues to write sequels until the year of his death.

Dorothy makes her first appearance in Baum’s first children’s book, Mother Goose in Prose, a collection of 22 children’s stories based on Mother Goose nursery rhymes.

The Wizard of Oz is adapted by Andrew Lloyd Webber, including additional songs written by Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, and opens at the London Palladium.

The first stage musical of The Wizard of Oz is produced with lyrics by Baum and runs on Broadway for 293 shows.

Baum dies in Hollywood. His last words are, reportedly, “Now we can cross the Shifting Sands”.

Baum publishes his first book, The Book of the Hamburgs. The subject of the book: how to raise chickens. MGM makes The Wizard of Oz, starring Judy Garland,

billed as “the happiest film ever”.

L. Frank Baum born in Chittenango, New York, as the seventh of nine children.

A silent movie of The Wizard of Oz is made, starring Oliver Hardy as the Tin Man.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz book is published, and is a great hit, earning praise in a New York Times review.

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