| 1852 |
born March 1 in Spain |
| 1870 |
enrolled in University of Zargoza |
| 1873 |
obtained a medical degree at the University of Zaragoza and
took his Licentiate in Medicine at Saragossa to serve, after a competitive
examination, as an army doctor |
| 1874 |
took part in an expedition to Cuba where he contracted
malaria and tuberculosis |
| 1875 |
returned
to Spain and became an assistant in the medical faculty at University of
Zaragoza and assistant in the School of Anatomy |
| 1879 |
Director of the
Zaragoza Museum |
| 1880 |
published "Manual of normal histology and micrographic
technique" and married Doña Silvería Fañanás García (they had 4
daughters and 4 sons) |
| 1883 |
obtained the degree of Doctor of Medicine at Madrid and
unanimously nominated Professor of Descriptive and General Anatomy at
Valencia |
| 1884 |
served as professor of descriptive anatomy at the
University of Valencia until 1887 |
| 1887 |
first
learns about silver bichromate technique from Simmarro and professor of
Histology and Pathological Anatomy at the University of Barcelona until
1892 |
| 1888 |
decided to use embryos for his study |
| 1889 |
published second edition of "Manual of normal
histology and micrographic technique" and small exhibit of drawing at
Congress of the German Anatomical Society at the University of Berlin |
| 1892 |
professor of histology and pathological anatomy at the
university of Madrid until 1922 |
| 1894 |
Honorary Doctor of Medicine of the University of Cambridge |
| 1895 |
Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Madrid |
| 1896 |
Honorary Doctor of Medicine of the University of Wurzburg |
| 1897 |
Member of Royal Academy of Medicine of Madrid and Spanish
Society of Natural History and of the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon |
| 1899 |
Honorary Doctor of Philosophy of the Clark University where
he and other "science superstars" from Europe spoke about their
work |
| 1902 |
appointed director of the "Investigaciones Biológicas"
and the "Instituto Nacional de Higiene" |
| 1903 |
improved Golgi's silver nitrate stain for the general study
of the fine structure of nervous tissue in the brain, sensory centers, and
the spinal cords of embryos and young animals |
| 1906 |
received the 1906 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
for establishing the neuron, or nerve cell, as the basic unit of nervous
structure |
| 1913 |
developed a gold stain for the general study of the fine
structure of nervous tissue in the brain, sensory centers, and the spinal
cords of embryos and young animals and published The Degeneration and
Regeneration of the Nervous System |
| 1920 |
King Alfonso XIII of Spain commissioned the construction of
the Cajal Institute in Madrid, where Ramón y Cajal worked until his death |
| 1922 |
academic retirement |
| 1934 |
died October 17 in Madrid |
