- 6-1-26 - Birthdate
- 9-13-35 - Entered orphanage
- 6-26-37 - Left orphanage
- 6-19-42 - Married Jim Dougherty
- 6-26-45 - Photographed by David Conover for Yank magazine
- 8-2-45 - Application for the Blue Book Modeling Agency
- 7-17-46 - First interview at Fox with Ben Lyon
- 7-19-46 - First screen test, for Fox
- 7-29-46 - First time mentioned in a Hollywood gossip column
- 8-26-46 - First studio contract with Fox
- 9-13-46 - Divorced Jim Dougherty
- 8-25-47 - Dropped by Fox
- 3-9-48 - Contract with Columbia Studios
- 9-8-48 - Dropped by Columbia Studios
- 5-27-49 - Posed for nude calendar
- 7-24-49 - First interview with Earl Wilson
- 8-15-49 - Started A Ticket to Tomahawk
- 1-5-50 - Started The Fireball
- 12-10-50 - New contract with Fox
- 12-18-50 - Johnny Hyde dies
- 3-29-51 - Presenter at the Academy Awards ceremony
- 4-18-51 - Started Love Nest
- 9-8-51 - First full-length national magazine feature (Colliers)
- 3-13-52 - Nude calendar story broken to the public
- 4-7-52 - First LIFE magazine cover
- 6-1-52 - Got the part of Lorelei Lee in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
- 9-2-52 - Grand Marshal at the Miss America pageant
- 10-4-52 - Alledgedly married Robert Slatzer. (unproved)
- 6-26-53 - Placed footprints in cement at Grauman's Chinese Theatre
- 9-13-53 - First TV appearance on The Jack Benny Show
- 10-53 - Met Milton Greene at a party given by Gene Kelly, and signed a recording
contract with RCA
- 11-4-53 - Premiere of How to Marry a Millionaire
- 12-15-53 - Girl in Pink Tights scheduled to begin shooting. Marilyn didn't show up
- 1-4-54 - Suspended by Fox
- 1-6-54 - Hollywood's royalty honors MM at Romanoff's party
- 2-16-54 - Married Joe DiMaggio
- 2-16-54 - Went to entertain troops in Korea
- 9-15-54 - Shot the famous skirt-blowing scene from The Seven Year Itch
- 10-5-54 Officially left Joe DiMaggio
- 10-27-54 - Divorce granted from Joe DiMaggio
- 11-5-54 - "Wrong Door Raid" took place
