• 1925: He attended primary school at Trearddur Bay, Anglesey.
• 1931: He went to Shrewsbury School.
• 1937: He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Welch Fusiliers.
• 1941: He was discharged from the Army after having an epileptic fit.
• 1941: He went to the Slade School of Art.
• 1944: He was appointed to the post of Senior Art Master at Highgate School, London.
• 1948: He held his first exhibition at the Colnaghi Gallery in London.
• 1968: He was awarded the Churchill Fellowship to record the Welsh community in Patagonia, where he travelled for four months, recording the people, the landscape and wildlife.
• 1974: He left his job in London and moved to Pwllfanogl near the village of Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, Anglesey, where he lived and worked for the rest of his life.
• 1991: He receives the Cymmrodorion Medal, and published ‘A Wider Sky’.
• 1999: He was knighted by the Queen.
• 2006: He finished his final painting, ‘Sunset over Anglesey’.
‘The art of Sir Kyffin Williams captured the imagination of the Welsh public. His dark, monumental landscapes of Snowdonia came to assume an iconic status and so too did the man, affectionately known simply as Kyffin.’ – Rhian Evans, ‘Sir Kyffin Williams’, The Guardian, 4 September 2006 – https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/sep/04/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries