Born
Alan Mathison Turing was born on June 23, 1912 in Maida Vale, London.
Here's a timeline of Turing's life:
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Jun 23, 1912
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Aug 19, 1926
Early Signs of Intelligence
At the age of 13, Alan Turing first showed signs of intelligence and potential which was noticed at the Sherborne School.
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Aug 29, 1931
Getting Serious About Technology
LAlan Turing studied from 1931 to 1934 at King's College, in Cambridge. He was first in his class and was an honor student in the field of mathematics.
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Sep 30, 1936
Studied at Princeton University
Turing studied mathematics and cryptology while also building three of four stages of an electro-mechanical binary multiplier at Princeton University.
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Mar 18, 1940
Bombe
Turing was responsible for creating the Bombe which was a cryptanalytic machine used to decrypt the Enigma-enciphered messages being sent from the enemies.
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Nov 29, 1942
Travels to US
Turing traveled to the United States to work with the US naval cryptanalysts to create their version of the Bombe and an Enigma in Washington.
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Feb 19, 1946
Presented Paper
He presented his paper in February of 1946 where he had presented the first detailed design of a stored program computer setup.
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Sep 13, 1947
ACE
Turing lived in Hampton, London where worked on the design of the ACE (Automatic Computing Engine).
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Mar 19, 1948
LU decomposition method
Turing created the LU decomposition method that was used and is still used today to solve matrix equations.
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Aug 31, 1948
Software for stored-program computers
Turing was appointed a position in the mathematics department at the University of Manchester where he worked on software for one of the earliest stored-program computers.
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Apr 29, 1950
Turing Test
The turing test was created in 1950. The turing test was created to compare the intelligence of a machine/computer to the intelligence of a human brain.
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Jan 29, 1952
Indecency
Turing was caught in a relationship with an unemployed 19 year old man. He was convicted for indecency because homosexual acts were considered criminal offences in the United Kingdom at the time. This is what lead to his downhill spiral right before his suicide.
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Jan 29, 1952
Book Published
Turing's book "The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis" was published in 1952 which was all about his interest in the biology of organisms.
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Jun 8, 1954
Death
Turing committed suicide in his house where his housekeeper found him dead.
(Timeline taken from timetoast.com)
"Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine."
-- Alan Mathison Turing OBE FRS