1940 - November 27 Lee Jun Fan (Bruce Lee) is born.
1941 - February Appears in his first film at the age of 3 months
1952 - Enters La Salle College, a catholic boys’ school in Hong Kong
1953 - Begins to study Wing Chun gung fu under Yip Man
1958 - Wins Hong Kong’s Crown Colony Cha-Cha Championship
March 29- Enters St. Francis Xavier High School
1959 -April 29- Departs Hong Kong for the United States
May 17 - Arrives in San Francisco
September 3 - Arrives in Seattle and enters Edison Technical School
1960 - December 2 - Graduates from Edison Technical School
1961 - May 27 - Enters the University of Washington at the spring quarter
1963 - March 26 - Returns to Hong Kong to visit family for the first time since
leaving for the US.
August - Returns to Seattle and opens gung fu school
1964 - Leaves University of Washington after spring quarter
July 19 - Establishes a gung fu school in Oakland, California
August 2 - Performs at the International Karate Tournament in Long Beach,
California
August 17 - Marries Linda Emery in Seattle
1965 - accepts challenge and wins right to teach gung fu to non-Chinese
students
February 1 - Son, Brandon Bruce Lee, is born in Oakland
February 8 -Bruce Lee’s father, Lee Hoi Chuen, passes away in Hong Kong
1966 - March - The Lee family moves to Los Angeles
June 6 - Begins shooting “The Green Hornet” TV series
1967 - January 8 First appearance of the name “Jeet Kune Do” in Chinese in his
daytimer
February 5 - Opens the Jun Fan Gung Fu Institute, Los Angeles
May 6 - Performs at National Karate Championships in Washington D.C.
June 24 - Appears at All-American Open Karate Championship, Madison
Square Garden, New York
July - First appearance of name “Jeet Kune Do” in English in daytimer
July 14 - Hired to appear in an episode of “Ironside” in Los Angeles
July 30 - Performs at Long Beach International Karate Tournament
1968 - June 23 - Attends National Karate Championships in Washington D.C.
July 5 -Hired as the technical director for the movie “The Wrecking Crew”
August 1 - Hired to play a bad guy in MGM movie “Marlowe”
October 1 - Moves to Bel Air
November 12 - Films an episode of “Blondie”
1969 - April 19 - Daughter, Shannon Emery Lee, is born in Santa Monica, California
1970 - Returns to Hong Kong with Brandon to visit family
1970-71 - Works with James Coburn and Stirling Silliphant on screenplay
about the philosophy of martial art to be called, “The Silent Flute”
1971 - Pitches a TV series to Warner Brothers called “The Warrior” (later
called “Kung Fu”)and begins collaborations to develop it.
July Goes to Thailand to film “The Big Boss” for Golden Harvest
December 7 - Hears word from Warner Brothers he will not star in “The
Warrior”; instead Caucasian actor, David Carradine, will star
1972 - Films second film for Golden Harvest (“Fist of Fury”)
Forms his own production company called “Concord”
Writes, directs, choreographs and stars in “The Way of the Dragon”
Oct – Nov Begins filming fight sequences for “Game of Death”
1973 - February Interrupts filming of “Game of Death” to film “Enter the Dragon”
July 20 - Bruce Lee passes away in Hong Kong
July 31 - Laid to rest in Seattle, Washington
