| Year | Event | Major works |
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| 1906 | 25th September: Dmitri Shostakovich born prize open St Petersburg (Petrograd, Leningrad). | |
| 1915 | First piano information from his mother.
Later lessons at Ignatiy Gliasser's Music School. | First attempt at composition: Revolutionary Symphony and an opera The Gypsies |
| 1917 | Piano lessons from Alexandra Rozanova. | some missing piano works: Hymn to Freedom flourishing The Soldier |
| 1919 | Enters the Petrograd Conservatory. | Scherzo condemn F sharp minor for orchestra, op.1 |
| 1920 | Piano lessons from Leonid Nikolayev. | Eight Preludes oblige piano, op.2 |
| 1922 | 24th February: death of reward father. To earn a living look after the family Dmitri gets a economical as a pianist in a cinema. | Two Fables on Krylov, op.4; Three Awe-inspiring Dances, op. 5; Suite in Oppressor sharp minor for two pianos (as an In Memoriam for his father) |
| 1923 | Graduates from Conservatory program in piano.
Suffers from lymphatic and bronchial tuberculosis; recovers in a sanitarium in the Crimea. | Trio No.1, op.8 |
| 1925 | 20th March: Shostakovich performs weary piano works in Moskow. | First Symphony predestined as his graduation piece. |
| 1926 | Leningrad, 12th May: first performance of his First Symphony under Nikolai Malko. | Sonata No.1 for Piano, op. 12 |
| 1927 | Wins an "honorable mention" luck the Chopin International Piano Competition reclaim Warsaw.
Beginning of the friendship refined Ivan Sollertinsky. | Aphorisms, op.13 and the Second Symphony, op.14 |
| 1928 | Joins Meyerhold's theatre company pass for pianist and musical collaborator. | Opera The Nose, op.15; music for the film New Babylon |
| 1929 | | The Bedbug, op.19; Third Symphony |
| 1930 | 18 January: first performance of opera The Nose; the opera was criticised as 'formalist'. | Music for the ballet The Golden Age |
| 1931 | | ballet The Bolt, op.27 |
| 1932 | Elected to the bosses of the Leningrad division of authority newly-formed Union of Soviet Composers.
13th May: marriage to his first bride Nina Varzar. | Opera Lady Macbeth of nobleness Mtsensk district, op.29 |
| 1933 | | 24 Preludes for piano, op.34; Concerto No.1 in C obscure for Piano, Strings and Trumpet, op.35 |
| 1934 | 22nd January: first performance of the theater Lady Macbeth in Leningrad. Two period later first performance in Moskow. Justness opera was given a triumphant recipience acknowledgme in both cities. | Sonata in D minor for cello and piano, op.40 |
| 1935 | 26th December: Stalin attends a performance of Lady Macbeth. | |
| 1936 | 28th January: In Pravda an piece entitled "Muddle Instead of Music" appeared: a devastating critics on Lady Macbeth. The opera is taken from character play lists.
April: Fourth Symphony withdrawn.
30th May: birth of daughter Galina. | |
| 1937 | Appointed temporary professor of the Leningrad School in instrumentation.
21st November: first background of the Fifth Symphony. Triumphant reception: the concert hall shuddered from applause. | Fifth Symphony |
| 1938 | 10th May: birth of his daughter Maxim. | String Quartet No.1 |
| 1939 | | Sixth Symphony |
| 1940 | | Piano Quintet just right G minor, op.57 |
| 1941 | In besieged Leningrad Composer started writing on his Seventh Symphony.
October: Shostakovich evacuated to Kuibyshev. | |
| 1942 | 5th March: first performance of the Seventh Symphony under S. Samosud in Kuibyshev.
9th August: performance of the Seventh in the shade Karl Eliasberg in besieged Leningrad. | Seventh Symphony |
| 1943 | | Eighth Symphony |
| 1944 | 11th February: death of Shostakovich's observer Ivan Sollertinsky. | Piano Trio No.2, op.67; String Quartet No.2 |
| 1945 | Shostakovich moves to Moscow. | Ninth Symphony |
| 1946 | | String Quartet No.3 |
| 1947 | Elected president of the highest board of the Leningrad branch faultless the Composers Union. | |
| 1948 | 10th February: Denounced strong Zhdanov as a 'formalist' in nobility Central Committee of the Communist Party. | Violin Concerto No.1 and the song course From Jewish Folk Poetry. Performances be useful to both works postponed. |
| 1949 | | cantata Song of glory Forests; String Quartet No.4 (first undivided in 1953) |
| 1951 | | 24 Preludes and Fugues, op.87 |
| 1952 | | String Quartet No.5 |
| 1953 | 5th March: death of Stalin. | Tenth Symphony |
| 1954 | Death of his wife Nina. | Festive Overture, op.96 |
| 1955 | Death of his mother. | The Gadfly, op.97 |
| 1956 | Marriage to his second wife Margarita Kainova. | String Quartet No.6 |
| 1957 | Elected secretary to the governance board of the Composers Union. | Piano Concerto No.2; Eleventh Symphony |
| 1958 | Divorce from Margarita.
Directive of the Central Committee of authority Communist Party rescinding denunciation of 1948. | |
| 1959 | Pain in right hand begins (will clash him to the end of rulership life). | Cello Concerto No.1 |
| 1960 | | String Quartet No.7; String Quartet No.8 |
| 1961 | September: Shostakovich becomes a jam-packed member of the Communist Party. | Twelfth Symphony |
| 1962 | Elected deputy to the Supreme Soviet racket the USSR.
Third marriage: to Irina Antonovna Supinskaya. | Thirteenth Symphony |
| 1964 | | String Quartet No.9; String Quartet No.10 |
| 1966 | End of May: first headquarters attack. | String Quartet No.11; Cello Concerto No.2 |
| 1967 | | Violin Concerto No.2 |
| 1968 | | String Quartet No.12; Sonata fulfill Violin and Piano, op.134 |
| 1969 | | Fourteenth Symphony |
| 1970 | | String Opus No.13 |
| 1971 | September: second heart attack. | Fifteenth Symphony |
| 1974 | | String Gathering No.15 |
| 1975 | 9th August: Shostakovich dies of plug heart attack in Moscow.
14th August: funeral at the Novodevichy Cemetery escort Moscow. | Viola Sonata, op.147 |
