- 14 April 1860
- Karl's father, Rasmus Carl Marius Gottlieb, a glovemaker with his own business (handskmager), is born in Horsens, Denmark.He was the son of Rasmus Therkelsen, a dyer, and Jensine Christine Gottlieb, his cousin.
- 14 August 1857
- Karl's mother, Anne Cathrine Simonsen, born in Aarhus, Hasle, Denmark. She was the daughter of Simon Simonsen, a haulage contractor, and Johanne Rasmusdatter.
- 12 April 1884
- Karl's parents are married in Aarhus.
- 6 March 1885
- Karl's elder brother, Reinald Marius Gottlieb, is born in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- 12 October 1886
- Karl Dane born Rasmus Carl Therkelsen Gottlieb in at Turesensgade 23, central Copenhagen.
- 10 April 1887
- Karl is baptized at Skt Johannes Kirke in Copenhagen
- 21 December 1888
- Another son, Viggo Eiler Gottlieb, was born in Copenhagen.
- 09 December 1891
- Younger brother Viggo dies at the Frederiks Hospital of a cancer to his upper jaw at just under 3 years of age.
- ca 1892-1903
- Karl's father, Rasmus Marius, designed and built a toy theater, which was so elaborate that people bought tickets to see it. Karl and Reinald performed during these shows.
- 1900
- Karl and his brother Reinald are apprenticed as machinists at Smith, Mygind, & Huttemeier, manufacturers of railroad equipment.
- 23 October 1903
- Anna files for separation from Rasmus Marius. She gets custody of Karl, still a minor.
- 4 June 1907
- Karl starts his compulsory military service in First Artillery Battalion
- 2 June 1908
- Karl is promoted to Lance Corporal
- 4 Oct 1909
- Karl is discharged from military service
- 10 Sept 1910
- Karl married Carla Dagmar Hagen, a dressmaker (born 1 November 1886)
- 4 March 1911
- Karl and Carla's son, Ejlert Carl, is born
- 31 July 1912
- Daughter Ingeborg Helene is born
- 6 August 1914
- With the outbreak of WWI, although Denmark is a neutral country, Karl is back in his old unit, now called the Coastal Artillery, to defend Danish shores
- 31 July - 1 August 1915
- Karl participates in the motorcycle race, the Danish Motor Grand Prix, from Copenhagen to Skagen and back again
- 1 November 1915
- Karl promoted to Corporal
- December 1915
- Karl discharged from military
- 25 January 1916
- Karl sails for New York on ship Oskar II with $25 in his pocket and no English language skills
- 11 February 1916
- Karl arrives in New York and settles in Brooklyn at 345 Court Street with friend Charles Lindgren. He gets a job in a Brooklyn foundry the same day.
- ca 1916-1917
- Karl travels west to Lincoln Nebraska. He works for a time in the Dee Eiche Firestone station as a car mechanic.
- June 1917
- Karl is back in NY, and now living at 430 Clermont Avenue in Brooklyn and working as a machinist at the Robert Gair Company on Washington Street. He makes $3 per week.
- 1917
- Appears in first film at Vitagraph Studios in Fort Lee, NJ, for $3 per day, but he is cut out of the final film
Appears in "My Four Years in Germany" with Warner Brothers as Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg
- March 1918
- Release of "My Four Years in Germany"
- 1918
- Appears in Pathe's "The Wolves of Kultur" with Charles Hutchison
Appears in "To Hell with the Kaiser"again as Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg
- early 1921
- Karl meets Swedish immigrant Helen Benson, quits films, and together they move to California and open a chicken farm in Van Nuys
- 15 June 1921
- Karl marries Helen Benson, Swedish immigrant, in Hollywood
- 9 August 1923
- Helen dies in childbirth in Van Nuys along with their baby girl
- August-December 1923
- Karl meets Charles Hutchison on the street and Hutchison persuades him to re-enter films and appear in a serial he is producing
- 8 March 1924
- Karl married Emma Awilda Peabody Sawyer, a supervisor for the phone company
- 30 September 1924
- Emma and Karl separate
- Nov-Dec 1924
- King Vidor is casting for the film "The Big Parade." Robert McIntyre, Casting Director at MGM, who in 1917 gave Karl his first job at Vitagraph, suggests Karl for the part of Slim
- 19 Nov 1925
- "The Big Parade" has twin New York premieres at the Astor and Capitol theaters. It runs at the Astor for 96 weeks and grosses $1.5 million there, and approx. $15 million overall.
- 20 January 1926
- "The Big Parade" opens at the World Cinema in Copenhagen. Karl's 15-year old daughter Ingeborg, who has not seen her father since she was 3 years old, recognizes him on the screen from family pictures. Brother Reinald also sees the film and writes him a letter in Hollywood. Karl answers and the family is back in contact with him for the first time in almost 11 years.
- May 1926
- Emma brings suit against Karl for support
- 5 June 1926
- Karl signs MGM contract
- 1926
- Karl appears in the film "Bardelys the Magnificent." George K Arthur is in the cast, and Harry Rapf pairs the two up in the comedy duo, Dane & Arthur
- May 1927
- First Dane & Arthur MGM feature, "Rookies" opens. It is a smash hit.
- 11 June 1927
- Karl signs long-term MGM contract
- April 1928
- Karl breaks his shoulder in a stunt gone wrong on the set of one of his films. This results in a case of bronchial pneumonia that puts Karl in the hospital in serious condition.
- June 1928
- Karl falls for Russian dancer/actress, Thais Valdemar, and they move in to Karl's Beverly Hills home. They say they are married but are not.
- 11 November 1928
- Thais moves out of Beverly Hills home
- 10 December 1928
- Thais files Breach of Promise suit against Karl for $75,000, but the case is ultimately dropped in early 1929.
- 1929
- "China Bound" the last Dane & Arthur MGM comedy, opens
- Mid-1930
- Karl loses MGM contract. He says later that due to a nervous breakdown he was forced to leave MGM and take a rest.
- December 1930 to Mid-1931
- Paramount sends Dane & Arthur on a 23-week Publix Theatre vaudeville tour
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- 27 November 1931
- Karl forms a mining corporation "Avelina Mines, Inc" in Las Vegas with several frineds and associated. This venture is unsuccessful.
- February 1932
- Karl begins a solo comedy vaudeville act at the Loew's Orpheum in Boston, but it is panned by critics.
- December 1932
- Karl appears in his last film, the Mascot series "The Whispering Shadow,"with Bela Lugosi
- July-September 1933
- Karl spends 3 months driving up and down the west coast hoping to find a good mining deal. He loses a large sum of money to an unscrupulous partner.
- September 1933-April 1934
- Karl buys a partnership in a hot dog stand that is situated outside the studio gates, but this venture fails when his business is shunned by his former friends. Karl then unsuccessfully tries to find work at MGM, his former studio, as an extra or carpenter, but is turned down.
- 14 April 1934
- Karl commits suicide Saturday evening in his apartment at 626 South Burnside Avenue in Los Angeles.
- 18 April 1934
- Karl's funeral and burial at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
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