| 1890 | Born in Montgomery County, Alabama, January 20. Son of Lawrence Monroe and Annie Scott McGehee Owsley. |
| 1892-1906 | Attended several country schools in Montgomery and Elmore Counties. Some of the classes were taught by relatives. |
| 1906-1909 | Attended Fifth District Agricultural School, Wetumpka, Alabama. (The curriculum included two years of college.) |
| 1909 | Graduated from Fifth District Agricultural School in June, winning several medals and money prizes for highest honors. |
| 1909-1911 | Attended Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Alabama, receiving bachelor of science degree in June 1911. He had a double major in English and History and was first in his class. |
| 1912 | Awarded the Master of Science in History with honors by Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Alabama. |
| 1912-1914 | Professor of History and Government at Fifth District Agricultural School, Wetumpka, Alabama. |
| 1914-1915 | Instructor in History at Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Alabama. |
| 1915-1916 | Farmed and studied Law |
| 1916-1917 | Attended graduate school at the University of Chicago, receiving the Master of Arts degree in History, June 1917. |
| 1917-1919 | Served briefly in Armed Services and returned to graduate school at the University of Chicago. |
| 1919-1920 | Professor of History, Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham, Alabama. |
| 1920 | Married Harriet Fason Chappell in Birmingham, Alabama. |
| 1920- 1924 | Assistant Professor of History, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee |
| 1924 | Awarded Doctor of Philosophy degree, magna cum laude, by the University of Chicago. |
| 1924 -1927 | Associate Professor of History, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. |
| 1925 | State Rights in the Confederacy published by University of Chicago Press. |
| 1927-1928 | Guggenheim Fellow in England and France for research on King Cotton Diplomacy. |
| 1928 | June 13, 1928 Frank Lawrence Owsley, Jr. (Larry) born in Nashville, Tennessee. |
| 1928 -1949 | Professor of History, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee |
| 1930 | I'll Take My Stand: the South and the Agrarian Tradition published by Harper Brothers of New York and London. Owsley contributed the essay "The Irrepressible Conflict." |
| 1931 | King Cotton Diplomacy, published by University of Chicago Press. |
| 1936 | Who Owns America? Published by Houghton, Miflin of New York and Boston. Owsley ontributed the essay "The Foundations of Democracy." |
| 1936 -1937 | Social Science Research Grant and sabbatical leave from Vanderbilt University. |
| 1937 | Summer visiting professor, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois. |
| 1938 | March 12, 1938 Margaret Owsley (later Mrs. Cornelius Seigenthaler) born in Nashville, Tennessee. |
| 1939 | Summer visiting professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina |
| 1940 | Summer visiting professor, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina |
| 1945 -1948 | A Short History of the American People, volumes 1 and 2 by Frank Lawrence Owsley, Oliver Perry Chitwood and Herman Clarence Nixon published by D. Van Nostrand, Co. of New York. |
| 1948 | Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (These lectures were based on Plain Folk of the Old South.) 4 Lectures: April 12-"Southern Society-A Reinterpretation" and "To the Promised Land" April 13-"Southern Folkways" April 14: "The Role of the Plain Folk" |
| 1948 | The Claiborne Lectures at the University of Mississippi given in November. Tuesday November 2, "Role of the Plain Folk in Ante-Bellum Southern History" Wednesday November 3, "Southern Folkways" |
| 1949 | Plain Folk of the Old South published by Louisiana State University Press. |
| 1949 - 1956 | Friedman Professor of American History, University of Alabama. |
| 1952 - 1955 | Chairman, Department of History, University of Alabama. |
| 1954 | Summer visiting professor, Columbia University, New York City. |
| 1955 | Blazer Lectures, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky-"Self-Imposed Restraints and the Survival of American Democracy" (April 5, 1955) |
| 1955 | Summer visiting professor, Columbia University, New York City. |
| 1956 | Fulbright Lecturer, St. John's College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England. |
| 1956 | Died, October 21, in Winchester, England. |
| 1969 | The South: Old and New Frontiers: Selected Essays of Frank Lawrence Owsley. Edited by Harriet Chappell Owsley and published by University of Georgia Press. |
| 1990 | Frank Lawrence Owsley: Historian of the Old South: A Memoir by Harriet Chappell Owsley published in Nashville by the Vanderbilt University Press. |
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