1901 "Cecília Benevides de Carvalho Meireles was born in Rio de Janeiro on the 7^th November, 1901, the daughter of Carlos Alberto de Carvalho Meireles, employee of Banco do Brasil, and Matilde Benevides, municipal teacher."

Her father died three months before her birth, and her mother when she was three years old. At this time, she remained under the guardianship of her maternal grandmother who was of Azorian origin and her only surviving relative.

1910 "as soon as 1910, at the finish of elementary school at Escola Estácio de Sá, she received, from the hands of Olavo Bilac, District School Inspector and very well known poet, a gold medal made especially in her honour."

1917 Graduate teacher at the Escola Normal do Instituto de Educação do Rio de Janeiro.

"Immediately after graduating from the Escola Normal, in 1917, she begins to work. She teaches at a house in Av. Rio Branco, later being transferred to the Escola Deodoro, near the clock at Glória."

1921 Marries the Portuguese artist Fernando Correia Dias with whom she would have three daughters: Maria Elvira, Maria Matilde and Maria Fernanda.

1935 "suffering from crises of depression that become more intense each time, Fernando Correia Dias comes to lose his endurance. His fragile constitution, ruined by constant hardship, no longer withstands and the artist summons his energy for a final act, the tragic suicide that leaves his wife completely alone, without any relative to support her in bringing up the three daughters."

1940 Marries Professor Heitor Grillo.

1964 Cecília Meireles dies. "Victim of evil without cure, characteristic of our century, the poet passes away on the 9^th November, 1964" in the city of Rio de Janeiro.

1965 The Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Academy of Literature) confers the award Machado de Assis on her post-mortem, for the entirety of her work.