| Edgar Snow travels to China | 1928 |
| Edgar Snow travels to northwest of China, interviews and films the Chinese communists | 1936 |
| Edgar Snow publishes Red Star Over China | 1938 |
| Lois Snow begins her acting career on Broadway | 1943 |
| Lois and Edgar meet | 1946 |
| Founding of the People’s Republic of China under the leadership of Chairman Mao | 1949 |
| Lois and Edgar are blacklisted, leave the United States and settle in Switzerland | 1959 |
| Lois and Edgar buy the farmhouse in Eysins, Swizerland | 1969 |
| Lois and Edgar stand with Chairman Mao on balcony of Tian An Men, first indication that the American President Nixon would be welcomed | 1970 |
| Edgar Snow dies | 1972 |
| President Nixon travels to China | 1972 |
| Edgar Snow’s ashes buried in China | 1973 |
| Tian An Men massacre in China | 1989 |
| Lois travels to Beijing to try to give money to Women’s association who have lost their children in the Tian An Men massacre | 2001 |
