TIMELINE OF RICHARD NEVILLE'S LIFE
1941 - Born in Sydney on December 15.
1950s - Attends Knox Grammar School as a boarder.
1960s - Studies arts at the University of NSW; edits student magazine Tharunka. Hatches a plan with University of Sydney medical student Richard Walsh and National Art School student Martin Sharp to print a monthly satirical magazine.
1963 - First issue of Oz published on April Fool's Day; 6000 copies sell out in three hours.
- The trio are charged with publishing an obscene publication after the third issue in June. Fined after pleading guilty.
1964
FEBRUARY - Neville and two other men pictured on the front cover of Oz's sixth issue pretending to urinate into a fountain sculpture in Sydney's P&O building.
APRIL - Neville, Sharp and Walsh convicted under the NSW Obscene and Indecent Publications Act after judge rules the magazine would deprave young people.
1965 - Convictions are overturned on appeal.
1966
MARCH - Neville and Sharp edit their last issue of Oz and go to London.
1967
FEBRUARY - London Oz launched by Neville and Sharp.
1970 - Neville, a self-described futurist, publishes his manifesto Play Power which monitors the "global youthquake" and predicts rise of computers.
1971 - Neville and London Oz co-editors, Jim Anderson and Felix Dennis, convicted for corrupting the morals of children after a six-week obscenity trial over their May 1970 issue Schoolkids Oz.
JUNE - Amid public outrage, led by Beatles star John Lennon, the three editors, with their hippie locks cut off, are released on appeal.
1973
NOVEMBER - London Oz closes.
1974 -Journalist Julie Clarke interviews Neville in Australia.
1975 - Neville sparks a debate on pederasty after appearing on ABC TV's Lateline.
1977 - Clarke and Neville move to New York, where he freelances for The New York Times, London's Punch magazine and others.
1979 - The couple release best-selling biography about serial killer Charles Sobhraj.
1980 - They return to Sydney and marry.
1983 - Birth of daughter, Lucy.
1986 - Creates Network Ten show Extra Dimensions.
1989 - Birth of daughter, Angelica.
1995 - Publishes memoir Hippie Hippie Shake, an account of swinging London.
MAY - Neville and Julie injured in car crash on the Spanish island of Majorca.
1996 - Co-launches The Futures Foundation.
2003 - Publishes Footprints of the Future: Richard Neville's Handbook for the Third Millennium, and Amerika Psycho: Behind Uncle Sam's Mask of Sanity.
2016 - Neville, who had dementia, dies at his northern NSW home.
