He enters the Escuela Normal (teacher training school), Artemisa. Studies the piano until age 10, and then plays the clarinet in a youth band until 1939.

He attends several courses at the Escuela de Bellas Artes in Pinar del Río.

Graduates as a teacher.

1^st Anarchist Congress of the Cuban Libertarian Assocation

First exhibition, at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Pinar del Río (one work: Casas de Cayajabo). Critique by Dulzaides, dated 12/24/1946)^[1]

Wifredo Lam exhibition in Havana.

Guernica, copy for the anarchist headquarters at Estrella 105, Havana.

Publication of Cucalambé by Robert Altmann.

2^st and 3^rd Anarchist Congresses.

Salón de los Rechazados [Exhibition of the Rejected].

Llinás moves to Havana (according to the painter’s archives, also possibly in 1951).

Receives a doctoral degree in arts pedagogy.

April: first Los Once exhibition.

First trip to New York and Washington; he enters the US on June 16 (the title of a 1965 painting).

Anti-biennial in homage to Martí, beginning of the year.

Exhibition in New York, at the Galería Sudamericana.

Murals for La Roca, LH, with architect Hugo d’Acosta.

In May his US visa is renewed until 1959.

First stay in France; enters Italy on October 27.

Leaves Switzerland on the 26th or 27th (there are two stamps) and enters France through Pontarlier on November 28.

In Paris, he lives at the Casa de Cuba (Cité Universitaire); he works at the studio of Wifredo Arcay.

Visits Spain from late August to mid-September.

Leaves Amberes on January 1, arrives in Havana January 23.

Towards the end of the year, he returns to Paris with a scholarship. He works at the Atelier 17 of W. Stanley Hayter; again resides at the Cité Universitaire.

October 14: Passport stamp, enters France.

December 5: Passport stamp, enters New York.

Visits: England (April); Austria, East and West Germany (Berlin in June).

Atelier Stanley Hayter, Paris, where Llinás studies metal engraving.

August: Exhibition at the New Vision Gallery, Newcastle.

October: Third International Congress of Plastic Arts, Vienna, in which he participates as a representative of Cuba.

December: Premiere of Medea en el Espejo by José Triana. According to the author, Llinás attended, but his whereabouts in 1961 are unknown, as he has exhibitions in Paris and Havana.

June: meetings at the National Library; Castro gives his famous speech, “Palabras a los intelectuales” [Words to the Intellectuals]. Llinás attends.

August 18-22: 1^er Congreso de Escritores y Artistas Cubanos [1st Congress of Cuban Writers and Artists]; establishment of the Unión Nacional de Escritores y Artistas Cubanos (UNEAC).

Between 1961-62, collection of Abakuá sketches, requested of Argeliers León or Odilio Urfé for the Institute of Ethnology².

He teaches at the Escuela de Arquitectura.

Dec. Premiere of Aire Frío, with scenography by Llinás.

Dec 14-16  I^st National Congress of Culture.

January 11 to February 3: Abstract Expressionism Exhibition at Galería La Habana.

May 15: flight to Paris via Prague; arrival to Prague on May 16; visa to Germany dated May 18.

October: International Architects’ Union Congress for which he made the mural at L and 23 streets in Havana. There is a plaque with his name on the sidewalk at La Rampa.

In Paris, Llinás lives at the Impasse de l’Astrolabe, 75014.

April: Llinás begins to work at the Galerie Denise René

August: London.

Cuban passport renewed; Llinás must present himself at a military center upon return to Cuba.

At the beginning of the year he lives at 147, Rue de Charonne (75020). In March he moves to 40, Rue Brancion, 75015 (the title of one of his first wood engravings, from 1965).

Spends New Year’s in London.

Amelia Peláez visits.

August: Andalucia and Madrid.

Publication of Michael Rothenstein’s second book on experimental engraving. Book with Cortázar.

October: Desnoes and María Rosa Almendros visit.

April: visits Belgium and the Netherlands.

Denise René gallery opens at St Germain and in California; Llinás receives a salary increase.

He moves to Rue du Temple, Vincennes (on the outskirts of Paris).

May 15 to August: Antonia Eiriz visits. In August Desnoes and Ambrosio Fornet arrive in Paris heading from a reunion of the Pen Club in Ivory Coast.

December 6: Stokely Carmichael speech in Paris.

May: London; summer: Stockholm.

Llinás begins psychoanalysis due to hair loss.

May 16: Calvert Casey commits suicide in Rome.

August 2-30: West Germany; August: Copenhagen with Roberto Altmann. End of the year: Belgium.

July and August: Belgium, Amsterdam and Germany.

May: Great Britain; June: Basel; June: Italy; august: Greece.

Poemas, book with José Lezama Lima.

April 4-26: Syria, via Lebanon; June: Art Basel; August: Madrid.

March: Geneva; August: Portugal; November: Belgium.

Difficulties leading to his dismissal at the Galerie Denise René; he remains unemployed until 2005.

Juillet: Italie.

May: Madrid; August: Great Britain.

April: Gentilly et l’Afrique. Llinás exhibits and creates the poster for the event.

Moves to 72, rue de Romainville, Montreuil.

Exhibition Signes in Malmö, au mois d’août Copenhague et Allemagne.

August 15 to September 4: premier voyage à Cuba depuis 1963.

Juillet: Londres.

United States.

July: second trip to Cuba, with Jacqueline, Sylvie, and François Sauvage.

Founding of the group Xylotraces, (until 1989).

Le long du fleuve, with Michel Butor.

United States; Julio Cortázar dies.

1rst  exhibition of Xylotraces.

September – October: visit of Antonia Eiriz; she exhibits in Paris with a work from 1965.

Llinás obtains French citizenship.

Membre du Jury de la Biennale de Fredrikstad,  Norvège.

Le masque d’artiste, Exhibition in Cannes.

Septembre: New York.

Retrospective à Puerto Rico. Décembre-Janvier, voyage en Egypte.

Exhibition in Paris, at the Séita, by Jean-Michel Basquiat.

March 29: François Sauvage dies.

Raúl Martínez and Antonia Eiriz die.

September: trip to Cuba.

Retrospective in Miami.

50 woodcarvings (donated by the artist) at the Lehigh University Art Galleries.

Llinás dies on July 4 in Paris/Créteil at the Hôpital Mondor, after a traffic accident in Vincennes.