1924	Born in Konigsberg, East Prussia, into Jewish-Lithuanian family.
1939	To escape threat of Nazism, was sent to England to finish her schooling.
1942	Graduated from Manchester College of Technology. Worked in leading portrait studio in central Manchester.
1945	Married Louis Bohm.
1946	Opened "Studio Alexander" in Manchester.
1947	Frequent visits (until 1952) to Ascona in the Ticino, Switzerland.
1948	First visit to Israel.
1953	Lived in Paris, travelled extensively in Europe (and would continue to do so).
1955	Lived in New York and San Francisco; travelled extensively in USA and Mexico. Experimented with AGFA colour film, but continued to work in black and white.
1956	Settled in Hampstead, North London, where she still lives.
1957	Daughter Monica born.
1960	Daughter Yvonne born.
1961	Visited the USSR; photographed in Moscow & Leningrad.
1971	Closely involved with the founding of The Photographers’ Gallery, London, and its Associate Director for next 15 years.
1974	Visited South Africa.
1980	BBC2 Television documentary Dorothy Bohm-Photographer. Experimented with colour photography, using SX70 Polaroid camera.
1985	Started to work exclusively with colour film. Visited Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan.
1986 & 1987	Visited Egypt.
1991	Several visits to Venice.
1995	Interviewed by Mark Haworth-Booth for the Oral History of British Photography, National Sound Archive, British Library, London.
1998	Founded Focus Gallery for Photography, Bloomsbury, London.
2009	Appointed Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society.
2014	Work included in The History of European Photography, 1939-69 (FOTOFO, Bratislava).
2015	Included in Britain's Greatest Generation, BBC2 TV series.
2018	Seeing Daylight: The Photography of Dorothy Bohm, documentary film directed by Richard Shaw