a.d. 978 (?) Murasaki born.
a.d. 994 (?) Marries Fujiwara no Nobutaka.
a.d. 1001 Nobutaka dies.
a.d. 1005 (?) She becomes lady-in-waiting to the Empress Akiko, then a girl of sixteen.
a.d. 1007–1010 Keeps a diary, which survives.
a.d. 1008 Book I of the Tale of Genji read to the Emperor.
a.d. 1025 Murasaki still at Court.
a.d. 1031 Murasaki no longer at Court and perhaps dead.