| 1859-1860 | studied law in Aix-en-Provence, began to paint "Jas de Bouffan" at his parents' home. |
| 1861 and 1862-1865 | attended the Academie Suisse in Paris and his work imitating Old Masters in the Louvre; for a time he returned to Aix as an apprentice in his father's bank; he formed friendships with Pissarro, Bazille, Guillaumin, Monet, Renoir and Sisley; he had known Zola since his school days. |
| 1863 | exhibited in the Salon des Refuses. |
| 1865-1870 | alternated between Paris and Aix; was continually rejected at the Salon. |
| 1866 | became acquainted with Manet. |
| 1870/71 | in Aix and L'Estaque; moved from predominantly fantasy depictions in coarse, mainly dark and heavy colours to painting from nature in the open air, above all landscapes and still lifes, as well as portraits. |
| 1871-1882 | mostly in Paris, occasionally in Pontoise and Auvers, where Pissarro introduced him to the Impressionist method; met Gachet and the art dealer Tanguy. Exhibited in 1874 and 1877 with the Impressionists; continued to be rejected by the Salon. |
| 1875 | met the collector Chocquet. |
| 1881 | developed a Neo-impressionist style, but still worked "sur le motif". |
| 1882 | succeeded in having one picture accepted at the Salon "by a pupil of Guillemet". From 1882 he lived in Aix; annual visits to Paris and its environs, numerous meetings with Zola and Renoir. |
| 1886 | quarrelled with Zola over the novel "L'Aeuvre"; married his mistress, Hortense Fiquet; death of his despotic father, who left him his fortune and with it financial independence. |
| 1889 | at Chocquet's instigation, he exhibited a picture at the Paris World Fair and in 1890 joined the Les Vingt group in Brussels. Visit to Switzerland; contracted diabetes. |
| 1895 | the Paris art dealer Vollard gave him his first large one-man show; as part of the Caillebotte bequest, two of his paintings entered the Musee du Luxembourg. |
| 1896 | became friends with the poet Gasquet, who wrote down Cezanne's views on art; stayed at the spa in Vichy. |
| 1897 | the Berlin National Gallery was presented with one of his paintings as a gift from a collector. |
| 1899 | sale of "Jas de Bouffan"; exhibited with the Independents in Paris. |
| 1900 | exhibited in the century retrospective of French art at the Paris World Fair. |
| 1902 | built a studio at Aix; met with young artists who ad mired his work. |
| 1904 | his paintings were shown for the first time at the Autumn Salon in Paris; the beginning of his influence on 20th-century painting. |
