| 1845-1859 | grew up in Le Havre as the son of a minor merchant. |
| 1858 | exhibited a painting he had done under the tutelage of Boudin. |
| 1859 | moved to Paris; the Barbizon painter Troyon gave help and advice. |
| 1860 | studied at the Academie Suisse; met Pissarro and Courbet. |
| 1861 | military service in AIgeria. |
| 1862 | met Jongkind in Le Havre. |
| 1862/63 | studied at Gleyre's studio in Paris; friendship with Bazille, Renoir, Sisley; impressed by Manet. |
| 1863 | began plein-air painting at Chailly near Barbizon and at Honfleur. |
| 1865 | exhibited for the first time at the Salon; friendship wich Zola, Cezanne, Manet; liaison with Camille Doncieux, with whom he had two sons. In Chailly he painted a plein-air figural composition that was to excel those of Manet. |
| 1866 | success at the Salon; painted in Sainte-Adresse and other localities, becoming increasingly impressive in his use of bright colours. |
| 1867 | he and Renoir were accepted by Bazille at his studio; rejected by the Salon; first broached the idea of a group exhibition. |
| 1868 | exhibited at the Salon. Dire financial difficulties. Painted at Bennecourt and Fecamp; a frequent customer at the Cafe Guerbois. |
| 1869 | rejected by the Salon; with Renoir in Bougival on the Seine he worked out fully the formal techniques of the new Impressionist style. |
| 1870 | rejected once more by the Salon; married Camille; painted with Boudin in Trouville. When the Franco-Prussian War broke out, he moved to London, where he studied pictures by Turner and Constable. Through Daubigny he became acquainted with Durand-Ruel. |
| 1871 | exhibition organised by Durand-Ruel in London; trip to Holland. |
| 1871-1878 | lived in Argenteuil. |
| 1872 | painted in Le Havre ("Impression: Sunrise") and Holland. |
| 1873 | formed a friendship with Caillebotte; founding of a group of artists. |
| 1874 | first exhibition of the new group in Paris, referred to mockingly as the "Impressionists". 1876 met the department store owner and art collector Hoschede; 2nd Impressionist exhibition. |
| 1877 | 3rd Impressionist exhibition. |
| 1878-1881 | lived in Vetheuil with his family and with Alice Hoschede and her six children. |
| 1879 | death of Camille; 4th Impressionist exhibition. |
| 1880 | exhibition of a picture at the Salon. Due to a quarrel about planning arrangements he did not take part in the next two Impressionist exhibitions. Began to concentrate more and more on landscape painting; successful one-man exhibition at Charpentier's journal, "La vie moderne". |
| 1881-1883 | in Poissy, painted also on the coast of Normandy. |
| 1882 | took part for the last time in an Impressionist exhibition. |
| 1883 | finally settled in Giverny; also painted in Etretat. Large exhibition at the Durand-Ruel gallery. Travelled with Renoir to the Mediterranean; visited Cezanne. |
| 1884 | on the Riviera and in Etretat. |
| 1885 | exhibited for the first time with Durand-Ruel's competitor, G. Petit; met Maupassant in Etretat. |
| 1886 | exhibited with Les Vingt in Brussels and in New York through Durand-Ruel. Painted in Etretat, Holland and Belle-Ile (Brittany), where he met the critic Geffroy. |
| 1888 | exhibition through Theo van Gogh at the Boussod & Valadon gallery; painted in Antibes. |
| 1889 | at the century exhibition of French art at the Paris World Fair; successful joint exhibition with Rodin at Petit's; painted in Fresselines (Creus). |
| 1890 | collected donations enabling Manet's "Olympia" to be purchased for the stater bought a house at Giverny. |
| 1891-1912 | repeatedly successful exhibitions of series paintings at the Durand-Ruel, Petit and Bernheim-Jeune galleries; became increasingly popular abroad. |
| 1892 | married Alice Hoschede after her husband's death. |
| 1893 | began the creation of his famous garden with lily ponds at Giverny, which became the source of his most important motifs. |
| 1895 | travelled in Norway. |
| 1897 | exhibited at the Biennale in Venice. |
| 1898 | supported Zola in the Dreyfus affair. |
| 1899-1901 | made several visits to London, painted the Thames in mist. |
| 1904 | travelled in his own car to Madrid. |
| 1908/09 | two trips to Venice; his eyesight began to fail. |
| 1911 | depression after the death of his wife Alice. |
| 1914 | idea broached by his friend Clemenceau to donate a series of paintings of water lilies to the French state; worked on these umil his death. |
| 1920 | rejected the offer of membership of the Institut de France. |
