| 1841 | born in Limogs as a son of a poor tailor; |
| 1844 | moved to Paris. |
| 1854-1858 | trained as a porcelain painter. |
| 1859/60 | worked at a firm producing painted curtains. |
| 1860-64 | became a pupil of Gleyre; studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, together with Monet, Sisley and Bazille. |
| 1863 | began painting plein-air near Barbizon, under the tutelage of N. Diaz; met Pissarro and Cezanne. |
| 1864 and 1865 | exhibited at the Salon. |
| 1865-1872 | Lise Trehot became his model and lover. |
| 1866 and 1867 | rejected by the Salon, painted portraits in the open-air. |
| 1867 | lived at Bazille's house with Monet. |
| 1868-1870 | shared a studio with Bazille in the Batignolles quarter, frequented the Cafe Guerbois; met Manet; exhibited at the Salon. |
| 1869 | with Monet at Bougival on the Seine; together they worked out the main tenets of the Impressionist method. |
| 1870/71 | military service in the war. |
| 1872 | rejected by the Salon, he called for a Salon des Refuses; DurandRuel exhibited one of his pictures for the first time in London. |
| 1873 | met the critic Duret; painted with Monet at Argenteuil; a frequent customer in this period at the Cafe de la Nouvelle-Athenes. |
| 1874 | exhibited at the tst Impressionist exhibition. |
| 1875 | had some pictures auctioned at the Hótel Drouot; met the art collector Choquet. |
| 1876 | exhibited at the 2nd Impressionist exhibition; visited A. Daudet at Chaprosay; received commissions from the publisher Charpentier; his favourite themes became pictures of the middle-class at leisure and portraits. |
| 1877 | exhibited at the 3rd Impressionist exhibition; again had some pictures auctioned. |
| 1878-1881 | exhibited at the Salon but not at Impressionist exhibitions. |
| 1879 | one-man exhibition at the gallery of Charpentier's journal "La Vie moderne"; first visu to the Berard family in Wargemont (Normandy). |
| 1880 | met his future wife, Aline Charigot; broke his right arm and painted with his left hand. |
| 1881 | travelled to Algeria, later to Italy; impressed by Raphael and the Pompeii frescoes. |
| 1882 | painted a portrait of the composer Wagner at Palermo; visited Cezanne at L'Estaque. Durand-Rue1 exhibited pictures by him at the 7th lmpressionist exhibition and in London. 1883 one-man exhibition at the Galerie Durand-Ruel; exhibited also at the Salon and in London, Boston and Berlin. Visited Jersey, Guernsey and the Cóte d'Azur. Formal characteristics of his work at this time include clearly delineated, three- dimensional human figures. |
| 1884 | formed a friendship with Morisot. |
| 1885 | exhibited for the first time at Essoyes, Aline's home village. |
| 1886 | exhibitions with the group Les Vingt in Brussels, in New York through Durand-Ruel, and in Paris through G. Petit; he did not exhibit at the last Impressionist exhibition. |
| 1889 | refused to exhibit at the World Fair in Paris. |
| 1890 | married Aline; they had three sons. Rejected the award of the Legion of Honour; exhibited for the last time at the Salon. Returned to the rich colours and free brushwork of his earlier days and painted maimy nudes and landscapes. |
| 1892 | first sale of a painting to the French stare made possible by Mallarme; large single exhibition at Durand-Ruel's; travelled in Spain and Pont-Aven. |
| 1894 | became the executor of Caillebotte's bequest of Impressionist paintings to the French stale. |
| 1896 | tour of Germany; visited Bayreuth and Dresden. |
| 1897 | broke his arm after falling from a bicycle. |
| 1898 | visited Holland. |
| 1899 | due to rheumatism, moved to the South of France. |
| 1900 | exhibited at the century exhibition of French art at the World Fair in Paris; became Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. Increasing numbers of exhibitions abroad. |
| 1902 | his health deteriorated - at the end his hands were almost paralysed with arthritis. |
| 1904 | exhibited for the first time at the Autumn Salon. |
| 1907 | bought the house "Les Colettes" in Cagnes. |
| 1910 | retrospective at the 9th Biennale in Venice; visu to Munich. |
| 1911 | Officer of the Legion of Honour. |
| 1913 | began to do sculptures with the help of R. Guino. |
| 1915 | death of his wife. |
| 1919 | Commander of the Legion of Honour; honoured with the hanging of one of his pictures in the Louvre. |
