June 9, 1893 - Birth of Edouard Joseph Goerg in Sidney (Australia), son of Gustave Goerg, manager of the Irroy family champagne business in Australia, and Blanche Adet (half-Irish, half-Bordelais).

1894 - The family moves to London

1900 - Arrival in Paris, 111, rue de Longchamp (XVI°)

1903 - Studies at Gerson then Janson-de-Sailly

c. 1910 - E.G. decides to become a painter, against the advice of his father, who wants him to join his business. 

1912 - Enrolled at the Académie Ranson, where he studied under Maurice Denis and Paul Sérusier.

Moves into a studio at 9, rue Campagne Première (XIV°) 

1913 - Study trip to Italy (Florence, Assisi and Siena).

1914 - Travels to India. Rushed back to France when war was declared. 

Mobilised, he is sent to the Somme, Champagne and the Ardennes.

1915 - E. G. volunteers for the Army of the East (18 months).

1919 - Demobilised, he returns to the Académie Ranson where he meets Andrée Berolzheimer, whom he marries the following year.

1920 Exhibits for the first time at the Salon des Indépendants.

May-June 1921 - Trip to Italy.
1922 - First solo exhibition, at the Galerie Panardie.

Received at the Salon d'Automne

1923 - Meets Jean-Emile Laboureur at the Galerie Druet, who introduces him to Marcel Gromaire and encourages him to make etchings.

1924 - E.G. began to distinguish himself, his technique, style and repertoire asserted themselves, he denounced the failings of the bourgeois society from which he came, he was caustic, biting, his subjects distorted to the point of caricature.

Birth of his daughter Claude-Lise

1925 - Solo exhibition at Galerie Berthe Weill in Paris

1926 - Solo exhibition, Galerie du Centaure, Brussels.

Moves to Cité Seurat (101, rue de la Tombe Issoire, XIV°) in a studio house  

house-built by André Lurçat, co-owned with Marcel Gromaire.

Appointed a member of the Salon d'Automne

1928 - Meets Paul Guillaume, through whom he exhibits in Boston and at the Art Institute of Chicago
1929 - Solo exhibition at Georges Bernheim.

Waldemar George publishes his first monograph with Editions G.Crès et Cie in the richly illustrated collection ‘Les Artistes Nouveaux’

1934 - E. G. changed his style and subjects: the events of 6 February 1934, the rise of fascism in Europe and the Spanish war inspired a series of so-called fantastic works.

May-June, 1935 - Exhibition of his recent works at Jeanne Castel's.

Meets Aragon and takes part in the activities of the Association des Ecrivains et Artistes Révolutionnaires.
First Salon du Temps présent, E.G. is a member of the organising committee, chaired by André Lhote. 

Travels in Belgium and Holland

May, 1936 - E. G. took part in the first debate on Realism and Painting, organised by the Maison de la Culture.

February, 1937 - E. G. left with 6 other members of the A.E.A.R. (Cabrol, Jannot, Labasque, Lauze, Lefranc and Masereel) on a delegation to Barcelona.
Participates with 9 paintings in the exhibition ‘Les Maîtres de l'art indépendant 1897-1937’ at the Petit-Palais.

Joined the Société des Peintres Graveurs Français

1938 - Moves into a private mansion at 11, rue Ducouédic, XIV° Paris.

1939 - With the outbreak of war, as if in defiance of the occupying forces, his painting turned to feminine and floral themes: ‘flower-women’, which he painted until the end of his life.

1940 - Signs a contract with the Galerie Drouant

1941 - Remains in Paris throughout the Occupation

1942 - Exhibition at Galerie Drouant-David

1944 - Death of his wife Andrée, he is totally despondent, and only shock treatment will restore his health .

Takes up lithography.

In June, collaborates on the album Vaincre, published by the Front National des Peintres to benefit the Francs Tireurs et Partisans Français.

1945 - President of the Société des Peintres-Graveurs français (until 1958)

Illustrates L'Apocalypse de Saint-Jean (J. Haumont éditeur)

1946 - Appointed professor of engraving at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

Excursion to Grisons (August 7-16) with Albert Marquet, offered by the Swiss government to a group of Parisian artists
1947 - Gaston Diehl dedicates a book to him, the first in the Art-Présent collection, published by Editions de Clermont.

Illustrates Les Fleurs du Mal, edited by Marcel Sautier.

Second marriage to Marie-Louise Caccia, known as Elena

1949 - Winner of the Hallmark Prize with La nativité aux oiseaux.
Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur.

Exhibition in London

1950 - First prize for engraving in Lugano.

Exhibition at Galerie Visconti.

Professor at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière  

1952 - Publication of the second volume of Les Fleurs du Mal 

1954 - Participates in the Venice Biennale Exhibitions in Cairo, Alexandria and Beirut and at Galerie Drouant-David

1955 - Exhibitions in Sao-Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Buenos-Aires

1956 - Exhibitions in Nantes (Mignon-Massart), Reims (André Droulez), Nancy (Librairie des Arts, engravings), Strasbourg (Aktarius) and Lausanne (Maurice Bridel and Nane Cailler).

1957 - Acquires property in Callian (Var)

1960 - Permanently leaves Paris and the Paris region to settle in Callian

1963 - Exhibition of his engraved work at the Bibliothèque Nationale

1965 - Appointed member of the Institut à l'Académie des Beaux-Arts.

Waldemar George devotes a major monograph to him, published by Pierre Cailler in Geneva

April 13, 1969 - Death in Callian