Chronology
1839 Daguerreotype presented
1848 Communist Manifesto
1848-52 Revolution in Europe
1859 Charles Darwin publishes Origin of Species
1859 Monet comes to Paris and enters the Swiss Academy.
1860 Monet meets Pissaro and Courbet.
1863 Monet discovers Manet's painting and paints "en plein air" in the Fontainebleau forest.
1863 Salon of Refusals
1861-65 American Civil War
1874 Monet exhibits "Impression Sunrise" at the first Impressionist exhibition in the studio of Nadar.
1883 Monet rents a house at Giverny. He will stay there for 43 years.
1884 1st Salon des Artistes Independants (Salon of Independents)
1886 8th and last Impressionist exhibition
1887 Monet exhibits in New-York thanks to Durand-Ruel.
1889 Monet exhibits with Rodin.
1890 Monet purchases the house in Giverny and begins the digging for the Water-Lily pond.
1891 First movie camera patented
1900 Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
1903 First flight of the Wright brothers
1905-15 Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity
1907 First problems with his eyesight.
1914-18 World War I
1916 The artist decides to build a large studio of 23 m x 12m at Giverny.
1916 - 1926 Claude Monet works on twelve large canvas, The Water Lilies. Following the signing of the Armistice, Monet offers to donate them to France. Theses paintings will be installed in an architectural space designed specifically for them at the museum of the Orangerie in Paris.
1923 Monet is nearly blind. He has an operation from the cataract in one eye. His sight improves.
1926 In February Monet is still painting. But he suffers from lung cancer. He dies on December 5th. He is buried in a simple ceremony at Giverny. His friend Georges Clémenceau attends the ceremony.
