Rodin is born in Paris.

Enters La Petite École, a special school for drawing and mathematics.

Fails in three attempts to be admitted at the prestigious …cole des Beaux-Arts.

Begins to do decorative stonework in order to make his living.

Enters Society of the Blessed Sacrament following the death of his sister Maria.

Leaves religious order after Pierre-Julien Eymard, the father superior, recognizes Rodin's talents and encouraged him to pursue his art.

Meets seamstress Rose Beuret, who would become his life companion and the
model for many of his works; submits his Man with a Broken Nose to the Paris
Salon. It is rejected. Camille Claudel is born.

Travels to Italy and studies the works of Michelangelo.

Eight Rodin sculptures are exhibited at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.

The Age of Bronze causes a scandal when critics find it so realistic they accuse
Rodin of casting a live model.

Receives the commission to create a bronze door for the future Museum of
Decorative Arts (The Gates of Hell).

Meets Camille Claudel, a talented nineteen-year-old sculptor, with whom he would have a fifteen-year affair.

Receives the commission for The Burghers of Calais.

Receives the commissions for a Monument to Victor Hugo to be placed near the
Pantheon and the Monument to Claude Lorrain for the city of Nancy.

Project for the Victor Hugo monument is rejected.

The Societé des Gens de Lettres commissions a Monument to Balzac.

Meets Cézanne; receives commission for Monument to President Sarmiento of
Argentina.

Burghers of Calais is unveiled at Calais.

Breaks off affair with Camille Claudel; Monument to Balzac is exhibited at the Salon and is rejected by The Societé des Gens de Lettres, causing a national scandal.

The first important exhibition devoted to Rodin is seen in Brussels, Rotterdam,
Amsterdam and The Hague.

Rodin’s first major retrospective exhibition opens in conjunction with the
International Exhibition in Paris.

Edward Steichen takes a famous series of photographs at Meudon; Rodin moves
into the Hôtel Biron, outside Paris.

The British Government purchases a cast of The Burghers of Calais, to be
displayed near the Houses of Parliament.

The Rodin Room opens in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Camille Claudel is committed to an asylum.

Rodin falls seriously ill; in three donations, he formally offers his work and
collections to the French State.

Marries Rose Beuret.

Rose dies.

Rodin dies at Meudon.

Rodin is buried on the grounds of his home, beside Rose, with
The Thinker as their monument.

The Musée Rodin opens in the Hôtel Biron, Paris.

The Rodin Museum opens in Philadelphia.