| 1869 | November 22. Born in Paris. |
| 1880 | Death of his father. |
| 1891 | Attends salons of Mallarme, Heredia.
Les Cahiers d'Andre Walter. |
| 1892 | Le Traite' du Narcisse. An edition of twelve copies was published in 1891.
Les Poesies d'Andre Walter.
Two parts of Le Voyage d'Urien published in La Wallonie, May-June.
First trip to Algeria, with Paul-Albert Laurens. Tuberculosis and convalescence. First homosexual experience at Sousse.
Le Voyage d'Urien.
Le Tentative amoureuse. |
| 1895 | January. Second trip to Algeria. Meets Oscar Wilde, acknowledges homosexuality.
Summer. Death of his mother.
October 8. Marries Madeliene [Emmanuele] Rondeaux.
Paludes. |
| 1896 | Contributes to L'Ermitage.
Les Nourritures terrestres. |
| 1897 | Supports Captain Dreyfus. |
| 1898 | Philoctete.
Le Promethee mal enchaine.
El Hadj. |
| 1900 | Lettres a Angele. |
| 1901-7 | Period of apathy and disquiet. |
| 1901 | Le Roi Candaule. |
| 1902 | L'Immortaliste. |
| 1903 | Pretextes.
Saul. |
| 1906 | Amyntas. |
| 1907 | Le Retour de l'enfant prodigue. |
| 1909 | One of the founders of the Nouvelle Revue francaise.
La Porte etroite. |
| 1911 | Isabelle.
Nouveaux Pretextes. |
| 1912 | On jury of the Rouen Cour d'Assises. |
| 1914-16 | Works at the Foyer Franco-Belge (for Belgian refugees). |
| 1914 | Souvenirs de la Cour Assises.
Les Caves du Vatican. |
| 1916 | Religious crisis; writes most of Numquid et tu ...? |
| 1919 | Begins crucial second part of Si le grain ne meurt.
La Symphonie pastorale. |
| 1921 | Morceaux choisis. |
| 1923 | Birth of Catherine Gide, daughter of Gide and Elisabeth van Rysselberghe.
Dostoievsky. |
| 1924 | Corydon. First published anonymously in 1911, as C.R.D.N.
Incidences. |
| 1925-26 | Trip to Congo and Chad. |
| 1926 | Les Faux-Monnayeurs.
Journal des Faux-Monnayeurs.
Numquid et tu ...? Published anonymously in 1922, but the edition was not for sale.
Si le grain ne meurt... The title-page is dated 1924, but the book was not published until 1926.
Twelve copies of the first part were printed in 1920; thirteen copies of the second part were printed in 1921. These editions were not for sale. |
| 1927 | Voyage au Congo. |
| 1928 | Le Retour du Tchad. |
| 1929 | L'Ecole de femmes.
Robert.
Essai sur Montaigne.
Un Esprit non prevenu. |
| 1930 | L'Affaire Redureau.
La Sequestree de Poitiers. |
| 1931 | Oedipe. |
| 1932-39 | Oeuvres completes, 15 volumes. |
| 1933-36 | Antifascist speeches and articles: presides at various leftist meetings; goes with Malraux to Berlin, to demand release of Dimitrov (1934). |
| 1934 | Persephone. |
| 1935 | Les Nouvelles Nourritures. |
| 1936 | Summer. Disillusioning trip to Soviet Russia.
Genevieve.
Retour de l'U.R.S.S. |
| 1937 | Retouches a mon Retour de l'U.R.S.S. |
| 1938 | Death of his wife. |
| 1939 | Journal, 1889-1939. |
| 1942-45 | In Tunisia and Algeria. |
| 1942 | Interviews imaginaires. |
| 1943 | Attendu que... |
| 1944 | Pages de Journal, 1939-1942. |
| 1946 | Thesee. |
| 1947 | Receives Nobel Prize for Literature. |
| 1948 | Francis Jammes et Andre Gide, Correspondence, 1893-1938.
Notes sur Chopin. |
| 1949 | Anthologie de la poesie francaise.
Paul Claudel et Andre Gide, Correspondence, 1899-1926.
Feuillets d'automne. |
| 1950 | December 13. Premier of Les Caves du Vatican at the Comedie-Francaise.
Journal, 1942-1949.
Litterature engagee. |
| 1951 | February 19. Dies in Paris.
February 22. Buried at Cuverville. |
