1821 – Charles Pierre Baudelaire was born 9th of April in Paris.
Baudelaire was educated in Lyon and at the Collège Louis-le-Grand in Paris.
1839 – He decided to embark upon a literary career due to somewhat irregular life.
1845-1846 – His art reviews attracted immediate attention for the boldness with which he propounded his views.
1846-1847 – Acquainted with the works of Edgar Allan Poe, in which he found tales and poems.
1848 – He took part in the revolutionaries and was interested in republican politics.
1857 – Baudelaire produced his first and most famous volume of poems, Les Fleurs du mal ("The Flowers of Evil").
1858 – Wrote on Théophile Gautier (Revue contemporaine, September, 1858); various articles contributed to Eugene Crepet’s Poètes francais.
1861 – Financial difficulties increased, particularly after his publisher Poulet Malassis went bankrupt.
1864 – Left Paris for Belgium, partly in the hope of selling the rights to his works.
1865 – Occupied with his translated versions of Poe’s works.
1866 – Suffered a massive stroke and paralysis.
1867 – Spent his life in "maisons de santé" in Brussels and in Paris, where he died on 31st of August.