1863-
December 12
Edvard Munch is born to Christian Munch and Laura Catherine in the city of Loton, Norway. He was the second of five children.

1864-
The family moves to the city of Oslo. Edvard begins his art training.

1868-
Edvard's mother dies of tuberculosis when he is only five. This perhaps is the inspiration for Dead Mother. His aunt Karen Bjolstad takesd over the household.

1877-
His sister Sophie (who was 15) dies also of tuberculosis, perhaps the inspiration for The Sick Child.

1879-
November
He joins a Technical Collage

1880-
He leaves the Technical Collage to work harder at his art.

1881-
Edvard enters a school of design deciding to take the modeling class after trying freehand.

1882-
Edvard rents a studio with six other artists. It was supervised by Christian Krohg.

1885-
May
Munch recives a scholarship from Frits Thaulow. He travels to Paris. He stays for three weeks and then spends his summer at Borre, then returning to Oslo and his work starts to become known.

1886-
Munch paints The Sick Child. He creates several versions.
Munch's father dies. Yet another death in his family.

1889-1892-
Scholarships allow Munch to live in France. He returns to Norway ever summer.

1890-
Munch goes to France
November-
He is hospitalized due to Rheumatic Fever for two months.
Five of his paintings are destroyed by a fire in Oslo.

1892-
Six of Munch's paintings are exhibited in a large art show in Berlin. The series was called the Frieze of Lide. The created a shock causing authorities to close down the show. Censorship sucked even then. Munch was only expressing himself in his own way and people were afriad of it, just as people always are afraid of things they don't understand.

1895-
Munch's brother Andreas dies.

1902-
Munch loses the joint of a finger on his left hand from a wound of a gunshot. He exhbits twenty-two artworks fro the Frieze of Life

1904-
This was an important year for his art. He makes contracts with Bruno Casirer in Berlin, and Commeter in Hamburg so that his work could be sold in Germany.

1908-
Munch has an anxiety attack and is hospitalized due to a nervous breakdown. Supposidly it was brought on by drinking and depression (not a good combination. He recovers after an electroshock treatment.

1909-
Munch has an exhibition of one hundred oils and two hundred graphics. They were landscapes and life size male portraits.

1915-
He went to his third American show. The show was in San Francisco, and he won an award, a gold medal, for his graphics. Also he began to give financial to young German artists.

1917-
A book was published in Berlin. It was called Edvard Munch.

1926-
Munch's sister Laura, dies.

1930-
Munch has afflicted eye trouble which recurs for the rest of his life.

1931-
His aunt Karen Bjolstad dies.

1937-
Eighty-two of his works in the German museums were branded as "degenerate" and they were confiscated and sold.

1940-1944-
Munch continues to paint and make prints.

1944-
January 23-
Edvard dies at the age of 80.