1776-88

E. Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; history.

French Revolution.

First usage of term "art for art's sake" (in France).

E. Delacroix, The Death of Sardanapalus; painting

Theophile Gautier, Mademoiselle de Maupin; novel.

Thomas Couture, The Romans of the Decadence; painting.

Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal; poetry.

C. Darwin, The Origin of Species; science.

Gustave Flaubert, Salammbo; novel.

Cesare Lombroso, The Man of Genius; psychology.

Edouard Manet, Olympia; painting.

D.G. Rossetti, Beata Beatrix; painting.

Gustave Moreau, Oedipus and the Sphinx; painting.

Stephane Mallarme begins "Herodiade;" and "L'Apres midi d'une faun;" poetry.

C. Baudelaire, Complete Works (including translations of Edgar Allan Poe).

Comte de Lautreamont (Isidore Ducasse), Chants de Maldoror; novel.

Franco-Prussian war.

Mallarme, "Herodiade" (fragment) published; poetry.

July; Paul Verlaine shoots Arthur Rimbaud in Brussels.

Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Les Diaboliques; short stories. Later illustrated by F. Rops.

1876

Gustave Moreau, Salome; painting.

S. Mallarme, "L'Apres midi d'un faun" published; also translation of Poe's "The Raven."

Emile Zola, Nana; novel.

George Beard introduces the concept of neuresthenia (nervous exhaustion) in American Nervousness.

Odilon Redon, "A E.A. Poe," series of lithographs.

Paul Bourget, Essais de Psychologie contemporaine; essay.

Joris-Karl Huysmans, A Rebours; novel.

Josephin Peladan, Le Vice Supreme; novel.

Jules Laforgue, Complaintes; poetry.

Odilon Redon, "Hommage a Goya;" lithographs.

Jean Moreas, "Symbolist Manifesto" published in Le Figaro.

Felicien Rops, illustrations to Barbey d'Aurevilly's Les Diaboliques published.

International labor strikes, riots.

Le Decadent litteraire et artistique founded in Paris; Anatole Baju, ed. (continued publication to 1889 as Le Decadent); journal.

Richard Krafft-Ebbing, Psychopathia sexualis; psychology.

1889

Rachilde, Monsieur Venus; novel of androgyny.

Odilon Redon, Temptation of St. Anthony, illustrations to G. Flaubert, 2nd series (1st 1888, 3rd in 1896).

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray; novel.

J.K. Huysmans, La Bas; novel.

Paul Gauguin leaves for Tahiti.

1892

Max Nordau, Degeneration; literary, artistic and social criticism.

Georges Rodenbach, Bruges-la-Morte; novel.

Arthur Symons, "The Decadent Movement in Literature," Harper`s New Monthly Magazine; expanded in 1899 as The Symbolist Movement in Literature; criticism.

Franz von Stuck, Sin; painting (1st of 18 versions).

Jean Delville, Orpheus; painting.

1894

Salome, written by Oscar Wilde; illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley.

The Yellow Book founded in London; journal.

Oscar Wilde trial.

Josef Breuer and Sigmund Freud, Studies on Hysteria; psychology.

1896

Fernand Khnopff, The Caresses; painting.

Fernand Khnopff constructs his house in Brussels.

Gustav Klimt, Judith I; painting.

Klimt's murals rejected by the University of Vienna.