1922 Born Lucian Michael, 8 December in Berlin, to Jewish parents. 1933 - 8 Moves to Britain with family. Begins boarding at the progressive Dartington Hall school near Totnes, Devon, then at Bryanston 1938 Sigmund Freud arrives in London. 1939 Becomes a naturalised British subject. Death of Sigmund Freud. 1939-42 Studies at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, London, then at the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing, Dedham under Cedric Morris. 1941 Serves on North Atlantic convoy for three months. Returns to Morris's school, re-opened at Benton End, Hadleigh. 1944 First one-man exhibition at Alex Reid and Lefevre Gallery. 1946 Spends two months in Paris, and joins John Craxton on the Greek island of Poros for five months. 1948 Marries Kitty Garman, daughter of Kathleen Garman and Jacob Epstein. 1949-1954 Visiting tutor at the Slade School of Fine Art. 1951 Receives Purchase Prize from Arts Council of Great Britain for Interior in Paddington exhibited in Sixty Paintings for '51 as part of the Festival of Britain. 1953 Marries Caroline Blackwood. 1954 Represents Britain at the 27th Venice Biennale of Art with Ben Nicholson and Francis Bacon. 1970 Death of his father, Ernst Freud. 1972 Paints the first in a series of paintings of his mother which continues until the mid-1980s. 1974 First retrospective exhibition, organised by the Arts Council of Great Britain at the Hayward Gallery, London, and touring. 1983 Created Companion of Honour. 1987 Selects The Artist's Eye exhibition at the National Gallery, London. 1987-8 Retrospective exhibition organised by the British Council at the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, and travelling to Paris, London and Berlin; the first major representation of Freud's work shown outside Britain. 1989 Death of his mother, Lucie Freud. 1993 Awarded the Order of Merit. 2000 Paints After Chardin for Encounters: New Art from Old at National Gallery, London. 2002 Lucian Freud at Tate Britain. Constable, selected by Freud, at the Grand Palais, Paris.