1857	Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal; poetry.
1873	Walter Pater, The Renaissance; criticism.
1876	Gustave Moreau, Salome; painting. Stephane Mallarme, "L'Apres midi d'un faun;" poetry; also Mallarme's translation of Edgar A. Poe's "The Raven."
1884	Joris-Karl Huysmans, Au Rebours; novel.
1886	Symbolist manifesto, by poet, Jean Moreas. Le Symboliste founded in Paris; journal. Pont Aven, Gauguin's influence.
1888	Paul Gauguin, The Vision After the Sermon: Jacob Wrestling with the Angel; painting. Paul Serusier, The Talisman; painted under Gauguin's direction.
1890	Nabis founded.
1891	First Nabis exhibition.
1896	Gustave Moreau, Jupiter and Semele; painting.
1899	Arthur Symons, The Symbolist Movement in Literature published; criticism.