| Timeline |
| 1898 |
Born 17 June in Leeuwarden |
| 1903 |
Family moves to Arnhem, Holland |
| 1917 |
Family moves to Oosterbeek, Holland |
| 1918 |
Attends Technical College in Delft |
| 1919 |
Attends the School for Architecture and Decorative Arts in Haarlem, takes lessons with S. Jessurun de Mesquita |
| 1921 |
Illustrates Flor de Pascua with woodcuts |
| 1922 |
Moves to Italy for the next 13 years |
| 1923 |
First one-man exhibition is held in Sienna |
| 1924 |
First exhibition in Holland |
| 1924 |
Marries Jetta Umiker
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| 1926 |
Exhibition in Rome - 'Gruppo Romano Incisori Artisti'
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| 1934 |
Exhibits at the Dutch Historical Institute in Rome |
| 1935 |
The Escher family moves to Switzerland |
| 1937 |
The Escher family moves to Brussels, Belgium |
| 1940 |
The German occupation forces the Escher's to move to The Netherlands, the following year finds him in Baarn, Holland - where he spends the rest of his life |
| 1954 |
Large one-man exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in conjunction with the International Mathematical Conference |
| 1955 |
Receives the Knighthood of the Order of Oranje Nassau |
| 1958 |
Regelmatige vlak verdeling (The Regular Division of the Plane), written and illustrated by Escher is published
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| 1960 |
Escher holds an exhibition and lectures in conjunction with the Congress of the International Union of Crystallography in Cambridge, England |
| 1972 |
Dies 27 March |
