September 1874 – born to a Jewish lower-middle-class family in Vienna
1899 – Verklärte Nacht for string sextet (op. 4)
1900-1903 – Gurrelieder for choir, orchestra and soloists (not fully orchestrated until 1910-11)
1904 – Takes on Berg and Webern as composition students; founds concert society “Vereinigung schaffender Tonkünstler” (Union of Creative Musicians) for the promotion of new work, with Gustav Mahler as honorary president
March 1907-August 1908 – String Quartet no. 2, op. 10
March 1908-February 1909 – Das Buch der hängenden Gärten, song cycle on poems by Stefan George, op. 15
February-August 1909 – Drei Klavierstücke op. 11
September 1909 – Erwartung op. 17
1912 – Pierrot Lunaire op. 21
1920-1923 – First works utilising serial technique, the Fünf Klavierstücke op. 23, the Serenade op. 24 and the Suite op. 25
1934 – Schoenberg flees Nazi Germany for the U.S.A.
July 1951 – Dies in Los Angeles