| Biography |
| 1927 | Born 19th October in Brussels. |
| 1944 | Studies typography and book illustration at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture et des Arts Décoratifs (La Cambre) in Brussels. He begins to paint. |
| 1947 | Travels to Morocco and Yugoslavia. Joins the group 'Jeune Peinture Belge'. |
| 1949 | Marries Michèle (Micky), daughter of Belgian painter André Dendal.
Creates Research Centre, an artists' collective for CoBrA in the Ateliers du Marais, Brussels. Goes on to make prints |
| 1952 | Studies etching technique with Stanley William Hayter. |
| 1955 | Travels to Japan to study calligraphy. |
| 1961 | Travels to the USA for an exhibition at the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh. First visit to New York; resides with Walasse Ting. |
| 1965 | Begins to use acrylic paint. Paints Central Park, his first painting with 'marginal remarks'. |
| 1972 | Exhibits at the Belgian pavilion at the 36th Venice Biennale. |
| 1983 | Appointed professor at École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris (until 1987). |
| 1987 | Margin and Center, a major retrospective of paintings with marginal remarks to coincide with the artist's 60th birthday at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Appointed as associate of the Académie Royale de Belgique. |
| 1994 | Receives honourary doctorate from the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Executes Unleafables with Hans Spinner, writings and brush drawings on porcelain 'books'. |
| 1997 | Publishes Remarques marginales (Gallimard). Subject of a film, The Eye of a Painter, by Pierre Dumayet. |
| 2002 | Alechinsky, The Complete Books (Ceuleers & va de Velde, Antwerp) is published. |
| 2007 | Alechinsky from A to Y, a major retrospective ro coincide with the artist's 80th birthday at the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels. |