1868 – Birth in Tournay (Hautes-Pyrénées), 2nd December.

1876 – Move to St. Palais (Basque Country), his father being appointed Registration Officer there.

1880-1888 – The Bordeaux years. Primary and secondary School. Jammes fails his Baccalaureat. The first poems in a notebook called “Moi”. (M.S. now in Pau Municipal Library).

1888 – Jammes very moved by his father’s death on the 3rd December. His mother moves to Orthez, home of the “Huguenot” aunt Célanire, with her children Marguerite and Francis.

1889-1897 – Jammes lives at his mother’s house, 8, rue St.-Pierre, a house on the banks of the Grec, whose “crumbling tiles are as rusty as the keys of Heaven ”. His sister marries in 1890.

1891 – Six Sonnets, published at Orthez.

1892-1894 – Three booklets entitled Verses, printed at Orthez.

1897-1907 – Change of adress to the Maison Chrestia (now the seat of the Francis Jammes Society).
De l’Angélus de l’aube à l’Angélus du soir – From the Angelus at dawn to the Angelus at dusk (1898), Clara d’Ellébeuse – Clara d’Ellebeuse (1899), Le Deuil des Primevères (1901), Almaïde d’Etremont (1901), Le Roman du Lièvre – Romance of the Rabbit (1903), Pomme d’Anis (1904).

1905 – Jammes becomes a practising Catholic after his conversion. Tristesses.

1906 – Pensées des Jardins, L’Eglise habillée de Feuilles, Clairières dans le ciel.

1907 – Wedding, 8th October, at Bucy-le-Long (Aisne), to Ginette Gœdorp.
1907-1921 – Jammes moves to the Maison Major, Chemin La Peyrère. Seven Children are born there.
Poèmes mesurés (1908), Rayons de Miel (1908), Ma fille Bernadette – My Daughter Bernadette (1910), La Brebis égarée (1910), Les Géorgiques chrétiennes (1912), Feuilles dans le vent (1913), Le Rosaire au soleil (1916), Le Curé d’Ozeron (1918), La Vierge et les Sonnets (1919), Le Poète Rustique (1920), Le Livre de Saint-Joseph (1921), Le Tombeau de Jean de La Fontaine (1921).
1921-1938 – After an inheritance, Jammes moves to Hasparren (Basque Country), Maison Eyhartzea.
Les 4 livres des Quatrains (1923-1925), Cloches pour deux mariages (1924), Ma France poétique (1926), Basses-Pyrénées (1926), Lavigerie (1927), Le Rêve franciscain (1935), Le Pèlerin de Lourdes (1936), Sources (1936).
1st November 1938 – Death of Francis Jammes. The poet is buried in the cimetery of Hasparren.