| A.D. | | PAGE |
| 1789. | Overbeck born at Lübeck, 4th July | [1] |
| | His Ancestors for three generations Protestant Pastors | [3] |
| | His father Burgomaster, Doctor of Laws, and Poet | [5] |
| 1800. | His Home Education | [7] |
| 1805. | His First Drawing | [9] |
| 1806. | Leaves Lübeck for Vienna | [9] |
| | Student in Viennese Academy | [10] |
| 1809. | Begins painting Christ's Entry into Jerusalem | [11] |
| 1810. | Rebels against the Viennese Academy, and is expelled | [15] |
| | Leaves Vienna and reaches Rome | [18] |
| 1811. | German Brotherhood of pre‑Raphaelites | [20] |
| | Monastery of Sant' Isidoro, the Dwelling of the Fraternity | [24] |
| | First Commission | [28] |
| 1813. | Overbeck joins the Roman Catholic Church | [33] |
| 1817. | Niebuhr, Bunsen, and Schlegel, literary friends | [34]-[40] |
| 1818. | Frescoes, The History of Joseph, in the Casa Bartholdi | [40] |
| | Frescoes, Jerusalem Delivered, in the Villa Massimo; commission for | [44]-[47] |
| 1819. | Exhibition in Palazzo Caffarelli | [31] |
| | Overbeck marries | [49] |
| 1831. | Fresco, The Vision of St. Francis, finished | [50] |
| | Overbeck visits Germany; returns to Rome | [52]-[61] |
| 1833. | Present at the opening of Raphael's Tomb | [61] |
| 1835. | Christ's Agony in the Garden; oil picture | [63] |
| 1836. | Lo Sposalizio, oil picture, finished | [64] |
| 1840. | The Triumph of Religion in the Arts, oil picture, finished | [65]-[69] |
| | Death of son | [76] |
| 1846. | Pietà, oil picture, finished | [77] |
| 1851. | The Incredulity of St. Thomas, oil picture | [79] |
| 1852. | The Gospels, forty cartoons, finished | [69]-[72] |
| 1853. | Death of wife | [80] |
| 1855. | Assumption of the Madonna, oil picture, finished | [83] |
| | Overbeck revisits Germany; returns to Rome | [84] |
| 1857. | Via Crucis, fourteen water‑colour drawings, finished | [87] |
| | Pope Pius IX. visits the Artist's studio 7th February | [93] |
| 1858. | Christ delivered from the Jews: Quirinal: Tempera Picture | [92] |
| 1861. | The Seven Sacraments, cartoons | [89]-[92] |
| 1869. | Overbeck died the 12th November, aged eighty | [106] |
