1899
20 June, Jean Moulin born in Béziers.

1913
Election of his father, Antoine-Emile Moulin, to the General Council of the Hérault
representing the canton of Béziers.

1917
Baccalauréat exams then entry into the faculty of law at Montpellier. Attached to the office of the Prefect of the Hérault.

1918
17 April, called up into the 2nd Engineer Regiment.

1919
Returns to Montpellier, resumes law studies and his post as attaché to the Prefect's office.

1921
Joins the Jeunesse Laïques et Républicaines movement (lay republican youth movement).

1922
6 February, appointed private secretary to the Prefect of Savoie.

1925
20 November, sub-prefect of Savoie (Albertville).

1930
16 January, sub-prefect of Finistère (Châteaulun).

1932-1933
December-February, special advisor to Pierre Cot, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

1933
10 June, sub-prefect of Haute-Savoie (Thonon).

1933-1934
October - February, on the staff of Pierre Cot, Minister for Air.

1934
26 February, sub-prefect attached, at his own request, to the Prefecture of the Seine
1 July, general secretary at the Prefecture of the Somme (Amiens).

1936- 1937
July 1936 - May 1937, private secretary to Pierre Cot at the Air Ministry.

1937
2 March, appointed Prefect of the Aveyron. Remains only one month in the post.

1938
End January to mid-April, private secretary to Pierre Cot at the Ministry of Trade and Industry.
17 April, death of his father, Antonin Moulin.
1 June, resumes his post as Prefect of the Aveyron (Rodez).

1939
21 February, Prefect of the Eure-et-Loir.
13-26 December, called up to Air Force Base 117 in Paris but ordered back to his post as Prefect by the Ministry of the Interior.

1940
14 June, bombing of Chartres, the inhabitants begin fleeing.
17 June, Jean Moulin arrested by the Germans. On refusing to sign a "protocol" which he deemed slanderous to the French Army, he was physically beaten and attempted to cut his own throat.
22 June, Jean Moulin resumes his functions.
2 November, Jean Moulin is dismissed by the Vichy government.
December, officially installed at Saint-Andiol.

1941
January-March, initial contacts with Resistance groups in the southern zone.
April, meeting with Frenay, in the southern zone, head of the Mouvement de Libération Nationale.
9 September, Jean Moulin leaves Marseilles with visas for Spain and Portugal.
12 October, staying in Lisbon where he draws up his report.
25 October, first meeting with de Gaulle.
24 December, General de Gaulle appoints him delegate of the French National Committee for the non-occupied zone.

1942
2 January, parachuted into the south of France (Eygalières).
March, first radio communication with London.
April, creation of the Bureau d'Information et de la Propagande and the Comité Général des Études.
July, Daniel Cordier becomes general secretary to Jean Moulin.
September, creation of the NAP.
16 October, official request for the opening of the Romanin gallery, 22 rue de France in Nice.
17 October, made a Compagnon de la Libération.
22 October, creation of the Committee for the Coordination of the southern zone, headed by Jean Moulin.
November, Delestraint appointed commander of the united Secret Army.
27 November, first meeting of the Committee of Coordination, chaired by Jean Moulin.

1943
26 January, creation of the Mouvements Unis de Résistance, (united resistance movements).
9 February, opening of the Romanin gallery in Nice.
15 February, Moulin pays a second visit to London where de Gaulle awards him the Croix de la Libération, appoints him delegate general for France and instructs him to set up the National Council of the Resistance.
8 May, Moulin announces to de Gaulle the creation of the National Council of the Resistance.
27 May, Jean Moulin presides over the inaugural session of the National Council of the Resistance in Paris.
9 June, General Delestraint arrested in Paris.
21 June, Jean Moulin arrested in Caluire, near Lyons.
July, Jean Moulin dies on a train during deportation to Germany.

1945
16 January, Jean Moulin is restored to the ranks of prefects as Prefect 3rd class as of 16 November 1940, then promoted to 1st class on 16 November 1943 and placed "in expectation".

1946
26 November, Jean Moulin is posthumously awarded the rank of Brigadier as part of the Réseau Action (Action Network).

1964
19 December, his ashes are transferred to the Panthéon; the funeral oration is made by André Malraux.