May 22nd 1907 Georges Prosper Rémi was born in Etterbeek near Brussels from Alexis Rémi and Elisabeth Dufour (both in textile factories).

1920 The young man starts his secondary studies in "collège Saint -Boniface" in Brussels where he becomes quickly bored.

1921 He becomes part of the scout team in his school where he will be given the nickname of "Renard curieux" (nosy fox). His first drawing were published in the school magazine called "Jamais assez" (never enough). And later in a monthly Belgian scout magazine called "Le boy-scout Belge" (The Belgian boy-scout).

1924 He decides to sign his drawing by Hergé which are his initials (RG).

1925 His studies finished, Georges Rémi is working in a journal called "Le Vingtième Siècle" (The 20th century) as an employee in the subscription services.

1926 Creation of Totor, Chef de patrouille des Hannetons, in "Le boy-scout Belge".

1927 Georges Rémi goes in the military army.

1930 Creation of Quick et Flupke, boys from Brussels and actors of short story in "le Petit Vingtième" (The little 20th). Publication of the first album of Tintin "Tintin, reporter au pays des Soviets" (Tintin journalist in the land of the Soviets).

1932 Georges Rémi marries Germaine Kieckens, the Vingtième Siècle's director's secretary.

1934 Creation of "L'Atelier Hergé", a smart art studio designed to handle the numerous requests to create commercial and advertising illustrations.

1935 Hergé creates a new series and new characters Jo, Zette et Jocko for the weekly magazine "Coeurs vaillants". Five albums will be published

1936 Hergé creates yet one more comics series, "Jo, Zette & Jocko" this time at the request of Abbot Courtois, the editor of Coeurs Vaillant, who expressed the desire to see a series featuring real children.

1939 After having stated his opinion for Chinese people in the Blue Lotus, Hergé was invited by Chiang Kai-shek's wife to go in China.

But as the war in Europe was starting, Hergé could not go in China.

May 10th 1940 Belgium is taken over by German troops. The two magazines "Le Vingtième Siècle" and "Le Petit Vingtième" vanishes. Tintin in the land of Black Gold, the episode that Hergé was going to publish is broken off for eight years.

Hergé starts another one called the crab with the golden claws and publishes it in the newspaper "Le Soir" (The evening). That was the only newspaper that German troops allowed to be publish.

1942 The publisher Casterman wants Hergé to adapt his episodes already published into standard albums of 64 pages in colours.

September 3rd 1944 The liberation of Belgium interrupt the publication of the adventures of Tintin in "Le Soir". Hergé was seen as a collaborator because he could publish in a newspaper which was allowed.

1945 Hergé works on his first albums in order to publish them in the new standard norm.

September 26th 1946 The first Tintin magazine is published. It was a weekly newspaper for young people created by Raymond Leblanc.

1950 Starting to create a new album "Explorers on the moon", Hergé needed to have some technical documents. he decided to create "Studios Hergé" with some contributors. Other renowned artists, such as Bob De Moor, Jacques Martin and Roger Leloup, joined his staff.
"Popol and Virginie" was reformed, recoloured and published in 1952, and with the help of Jacques Martin a final episode of "Jo, Zette & Jocko" was completed and published in 1954.

Hergé's physical and mental health, however suffers from additional demands and pressures put upon him, and twice he is forced to stop work on Tintin.

February 17th 1954 Hergé and his wife are involved in a car accident.

1955 As Tintin having a very big success, advertisers are interested by this character. Hergé is also developing a collection of coloured pictures where Tintin acts in order to demonstrate different knowledge.

1956 Hergé begins secret relationship with 22-year-old colourist, Fanny Vlamynck, who had been hired by the studios in 1952.

1958 Hergé becomes estranged from his wife, undergoes psychoanalysis and seeks spiritual guidance. This tumultuous period produces his best ans most personal Tintin adventure, Tintin in Tibet. He is portrayed as Captain Haddock who proposes to sacrifice hiself in order not to cause Tintin's death as well. Conscious and unconscious reflexion of the pain felt over the break up of his first marriage.

Tintin in Tibet was going to be replaced by some other stories Hergé was working on. Hergé asked Greg for possible collaboration. Two stories were written and partially developed, "Le thermozero" and "Les pillules", both involving Tintin rescuing a secret agent and becoming involved with a cold bomb in the first case and some radioactive pills in the latter. Hergé also toyed for a time with a remake of "Tintin in America", and a story in which Captain Haddock's butler, Nestor, was framed for murder by his former employer, the Bird Brother.

1960 Tintin starts a new career in the cinema. A Belgian man named Jean-Pierre Talbot will act as Tintin in "Tintin et le mystère de la "Toison d'Or"" (Tintin and the mystery of the golden vlies). The actor will do it again in 1964 in "Tintin et les oranges bleues" (Tintin and the blues oranges).
French président Général De Gaulle called the character "his international rival".

Georges Rémi discover the contemporary art which becomes a real interest. He separates with his wife.

1969 "Les studios Belvision" of Brussels produces an animated cartoon from the album "Prisoners of the sun".

1971 Hergé meets the Red Skins during his first trip to United-States.

1973 The Casterman Editions publishes the first volume of Hergé's Archives. That is how "Tintin, reporter du Petit Vingtième au pays des Soviets" appears again 40 years after his first publication.

Hergé visits Taiwan 35 years after the official invitation he first had.

1976 A documentary called "Moi, Tintin" by Numa Sadoul is dedicated to the hero and his creator. September 29th a bronze statue of Tintin and Snowy is inaugurated in Brussels.

1977 As the divorce with his first wife is proclaimed, Georges Rémi marries Fanny Vlamynck.

1979 The Pop Art artist Andy Warhol paints a series of four portraits of Hergé. The "birth" of Tintin is commemorated. And the fifth birthday of this character is also celebrated with the stamps issued by "la Régie Belge des Postes", with expositions in the imaginary Museum of Tintin...

1981 Emotional reunion between Hergé and Tchang Tchong-jen (Chang Chong Chen) the Chinese friend who had inspired The Blue Lotus 45 years before.

1982 To celebrate the seventy-fifth Hergé's Birthday the Belgium Astronomy Society "Jean Meeus" offers to give the name of Hergé to an asteroid discovered in 1953. The date when "Explorers on the moon" first appeared.

April 8th 1982 The "asteroid 1652" located between Mars and Jupiter became "planet Hergé".

February 25th 1983 Hergé is driven to the hospital because of a weakness in his lungs.

March 3rd 1983 around 10 p.m. Hergé dies in the Saint Luc hospital near Brussels

1986 Publication of the last and incomplete adventures of Tintin and Alph'Art.

1987 As Hergé was not going to let Tintin in someone else's hands. His wife fanny decided to create " Fondation Hergé" in the "Studios Hergé".

1988 Inauguration in a Brussels metro station of a huge fresco which shows all the characters of the adventures of Tintin.

1989 Inauguration in the "Centre national de la Bande Dessinée et de l'Image" in Angoulême in France, of the bust of Hergé. The Hergé Fondation creates a whole exposition called "Tintin, 60 ans d'aventures" (Tintin 60 years of adventures) destined to go all over the world.

May 22nd 2007 Moulinsart is celebrating Hergé's 100th birthdayby planning big events. See the programme.