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1858 CE - 1924 CE: Life of the Italian composer Giacomo Puccini.
1858 CE: Giacomo Puccini is born in Lucca, Italy.
1876 CE: Giacomo Puccini hears Giuseppe Verdi's Aida in Pisa and decides to become a composer of operas.
1880 CE: Giacomo Puccini graduates from the Istituto Pacini in Lucca.
1883 CE: Giacomo Puccini's opera Le villi (The Fairies) is staged at the Teatro dal Verme in Milan.
1884 CE: Giacomo Puccini is given a contract by the music publisher Giulio Ricordi.
1886 CE: Giacomo Puccini begins a relationship with Elvira Gemignani.
1889 CE: Giuseppe Verdi's opera Edgar premieres at Milan’s La Scala theatre.
1891 CE: Giacomo Puccini buys a villa in the small town of Torre del Lago near his native Lucca.
1893 CE: Giacomo Puccini's opera Manon Lescaut premieres in Turin.
1896 CE: Giacomo Puccini's opera La Bohème (The Bohemian Girl) premieres at the Teatro Regio in Turin.
1900 CE: Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca premieres at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome.
1904 CE: Giacomo Puccini marries Elvira Gemignani.
1904 CE: Giacomo Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly premieres in La Scala, Milan.
1910 CE: Giacomo Puccini's opera La fanciulla del West (The Girl of the Golden West) premieres at the New York Metropolitan Opera.
1917 CE: Giacomo Puccini's opera La rondine (The Swallow) premieres in Monte Carlo.
1918 CE: Giacomo Puccini's triple opera Il trittico (The Triptych) premieres in New York.
1924 CE: Giacomo Puccini dies of a heart attack in Brussels.
1926 CE: Giacomo Puccini's opera Turandot premieres at La Scala, Milan.